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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Kruger, Loren |
| Title, Analytic | Cold Chicago: Uncivil Modernity, Urban Form, and Performance in the Upstart City |
| Journal Title | TDR: The Drama Review |
| Date of Publication | Fall 2009 |
| Volume ID | 53 |
| Issue ID | 3 |
| Location in Work | 10-36, illustrations |
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| Abstract | In 2004, overshadowed by the opening of the city's Millennium Park, Chicago installed the Haymarket Memorial, a sculpture placed on the location where, on 4 May 1886, anarchist activists addressed a crowd of American socialists and European immigrants from atop a freight wagon. They spoke about political, social, and labor issues and specifically protested assaults on strikers at Cyrus McCormick Jr.'s Harvester plant as well as ongoing police violence funded by McCormick, Marshall Field, Chicago Daily Tribune editor Joseph Medill, and others in Chicago's elite Citizens' Association. As the protest was concluding, a bomb exploded, and in the ensuing panic several policemen and citizens were killed. The author examines how the Haymarket massacre has been "buried and resurrected . . . in performances, politics, and built environments. From Sullivan to Gehry to Chris Ware, from socialist militancy to immigrants' rights, from 19th-century commemorations of the Paris Commune to 21st-century stagings of architectural and political conflicts, Chicago has generated drama in urban theory and practice as well as in theatre." |
| Notes | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Call Number | Digital file (PDF) |
| MKI Terms | Haymarket Affair/ Chicago (Ill.)/ Labor movement/ Labor and laboring classes/ German Americans -- Illinois/ Socialism/ Theater & Drama |