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Irish come to America looking for opportunity
Many ened up doing the jobs that Chicagoans didn't want such as digging canals, laying railroad tracks, and heavy lifting. -
Irish create the first slum in Chicago
First Slum located by Archer Ave and Halsted St. -
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Counterfeiters arrested in New York City
50% are American-born
only 22% are immigrants from Ireland -
John Augustine believes he stole the skull of George Washington
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Nelson Driggs runs a general store in Ohio
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8 day riot in New York City
The Irish didn't want to free blacks because they feared they might loose their jobs to them. -
Work on the Illinois and Michigan Canal is suspended
This suspension of work caused many men to loose work.
The protestants felt compassion, and decided to help, but the Irish and Germans considered it as " a slap in the face" (61). They were teaching their children the wrong religion, and they missed their bars. They wondered why the Protestants wouldn't simply leave them to determine their own Sabbath. -
Irish population in Chicago is consideralby large
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Petition signed to revoke a decree
The Irish of the St Mary of Assumption Church sineg the petition so they could get their old preist (Father John Mary Irenaeus St Cyr) back. -
Slaughterhouses start opening
In the following decades brickyards, meatpacking houses, and steel mills started opening. -
Irish population continuosly increasing
7,580 people in Chicago...
10% of those people were irish -
Steet gangs started forming
The 'Dukies' and the 'Ragen's Colts' -
Famine Irish flee to America to escape starvation
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Parish of Holy Name is founded for poor immagrants
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Irish population continuosly increasing
20% of the citizens in Chicago were irish-born -
Chicago is polarized
One part of town was all native born citizens, many of them Protestants. The other part included the Irish-Catholics. -
Driggs turns over his store to relatives
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Driggs is arrested for counterfeiting
The police found $30,000 in fake bills in his room. -
Protestant voters elect Levi Boone as the mayor.
Levi Boone was the great-newphew of the pioneer Daniel Boone. -
Irish are overrepresented in America's prisons, etc.
Irish are overrepresented in America's prsons, reform schools, poorhouses, and lunatic asylums. -
49/107 cops on the police force are Irish
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The number of Irish counterfeiters starts to decrease
The ones who stayed usually worked as shovers. -
St. Louis police raid John Roe's house after he teams up with Driggs
They find $285,000 in fake dollars and 21 plates for producing counterfeit bills, plus paper, ink, and everthing else necessary to run a counterfeiting buisness. -
Irish population continuosly increasing
39,988 Chicagoans were born in Ireland
237479 Chicagoan were first- or second-generation Irish Americans -
Driggs begins working with Benjamin Boyd
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The Store brings in $100,000 in profits in the 1872-1873 fiscal year
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Chicago's top crime boss is Michael Cassisus McDonald
"Mike" owns and operates a very succesful, very large gambling parlor known as the Store. Even though he did this, he had immunity by bribing public officials and policeman. He was the head of the democratic party in Chicago. He could basically choose who he wanted to be the mayor. Once they were in office, he would tell them what to do. H chose a Protestsnt named Carter Harrrison. -
The Feds spring thier trap to catch Driggs and Boyd
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The Feds set up their trap to catch Boyd and Driggs
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Tyrell visits Driggs in jail to discuss deals
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Tyrrell's first daily report as the new chief operative
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Boyd's trial begins
The evidence was so overwhelmimg that the only defense strategy was to agrue that Boyd was pressured into doing it. -
Driggs admitted to the state penitentiary in Joliet
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Kennally devises plan to steal Lincoln's Body
"He would steal the body of Abraham Lincoln from its tomb in Springfeild, conceal it in some place safe, and then cut a deal with the governer of Illinois to ransom it. As soon as Ben Boyd was released from jail, Kennally would return the body of the Great Emancipator." -
Boyd admitted to the state penitentiary in Joliet
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Sharp, Splain, the two Foxes, and Sheridan move to Springfield
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"Red Jimmy" Fitzgerald bamboozles $7,000 from Charles Francis Adams
Charles Francis Adams was a decendant of two U.S. presidents -
Edward "Foxy Ed" Cullerton wins nominations from both the Democarats and the Republicans
