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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 3
1886: Strikers, strike-breakers, and police clash at the gates of the McCormick Harvester plant. There are injuries on both sides.
May 2
1908: North Shore communities begin a campaign to raise $20,000 in order to save Ravina Park for orchestral concerts
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
April 30
1909: The complex f institutions which cares for wards of Cook County on the far south side if officaly named “Oak Forest”
April 29
1907: Examination of the municipal budget reveals seven “cow-catchers” on the payrol. All they had caught during the entire year was one horse.
April 28
1900: Chicago begins to assume a holiday apperance as decorations are hung for the Dewey Day celebration on May 1st
April 27
1897: At THe Chicago Orchestra benefit concert in the Auditorium Theatre a grou of Chicagoans in costume dance the minuet from Mozart’s Don Giovanni
April 25
1962: Mayor Richard J. Daley awards the Chicago medal of Merit for the service to the community to Mahalia Jackson
April 22
1913: The Chicago Historical Society sponsors the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birthday of Stephen A. Douglas
April 21
1855: Beer riots on the Nort Side protest the increase in the cost of saloon licenses from $50 to $300/yr.
