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

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

3. 1860  Lady Elgin sinks, and Milwaukee loses important people who would have helped that city compete against us

4. 1871: Great Chicago Fire 1874: 2 nd fire south of Loop

5. 1886: Haymarket Riot 1887: Hanging of “martyrs”

6. 1890s at the fair…  Holmes murders— lime pits, acid vats, etc

7. 1894: Pullman Strike

8. 1897: Leutgert, the sausage man

9. 1903: Iroquois Theater Fire kills 603

10. 1915: Eastland disaster

11. 1919: Race Riot

12. ALSO 1919: “Black Sox” scandal, flu epidemic

13. 1920: tornado, 28 dead

14. 1924: Leopold and Loeb kill 14 year old Bobby Franks

15. 1929: St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, Stock Market Crash

16. 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

17. 1937: Republic Steel Strike

18. 1953: polio epidemic

19. 1958: Our Lady of the Angels School fire

20. 1966  Puerto Rican riots  Race issues  Richard Speck kills nurses

21. 1968  anti-Vietnam protests/riots  race riots following King assassination

22. 1969  Black Panther raid

23. 1977  L train falls off the track—11 people dead

24. 1979  Flight 191 crash  Blizzard

25. 1980: John Wayne Gacy found guilty of 33 murders

26. 1982: Tylenol deaths

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

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