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List of historical sites related to the Illinois labor movement

Index List of historical sites related to the Illinois labor movement

The following are historic points of labor history in the state of Illinois. [1]

104 relations: AFL–CIO, Albert Parsons, Albert Weinert, Allan Pinkerton, Alton Railroad, Alton, Illinois, American Federation of Labor, American Federation of Teachers, Backshop, Battle of Virden, Belleville, Illinois, Big Muddy River, Bloomington High School (Bloomington, Illinois), Bloomington, Illinois, Braidwood, Illinois, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Caboose, Centralia, Illinois, Champaign County, Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, Chatham, Illinois, Chicago, Chicago Federation of Labor, Chicago River, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, Cigar Makers' International Union, Congress of Industrial Organizations, Cyrus McCormick, Decatur, Illinois, Diamond, Illinois, Dodds Park, Eight-hour day, Forest Park, Illinois, Frances Perkins, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Galesburg, Illinois, George Pullman, Haymarket affair, Hull House, Illinois, Illinois Central Railroad, Illinois Labor History Society, Illinois River, Industrial Workers of the World, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Irish language, Ironworker, Jacksonville, Illinois, Jane Addams, ..., John Brown Lennon, John L. Lewis, John Peter Altgeld, Joliet, Illinois, La Marseillaise, Labor history of the United States, Laborer, Landing Ship, Tank, Lane Kirkland, Liberty (goddess), Lucy Parsons, Margaret Haley, Marianne, Marissa, Illinois, Mary Harris Jones, Memorial Day, Memorial Day massacre of 1937, Mount Olive, Illinois, Moweaqua, Illinois, Murphysboro, Illinois, National Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Places, New Orleans, New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, Norfolk Southern Railway, Normal, Illinois, Oberlin College, Order of Railway Conductors, Panama, Illinois, Peoria, Illinois, Philip Danforth Armour, Pontiac Correctional Center, Pontiac, Illinois, Portage Park, Chicago, Pullman Strike, Roxana, Illinois, Samuel Gompers, Scranton, Pennsylvania, Southern Pacific Transportation Company, Spring Valley, Illinois, Springfield, Illinois, Taylorville, Illinois, Temperance movement, Union Pacific Railroad, United Mine Workers, United Steelworkers, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Washington, D.C., West Frankfort, Illinois, Workers' Memorial Day, World War I, 1909 Cherry Mine disaster, 1932 Moweaqua Coal Mine disaster, 1947 Centralia mine disaster. Expand index (54 more) »

AFL–CIO

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is the largest federation of unions in the United States.

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Albert Parsons

Albert Richard Parsons (1848–1887) was a pioneer American socialist and later anarchist newspaper editor, orator, and labor activist.

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Albert Weinert

Albert Weinert American sculptor (June 13, 1863 - November 29, 1947) Born in Leipzig, Germany, Weinert attended the Royal Academy there and then the École des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Belgium.

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Allan Pinkerton

Allan J. Pinkerton (25 August 1819 – 1 July 1884) was a Scottish American detective and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.

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Alton Railroad

The Alton Railroad was the final name of a railroad linking Chicago to Alton, Illinois, St. Louis, Missouri, and Kansas City, Missouri.

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Alton, Illinois

Alton is a city on the Mississippi River in Madison County, Illinois, United States, about north of St. Louis, Missouri.

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American Federation of Labor

The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was a national federation of labor unions in the United States founded in Columbus, Ohio, in December 1886 by an alliance of craft unions disaffected from the Knights of Labor, a national labor union.

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American Federation of Teachers

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is an American labor union that primarily represents teachers.

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Backshop

A backshop or back-shop is a specialized store or workshop found in service industries, such as locomotive and aircraft repair.

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Battle of Virden

The Battle of Virden, also known as the Virden Massacre, was a labor union conflict in southern Illinois that occurred on October 12, 1898.

