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1870
Ada Kelplay first woman to graduate from law school in 1870
1871
Great Chicago Fire
Montgomery Ward founded
1872
First Black Police Officer
1873
Financial Panic (through 1879)
May Hulett first woman elected to Illinois Bar
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South Water Street from Dearborn Street
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Before the fire wholesale hardware, grocery, spice, sugar and tobacco houses centered here.
Courtesy of "Chicago and Its Makers" (Chicago: Felix Mendelsohn, 1929).
Other images from this year
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