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Dorothy Day, who was present, wrote: "On Memorial Day, May 30, 1937, police opened fire on a parade of striking steel workers and their families at the gate of the Republic Steel Company, in South Chicago. Fifty people were shot, of whom 10 later died; 100 others were beaten with clubs."
Canadian Firefighters Memorial, Ottawa, dedicated in 2012 [5]; The Halifax Explosion of 6 December 1917 involved a blast and fires which killed more than 2,000 persons. One memorial work was the Halifax Explosion Memorial Sculpture which was located at the Halifax North Memorial Library, itself another memorial to the event.
On August 26, 2018, a fire began early that morning in Chicago's Mexican-American Little Village neighborhood. The fire killed ten children, including six children under the age of 12. [2] The fire is the deadliest residential fire to have occurred in Chicago since 1958. [3]
The fire eventually stopped after burning itself out, which was helped by rain that had started on the night of October 9. The fire killed around 300 people, burned 2,112 acres, and cost $222 million. The fire would spur Chicago and many other cities to enact new building codes to help prevent fires from breaking out and spreading as far. [15]
Chicago: 1948-06-01: Blues musician killed in a robbery on Chicago's South Side: Sol Butler: Chicago: 1954-12-01: African-American NFL player and Olympic long jumper shot at a bar where he worked: Malcolm Lee Beggs: Chicago: 1956-12-10: Actor beaten to death with beer and whisky bottles in hotel room: Murder of Maria Ridulph: Sycamore: 1957-12-03
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The fire was the United States' deadliest blaze since the December 1958 fire at Chicago's Our Lady of the Angels School that killed 95 people. It also marked the second fire in less than a week involving the elderly, following the November 18 disaster that claimed 25 people at the Surfside Hotel in Atlantic City .
All four victims were passengers on a Blue Line train as it was headed into the Forest Park terminal when they were shot shortly before 5:30 a.m., said Forest Park Police Deputy Chief Christopher ...