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Located in Taylorville, Illinois, and erected in memory of George Franklin Bilyeu (1854–1898) who was killed in Virden, Illinois in 1898 during a United Mine Workers of America confrontation with armed guards who were bringing strike breakers into the Virden mine. The monument is located at the Oak Hill Cemetery, 820 S. Cherokee St ...
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
A contract dispute with the state of Illinois has moved 3,800 IDOT workers to authorize a strike, according to a release from Teamsters Joint Council 25. The local Teamsters unions striking are 26 ...
A monument in the Virden town square commemorates the coal strike of 1898 and the battle of October 12 that was its bitter end. The monument contains a large bronze bas-relief that includes the names of those killed in the battle, and a copy of a recruiting handbill distributed by the Chicago-Virden Company in Birmingham, Alabama , to recruit ...
The 1917 Bloomington Streetcar Strike was a labor dispute starting on May 28, 1917 when ATU Local 752 called a strike for union recognition, increased pay, and a shortened workday. Facing a strike, Bloomington & Normal Street Railway & Light offered a 20¢ a day increase before the strike but refused to give union recognition, [2] so the union ...
(The Center Square) – Whether Illinois should be enjoined from enforcing the state’s gun and magazine ban starting Monday is now up to a federal appeals court. Illinois enacted the Protect ...
A player achieving a spare is awarded ten points, plus a bonus of whatever is scored with the next ball (only the first ball is counted). It is typically rendered as a slash on score sheets in place of the second pin count for a frame. Example: Frame 1, ball 1: 7 pins Frame 1, ball 2: 3 pins (spare) Frame 2, ball 1: 4 pins Frame 2, ball 2: 2 pins