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• The Anarchist Nov 11

  Published: November 12, 2007, 10:02 am

  Tags: Mayday, Anarchists, Haymarket, Labor, Nov 11, May Day, Labour History, Anarchism, Labour

  George Eugel, another of the Haymarket anarchists, "Hurray for Anarchy! This is the happiest moment of my life." The Dramas of Haymarket, an online project produced by the Chicago Historical Society and Northwestern University. The Dramas of Haymarket examines selected materials from the Chicago Historical Society's

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• Chicago History Caught in the Web

  Published: April 25, 2008, 7:30 am

  Tags: Yerkes Observatory, Frank Lloyd Wright, Haymarket, White City, Newberry Library, Chicago History, Old Chicago Postcards, Charles T Yerkes

  Wright On...Everything The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin presents The Mike Wallace Interview of Frank Lloyd Wright. Conducted in two parts in 1957, Wright gives his opinions on a wide variety of topics including religion, art, Louis Sullivan, and the "common man." Wish You Were Here Chicago History in

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• A Pinch of This, A Little of That

  Published: May 1, 2008, 9:35 am

  Tags: History Carnival, Haymarket, Columbian Exposition, Walter Crane, Chicago History

  I'm a bit pressed for time today so, for your reading pleasure... A little Chicago May I...(get it?) May 1, 1893: This Day in Chicago History (World's Columbian Exposition) from A Boat Against the Current May 1st History of International Workers' Day from glabourwriters. Note: the cartoon above is by English artist Walter Crane, who

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• Hell On Earth: Political Cartoonist Art Young

  Published: June 13, 2008, 6:41 am

  Tags: Political Cartoonist, Haymarket Riot, Art Young, Chicago History

  In the rival cities they tell the story of the citizen of Chicago who on dying exclaimed at his first view of the next world: After all, heaven is not so different from Chicago! Excuse me, some one replied, but you are not in heaven. From: America of To-morrow, by Abb F lix Klein (1911) Art Young would have agreed with

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