The Great Chicago Beer Riot: How Lager Struck a Blow for Liberty

by John F. Hogan and Judy E. Brady

Book Overview

In 1855, when Chicago's recently elected mayor Levi Boone pushed through a law forbidding the sale of alcohol on Sunday, the city pushed back. To the German community, the move seemed a deliberate provocation from Boone's stridently anti-immigrant Know-Nothing Party. Beer formed the centerpiece of German Sunday gatherings, and robbing them of it on their only day off was a slap in the face. On April 21, 1855, an armed mob poured across the Clark Street...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467118907
• ISBN13: 9781467118903
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"