The Eastland Tragedy: Chicago's Worst disaster
Today, some love for the Second City, on the anniversary of Chicago's worst disaster ever in terms of loss of life. You might think such stories out of our wheelhouse, but as with similar disasters we've written about, e.g., the General Slocum disaster, the R.M.S. Titanic, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, etc it's a tale involving immigrants, issues of […]