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Democratic Convention held in Chicago; Bryan defeated by McKinley in November election
1897
Completion of Chicago Loop
1898
Hull House founded by Jane Addams
Spanish-American War
1899
Cook County Juvenile Court founded
President Hayes’ Open Door Policy
Women’s Christian Temperance Union and Anti-Saloon League founded in Evanston
1900
Chicago has Longest Cable Car Lines and Street Car Lines in the World
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The Haymarket Square on Randolph Street between Halsted and Des Plaines Streets
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In the foreground is the Police Monument by F. Gelert, commemorating the police officers killed in the Haymarket Riot on May 4, 1886. Here farm wagons, drays, peddler carts and street carts jostled another for many generations. Today there is little produce business done here.
Courtesy of "Chicago and Its Makers" (Chicago: Felix Mendelsohn, 1929).
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