July 14, 2025
Tag: Chicago Sun Times
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The Iroquois Theatre Fire
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Chicago, December 30, 1903. Fire, smoke and chaos caused by fear, killed over six hundred soles today at the new Iroquois Theatre on Randolph Street. That’s the way the lead story in the Chicago Sun-Times began on the morning of December 31, 1903. A grusome story of death and suffering that need not have happened.…
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In 1909, a male and female kidnapping team took Billy Whitla out of school and demanded a $10,000 reward. It’s good that most criminals aren’t smart people. It makes them easy to capture; they were arrested only miles away the next day. The boy was returned to his family, but the story still has a sad ending.