Tribune reports the debates in full.įour horse-drawn streetcars - the city’s first - travel the rails from Lake to 12th Streets on State Street.ġ860s May 18, 1860: Abraham Lincoln nominated for president Matthew Pinsker describes the June 27 letter to the Tribune as “the angriest, nastiest written statement Lincoln ever produced (at least as far as we know).”įirst of seven Lincoln-Douglas debates. Lincoln scholar and Dickinson College professor Dr. Ray, the editor-in-chief of the Chicago Press & Tribune, then in business for only 11 years. “How, in God’s name, do you let such paragraphs into the Tribune?” he furiously scribbled in Springfield on June 27, 1858, firing off a gruff note to Charles H. ‘Poisonous thorns’: The times Abraham Lincoln got mad - like, really mad - at the Chicago Tribune. The city buys its first steam fire engine - nicknamed “Ye Great Skwirt Long John” after Mayor Long John Wentworth.
Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision sharpens divisions on slavery. Twelve years later, the company buys the Tribune’s share and begins printing railroad tickets and timetables. William Rand cofounds what would become Rand McNally’s first print shop with the Chicago Tribune on Chicago’s Lake Street. The party’s candidate, Levi Boone, was then elected as Mayor of Chicago in March.Ĭhicago begins project to raise streets (and buildings) out of muck completion takes decades.
In 1855, the Chicago Tribune formally decided to affiliate with the nativist American or Know Nothing party. By 1853, Roman Catholics and foreign citizens were frequently criticized in xenophobic editorials, and the newspaper also became a strong supporter of temperance. Daily circulation grew from about 1,400 copies in 1855 to as high as 40,000 during the Civil War, when the paper was a strong supporter of President Lincoln and emancipation. The Chicago Daily Tribune was transformed by the arrival in 1855 of editor and co-owner Joseph Medill, who turned the paper into one of the leading voices of the new Republican Party. McCormick Research Center) June 18, 1855: Joseph Medill and partners buy Tribune John, New Brunswick, and grew up in rural Ohio, would spend the rest of his life building the foundations of one of America's major newspapers. Joseph Medill in 1855, when he left Cleveland and formed a partnership to buy the struggling Tribune. He would later introduce the Department motto: “At danger’s call, we’ll promptly fly and bravely do or bravely die.” It is considered Chicago’s first civil disturbance.Ĭyrus Bradley is appointed as Chief of Police and serves in that position until 1856.
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One person is killed and 60 more are arrested during the Lager Beer Riot, which protests a 600 percent increase in tavern license fees and Sunday closings.
The Rock Island Railroad connects Chicago to Lockport and the Mississippi River. The first direct train from the East arrives on the Michigan Southern and Indiana Northern Railroad.Ĭonstable James Quinn becomes the first Chicago police officer to be killed in the line of duty, but this recognition would not be honored until March 2, 2010.Ĭholera epidemic in Chicago intensifies eventually claims 1,424 victims. The school opens four years later in Evanston.
The charter for Northwestern University is passed by the Illinois General Assembly. The city’s first public water board is organized to handle recurring cholera epidemics. Gas lamps light Chicago streets for the first time and the city planks 6.7 miles of streets, including 12,000 feet of State Street.Īllan Pinkerton opens his detective agency.
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