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Haymarket Square

Price: $15.95
  

Stock #: 850271
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
City: Chicago
State: Illinois (IL)
County: Cook,
Publisher: Max Rigot Selling Co.
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
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Located along west Randolph Street from Des Plaines to north Sangamon Street, 5 city blocks and is lined with produce commission houses. Here the truck gardeners bring in and dispose of their products, the scene during the morning hours being animated in the extreme. The famous Haymarket Riot, in which several policemen were killed by dynamite bombs, occurred here on May 4th, 1868.

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