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1877
National Railroad Strikes: The ‘Great Uprising’ in Chicago: thousands armed, 30 dead, 300 wounded
1878
Working Women’s Union No. 1: First Women’s Labor organization in Chicago founded
1879
Art Institute founded
1881
Pullman City opens: Company Town, with 8,000 residents
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A Toboggan Slide at Drexel Boulevard and Forty-fourth Street
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A toboggan slide at Drexel Boulevard and Forty-fourth Street, reviving pleasant memories of a long gone day when tobogganing was great fun and the danger of accidents was hardly considered. The warming house and the skating-pond at the right could only have added to the pleasure.
Courtesy of "Chicago and Its Makers" (Chicago: Felix Mendelsohn, 1929).
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