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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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The Courthouse Ruins
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The ruins of the Courthouse, after the Great Fire of 1871.
Courtesy of "Chicago and Its Makers" (Chicago: Felix Mendelsohn, 1929).
Other images from this year
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