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    Dec 22, 2011 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  1. Memorial honors fallen firefighters: 'This is sacred ground'

    A year after a roof collapse that killed two Chicago firefighters, more than 100 of their brethren gathered at the fire scene--now a vacant lot--to memorialize them and every other Chicago firefighter who died on this date.
    A year after a roof collapse that killed two Chicago firefighters, more than 100 of their brethren gathered at the fire scene--now a vacant lot--to memorialize them and every other Chicago firefighter who died on this date. Firefighters Corey Ankum, 34,...

    Tags: Fires, Disasters and Accidents, Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice, Human Interest

    2. Dec 18, 2007 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  2. The Chicago stockyards open

    For about a century, the Chicago Stockyards were one of the city's world-famous wonders, visited by princes and maharajahs and almost every tourist. "Not to see the Yards is to miss seeing Chicago," one guidebook noted. Most visitors marveled at the sight of the stock pens stretching as far as the eye could see. Others, from Upton Sinclair to Rudyard Kipling, took darker views. "One cannot stand and watch long," Sinclair wrote in "The Jungle," his 1906 expose of the meatpacking industry, "without beginning to deal in symbols and similes, and hear the hog-squeal of the universe."
    Chicago Tribune
    For about a century, the Chicago Stockyards were one of the city's world-famous wonders, visited by princes and maharajahs and almost every tourist. "Not to see the Yards is to miss seeing Chicago," one guidebook noted. Most visitors marveled at the sight...

    Tags: World War I (1914-1918), Rudyard Kipling, Chicago Tribune, Upton Sinclair, Texas

    3. Jan 13, 2003 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  3. Part 1: The threat to neighborhoods

    Tribune staff reporters
    Twenty years ago, the city of Chicago launched a mission never undertaken before by any major American community. It dispatched teams of architectural experts to examine every last one of the city's buildings -- nearly half a million. Their charge: To...

    Tags: David Garrard, Arts, Metal and Mineral, Demonstration, Crime, Law and Justice

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