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Striking steelworkers were clubbed, gassed and shot dead while marching across a prairie to the Republic Steel Mill on Chicago's Southeast Side in what became forever known as the Memorial
Community organizing was born in Chicago, so it's a surprise that it took so long for an organizer to become mayor.
Eighty-five years later, the dead are still remembered.
Daniel J. Leab looks at the different accounts of The Memorial Day Massacre, an incident in 1937 in which Chicago police killed 10 strikers.