Homicide in Chicago 1870-1930
1886
Haymarket Riot: 7 Police Killed; Anti-unionist sentiment rises.
1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889  

1886: Haymarket Affair



The name refers to a designated meeting place, a square where an open market used to be held near Des Plaines and bordered on Randolf Street, where on May 4, 1886, an historic armed confrontation took place between a group of anarchists and labor activists and more than 170 armed police officers, who had been assembled at the Des Plaines Police Station a half block away in anticipation of a riot.

 

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