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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.