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Many ened up doing the jobs that Chicagoans didn't want such as digging canals, laying railroad tracks, and heavy lifting.
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First Slum located by Archer Ave and Halsted St.
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50% are American-born
only 22% are immigrants from Ireland -
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The Irish didn't want to free blacks because they feared they might loose their jobs to them.
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This suspension of work caused many men to loose work.
The protestants felt compassion, and decided to help, but the Irish and Germans considered it as " a slap in the face" (61). They were teaching their children the wrong religion, and they missed their bars. They wondered why the Protestants wouldn't simply leave them to determine their own Sabbath. -
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The Irish of the St Mary of Assumption Church sineg the petition so they could get their old preist (Father John Mary Irenaeus St Cyr) back.
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In the following decades brickyards, meatpacking houses, and steel mills started opening.
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7,580 people in Chicago...
10% of those people were irish -
The 'Dukies' and the 'Ragen's Colts'
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20% of the citizens in Chicago were irish-born
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One part of town was all native born citizens, many of them Protestants. The other part included the Irish-Catholics.
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The police found $30,000 in fake bills in his room.
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Levi Boone was the great-newphew of the pioneer Daniel Boone.
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Irish are overrepresented in America's prsons, reform schools, poorhouses, and lunatic asylums.
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The ones who stayed usually worked as shovers.
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They find $285,000 in fake dollars and 21 plates for producing counterfeit bills, plus paper, ink, and everthing else necessary to run a counterfeiting buisness.
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39,988 Chicagoans were born in Ireland
237479 Chicagoan were first- or second-generation Irish Americans -
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"Mike" owns and operates a very succesful, very large gambling parlor known as the Store. Even though he did this, he had immunity by bribing public officials and policeman. He was the head of the democratic party in Chicago. He could basically choose who he wanted to be the mayor. Once they were in office, he would tell them what to do. H chose a Protestsnt named Carter Harrrison.
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The evidence was so overwhelmimg that the only defense strategy was to agrue that Boyd was pressured into doing it.
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"He would steal the body of Abraham Lincoln from its tomb in Springfeild, conceal it in some place safe, and then cut a deal with the governer of Illinois to ransom it. As soon as Ben Boyd was released from jail, Kennally would return the body of the Great Emancipator."
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Charles Francis Adams was a decendant of two U.S. presidents
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