Lookingglass delves into Chicago's Eastland disaster via new musical
On the morning of July 25, 1915, just three years after the mighty Titanic met its stunning fate in the North Atlantic and left 1,541 people dead, a far less famous vessel, the S.S. Eastland, rolled over on its side while still docked on the banks of the Chicago River between Clark and LaSalle Streets. The Eastland was filled to bursting with 2,572 people " one of three boats chartered by the Western Electric Company…