The Homeless?
100,000 homeless on the streets of Chicago in the Panic of 1893 after the closing of the World's Columbian Exposition, in the biggest depression in our history. The 100,000 was only the men!
The women and children were put on a train and shipped out to be unloaded and bartered off at each farmland RR station. Until there were none.
The men were claiming their places on the stairs of the Cook County Courthouse, to be inside during one of the coldest of Chicago winters on record. And yes, someone wrote about it.
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| Unemployed men at 563 West Madison Street; Chicago, IL. Source: ICHi-05598. Chicago History Museum. Reproduction of photograph, photographer unknown. Date: 1893 |
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