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1912
Official "Closing" of the Levee District
Socialist Party candidate Eugene V. Debs runs for President
1914
World War I begins
1915
Black Lawyers Association founded
City Population doubles: Total population reaches 2,448,426
Cook County Bar Association founded
First Black Alderman elected
1916
Great Migration of American Blacks to city
1917
United States declares war against Germany and Japan
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Group Portrait of the Funkhauser Moving Picture Censorship Group
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Group portrait of Samuel A. Bloch and Miss Katherine F. Birmingham standing, with Miss Florence B. Kirk, Miss Eva Loeb, Miss C. F. Karr, and Miss Christine Field sitting in front of them in a room in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Funkhauser moving picture censorship group, which advocated censoring moving pictures.
Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society.
Other images from this year
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