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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
1920
U.S. Prohibition begins January 16
1921
19th Amendment (U.S. Constitution): Women attain the Right to Vote
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State and Madison Streets, The Busiest Corner in the World, on Armistice Day
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The clock indicates that the picture was taken at the moment when the great throng stood uncovered facing east in honor of those who fell in the World War. It is a far cry from the day in 1857 when James H. McVicker opened his first theatre on Madison Street between State and Dearborn Streets; and still a farther in the misty past is the day in 1845 when Chicago's first public school was opened on the site of the Boston Store, then in School District Number 1. In 1857 Nicholson pavement had not been laid in these main travelled roads.
Courtesy of "Chicago and Its Makers" (Chicago: Felix Mendelsohn, 1929).
Other images from this year
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