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1905
Mayor cleans up Old Custom House; over 200 houses of prostitution closed
Municipal Court of Chicago created
1906
Upton Sinclair’s exposé, “The Jungle” published
1908
Chicago has 1 million immigrants
1909
Burnham Plan for Chicago
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Brendecke Hospital
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View of the Brendecke Hospital (a maternity home) with Mrs. Mary Brendecke sitting on a side porch toward the back of the building which was located at 1016 West Adams Street (formerly 279 West Adams Street) in the Near West Side community area of Chicago, Illinois. Mrs. Emma Brendecke was accused of burning, in a stove, some infants born at the maternity home.
Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society.
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