Good morning, Chicago. Here are some highlights from the Chicago Tribune's archives in honor of the newspaper's 175th anniversary.
The Illinois state militia was called in to quell the violence on the South Side of Chicago during the race riots in the summer of 1919.Between 1915 and 1920, Black Southerners were arriving in Chicago at a rate as high as 100,000 in one year, heeding the Chicago Defender’s call of the “promised land.” But as the city’s Black population grew, it was repeatedly relegated to run-down neighborhoods.
Then Black teenager Eugene Williams drowned after crossing an imaginary line dividing the races while rafting on Lake Michigan in July 1919. Some 6,000 National Guard troops were deployed to the ensuing riot, and 23 Black people and 15 white people were killed.The flu epidemic of 1918 killed 548,452 Americans. The death toll across the world was 21 million.
But authorities were slow to acknowledge the looming disaster. On Sept. 21, the commanding officer of Great Lakes issued a statement reassuring worried relatives that “we have only 800 cases” among the base’s 45,000 sailors. A few days later, the Tribune editorially discounted “the so-called influenza epidemic.”
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