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April 30
1909: The complex f institutions which cares for wards of Cook County on the far south side if officaly named “Oak Forest”
May 1
1893: President Grover Cleveland presses an electric key, a drape falls from the statue of Columbua, wheels turn in the Machenery Hall, and the World’s Columbian Exposition is offically open
May 2
1908: North Shore communities begin a campaign to raise $20,000 in order to save Ravina Park for orchestral concerts
May 3
1886: Strikers, strike-breakers, and police clash at the gates of the McCormick Harvester plant. There are injuries on both sides.
May 4
1886: In The Course of a stricke-related confornation between workers & police, a bomb explsed in Haymarket Sqaure, keaving 7 polcemen fatally wounded.
May 5
1909: Fernando Jones, 89, Chicago’s most clebrated pioneer of the time, is overcome by the day’s heat after the old settler’s reunion. His condidition is not serious
May 6
1899: Police Storm “Stretterville” and arresr Captain George Wellington Streeter who had claimed squatter’s rights to the lakeshore strip.
May 7
1899: St. Ansgarius Swedish Epsicocpal Church, celebrates its 50th anniversary. It had been the first Swedish church established in the city.
May 9
1908: The City Council announces that the demolition of City Hall will begin no later then Aug. 1 and that a new building will be ready by Nov. 1, 1910
May 11
1899: The city’s first public golf course is offically opened in Jackson Park by President Joseph Donnersberger of The South Park Commission
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May 13
1908: In an inverview in Chicago, Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans of Spanish Chicago-American War fame advocates building a navy of 48 battleships.
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