Chicago

Illinois city · founded 1833 · northeastern Illinois, Lake Michigan shore
Chicago is Illinois's largest city, site of major labor conflicts, the 1871 Great Fire, and the violent 1968 Democratic Convention.
The kit
- Great Fire — Chicago suffered a Great Fire in October 1871 allegedly started by Mrs. O'Leary's cow knocking over a lantern.
- Violence & crime — Chicago was the site of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre targeting Bugs Moran's gang and the 1919 race riot after Eugene Williams's death.
- Political events — Chicago hosted the 1968 Democratic National Convention where police used "Gestapo tactics" against protesters including the Chicago Seven.
- Social reform — Chicago was home to Jane Addams's Hull House settlement and the setting of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle about meatpacking.
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The ladder · 15 clues
A fire in this city may have been started by Mrs. O’Leary’s cow.
The role of the environment in the development of this city was analyzed in William Cronon’s book Nature’s Metropolis.
This city’s “Inter Ocean” paper was bought by Charles Yerkes during his fight to control its streetcars.
Operation Greylord, an investigation into the judiciary of this city, resulted in the conviction of fifteen judges for corruption.
In addition to that event near the McCormick factory, an event in this city saw Pigasus the Pig nominated for President by people like Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman.
A 1919 race riot broke out in this city after Eugene Williams was killed while swimming on an unofficially segregated beach.
During a different event held in this city, demonstrators originated the phrase “the whole world is watching,” which they chanted while being beaten by police.
In this city, members of Bugs Moran's gang were killed in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
Robert S. Abbott started this city’s Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic and founded the Defender newspaper.
One venture here, co-founded by Ellen Gates Starr, was Jane Addams’ Hull House, and its namesake “Seven” violently protested the 1968 Democratic Convention.
This city’s Humboldt Park is the setting of The House on Mango Street.
A building in this city called the Wigwam hosted the 1860 Republican National Convention.
This city’s police force used “Gestapo tactics” according to a speaker at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, which this city hosted.
The Louisa Luetgert murder took place in this city, the center of the meatpacking industry and the setting of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.
According to legend, Mrs. O’Leary’s cow knocking over a lantern caused a Great Fire in October 1871 in this city. name this home of the Tribune, the largest city in Illinois.
10 more clues from the record
Anton Cermak, the mayor of this city, was killed in Miami in 1933 by Giuseppe Zangara in a failed assassination attempt on the newly-inaugurated Franklin D. Roosevelt.
A leader of the North Side Gang, Bugs Moran, was killed in this city during the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.
This city's namesake university was established in 1890 in its Hyde Park neighborhood, while older colleges and universities in and around the city include DePaul, in the Lincoln Park neighborhood, and Northwestern, in nearby Evanston.
An event that started in this city was undermined by Richard Olney's injunctions.
In 1993, this city's Hyde Park neighborhood supported Carol Moseley Braun for US senator. name this Midwest city where Barack Obama served as a voter organizer.
This city’s “Council Wars” occurred when a faction of its Democratic Party split off to oppose Harold Washington, its first black mayor.
This city’s second African-American alderman, Louis B. Anderson, succeeded the first, Oscar Stanton De Priest, who was defended from graft by Clarence Darrow.
This city’s sewers, sometimes named for their designer, Ellis S. Chesbrough, involved building a Gothic Revival water tower and raising this city’s buildings by as much as ten feet.
Governor John Altgeld pardoned three people involved in a conflict in this city, but he was unable to save August Spies [spees].
Experienced a massive race riot in July in what Midwestern city?

























































































