Note: The following is adapted from the author’s forthcoming book, Injustices: The Supreme Court’s Nearly Unbroken History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted. In 1894, Chicago was the Midwest’s gateway to the rest of the United States. Twenty-four different railroad lines centered or terminated in Chicago, covering the nation in over forty thousand miles of rail.
The True Story Of How One Man Shut Down American Commerce To Avoid Paying His Workers A Fair Wage
Ian Millhiser, Think Progress
Mon, 09/01/2014 - 6:20am
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