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THE statue which stands in the Haymarket, the broad square on Randolph Street extending from Desplaines to Halsted, commemorates an event only second in importance in Chicago’s history to the great fire of 1871. It stands as a mark of that awful night, May 4, 1886, when the mouthings of the anarchists culminated in the hurling of a bomb—the only bomb ever thrown in America—into a squad of police, of whom seven were killed and sixty-six laid low with awful wounds.

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Chicago by day and night
The Pleasure Seeker's Guide to the Paris of America
By Anonymous
Published in 1892
Available from gutenberg.org

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Wednesday 3 May 2023

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1027*1442

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Century:19th, Place:Chicago, Place:Illinois, Remembrance, Statue

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