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  2. R+L Carriers - Wikipedia

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    R+L Carriers is a privately owned American freightshipping company based in Wilmington, Ohio, which grew over the course of 50 years from one truck to a fleet of 21,000 tractors and trailers. [1] The company serves all 48 contiguous American states plus Canada , Puerto Rico , the U.S. Virgin Islands , and the Dominican Republic .

  3. List of incidents of civil unrest in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Pullman Strike - Began on May 11, 1894, after workers for the Pullman Company began strike after a reduction in wages. The strike spread nationwide and shut down most railroad traffic west of Detroit. The strike lasted several months and 30 strikers were killed in various riots and clashes with government forces. 30 57

  4. Frank Fitzsimmons - Wikipedia

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    He further increased his popularity by negotiating in October 1967 a national master contract in the trucking industry that brought 40,000 Northeastern truckers into the contract for the first time and by negotiating a new contract that ended a five-month steel haulers' strike. [17] Fitzsimmons also began taking the union in new directions.

  5. Union violence in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The militia responsible for the shootings was mobilized by Reading Railroad management, not by local public officials. [14] Chicago was paralyzed when angry mobs of unemployed citizens wreaked havoc in the rail yards. The strike was eventually suppressed by thousands of vigilantes, National Guard, and federal troops.

  6. List of US strikes by size - Wikipedia

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    1972 Chicago builders strike: 1972 Chicago: 70,000 [58] Southern California supermarket strike of 2003–2004: 2003–2004 Southern California: 70,000 [59] 1951 rail strike: 1951 nationwide 73,000 2007 General Motors strike: 2007 Detroit, Michigan: 72,000 [60] 1960 Pennsylvania Railroad Co. strike: 1960 68,000-85,000 New England Textile Strike ...

  7. Ralph Yarl's family speaks out, said race played a factor in ...

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    The 86-year-old man had been facing charges of first-degree assault and armed criminal action in the shooting of then-16-year-old Yarl, a Black honors student who mistakenly showed up at Lester ...

  8. Chicago police release photos of suspect wanted in killing of ...

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    Just before 3 a.m. Sunday, Chicago police responded to a “gunshot detection alert” in the 5500 block of South Kedzie Avenue and discovered Huesca, a 30-year-old with the CPD for six years ...

  9. Chicago shooting - Wikipedia

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    Chicago shooting or Chicago massacre may refer to: Haymarket affair; Chicago race riot of 1919, a racial conflict between White-Americans and African-Americans, that killed 38 people (23 of whom were Black and 15 were White) Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, a gang shooting in February 1929 that killed seven people at Lincoln Park