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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
1918
Spanish Flu Epidemic: 8,500 deaths in Chicago
World War I Armistice
1919
Al Capone moves to Chicago
Chicago Race Riot
Illinois ratifies 18th Amendment and passes State prohibition statutes
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Health Commissioner Examining Phials of Poison
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Image of City of Chicago Health Commissioner Dr. John Dill Robertson examining phials of poisons in anarchist Jean Crones' room at 22nd Street and Prairie Avenue in the Near South Side community area of Chicago, Illinois. Crones was an assistant chef at the University Club, and disappeared after 100 banquet attendees at a reception for Archbishop Mundelein were poisoned with arsenic.
Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society.
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