TOPIC 6: TRAGEDIES AND CRIMES  1812—Fort Dearborn Massacre of settlers by natives

Early Chicago was pretty wild….  1840—first murderer hanged  1855—Lager Beer Riots

1860  Lady Elgin sinks, and Milwaukee loses important people who would have helped that city compete against us

1871: Great Chicago Fire 1874: 2 nd fire south of Loop

1886: Haymarket Riot 1887: Hanging of “martyrs”

1890s at the fair…  Holmes murders— lime pits, acid vats, etc

1894: Pullman Strike

1897: Leutgert, the sausage man

1903: Iroquois Theater Fire kills 603

1915: Eastland disaster

1919: Race Riot

ALSO 1919: “Black Sox” scandal, flu epidemic

1920: tornado, 28 dead

1924: Leopold and Loeb kill 14 year old Bobby Franks

1929: St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, Stock Market Crash

Lots of shootings…  1930: Lingle shot in subway  1933: Mayor Cermak shot in Miami—bullet had been meant for President FDR  1934: Dillinger shot by Biograph Theater

1937: Republic Steel Strike

1953: polio epidemic

1958: Our Lady of the Angels School fire

1966  Puerto Rican riots  Race issues  Richard Speck kills nurses

1968  anti-Vietnam protests/riots  race riots following King assassination

1969  Black Panther raid

1977  L train falls off the track—11 people dead

1979  Flight 191 crash  Blizzard

1980: John Wayne Gacy found guilty of 33 murders

1982: Tylenol deaths

Almost done….  1983: Operation Greylord uncovers bribery scandals  1988: Laurie Dann opens fire in a school in Winnetka  1990: Plainfield tornado

And finally…  1992: Chicago flood, killing of Dantrell Davis  1995—death row probe