Alyssa Dyksterhouse, Chicago tour guide, history lover and research extraordinaire, walks her friends through her favorite well-known and lesser-known moments in Chicago’s quirky past while exploring each story's parallels to current affairs.
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Alyssa Dyksterhouse, Chicago tour guide, history lover and research extraordinaire, walks her friends through her favorite well-known and lesser-known moments in Chicago’s quirky past while exploring each story's parallels to current affairs.
Happy Labor Day. In this episode Alyssa tells Molly McAleer about the Haymarket Affair and the origin of the 8-hour work day.
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Show Notes:
Illinois Labor History Society: The Haymarket Affair Encyclopedia of Chicago History: Haymarket and May Day
WTTW: HAYMARKET AFFAIR HANGINGS
Britannica: Haymarket Affair
WCCO: Good Question: How did we get the 8-hour work day?
Chicago Cop: HAYMARKET SQUARE RIOT
Chicago Sun-Times: Haymarket blast shook the world - 100 years later, Chicago remembered
Chicago Reader: Haymarket Revisited
Chicago Tribune: HAYMARKET RIOT REMEMBERED
PBS: The Anarchists and the Haymarket Square Incident
Second City Sinners
Chicago Tribune: STILL-HEARD VOICES: HAYMARKET MONUMENT GETS LANDMARK STATUS
CPD: Haymarket Statue Rededication Ceremony at Police Headquarters
The Haymarket Memorial
Chicago Tribune: SITE OF HAYMARKET RIOT PROPOSED FOR LABOR PARK
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Oh, Malort!
Alyssa Dyksterhouse, Chicago tour guide, history lover and research extraordinaire, walks her friends through her favorite well-known and lesser-known moments in Chicago’s quirky past while exploring each story's parallels to current affairs.
