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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 Livestock Pavilion at Halsted and 42nd Streets
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Here, at the Annual Stock Show 150,000 farmers come from all over America to participate in the yearly exposition.
Courtesy of "Chicago and Its Makers" (Chicago: Felix Mendelsohn, 1929).
Other images from this year
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