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Belleville, Illinois

Belleville (French: Belle ville, meaning "Beautiful city") is a city in St. Clair County, Illinois, coterminous with the now defunct Belleville Township.

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Big Muddy River

The Big Muddy River is a river in southern Illinois.

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Bloomington High School (Bloomington, Illinois)

Bloomington High School (BHS) is a public secondary school in Bloomington, Illinois, and is part of Bloomington School District 87.

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Bloomington, Illinois

Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of McLean County, Illinois, United States.

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Braidwood, Illinois

Braidwood is a city in Will County, Illinois, United States, approximately southwest of Chicago and south of Joliet.

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Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen

The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (BRT) was a labor organization for railroad employees founded in 1883.

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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) was, in 1925, the first labor organization led by African Americans to receive a charter in the American Federation of Labor (AFL).

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Caboose

A caboose is a manned North American railroad car coupled at the end of a freight train.

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Centralia, Illinois

Centralia is a city in Clinton, Jefferson, Marion, and Washington counties in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Champaign County, Illinois

Champaign County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Champaign, Illinois

Champaign is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, United States.

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Chatham, Illinois

Chatham is a village in Sangamon County, Illinois, United States.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Chicago Federation of Labor

The Chicago Federation of Labor (CFL) is an umbrella organization for unions in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

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Chicago River

The Chicago River is a system of rivers and canals with a combined length of that runs through the city of Chicago, including its center (the Chicago Loop).

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Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad

The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad was a railroad that operated in the Midwestern United States.

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Cigar Makers' International Union

The Journeymen Cigar Makers' International Union of America (CMIU) was a labor union established in 1864 that represented workers in the cigar industry.

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Congress of Industrial Organizations

The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955.

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Cyrus McCormick

Cyrus Hall McCormick (February 15, 1809 – May 13, 1884) was an American inventor and businessman who founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which later became part of the International Harvester Company in 1902.

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Decatur, Illinois

Decatur is the largest city and the county seat of Macon County in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Diamond, Illinois

Diamond is a village in Grundy and Will Counties, Illinois.

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Dodds Park

Dodds Park is located in northwestern Champaign, Illinois near Parkland College.

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Eight-hour day

The eight-hour day movement or 40-hour week movement, also known as the short-time movement, was a social movement to regulate the length of a working day, preventing excesses and abuses.

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Forest Park, Illinois

Forest Park (formerly Harlem) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, United States.

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Frances Perkins

Frances Perkins (born Fannie Coralie Perkins; April 10, 1880 – May 14, 1965) was an American sociologist and workers-rights advocate who served as the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sr. (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

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Galesburg, Illinois

Galesburg is a city in Knox County, Illinois, United States.

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George Pullman

George Mortimer Pullman (March 3, 1831 – October 19, 1897) was an American engineer and industrialist.

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Haymarket affair

The Haymarket affair (also known as the Haymarket massacre or Haymarket riot) was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday, May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago.

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Hull House

Hull House was a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Illinois Central Railroad

The Illinois Central Railroad, sometimes called the Main Line of Mid-America, was a railroad in the central United States, with its primary routes connecting Chicago, Illinois, with New Orleans, Louisiana, and Mobile, Alabama.

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Illinois Labor History Society

The Illinois Labor History Society is a nonprofit educational organization founded in 1969.

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Illinois River

The Illinois River (Miami-Illinois language: Inoka Siipiiwi) is a principal tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately long, in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Industrial Workers of the World

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), members of which are commonly termed "Wobblies", is an international labor union that was founded in 1905 in Chicago, Illinois in the United States of America.

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International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) is a labor union that represents nearly 750,000 workers and retirees in the electrical industry in the United States, Canada, Panama, Guam, and several Caribbean island nations; particularly electricians, or inside wiremen, in the construction industry and linemen and other employees of public utilities.

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Irish language

The Irish language (Gaeilge), also referred to as the Gaelic or the Irish Gaelic language, is a Goidelic language (Gaelic) of the Indo-European language family originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people.

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Ironworker

An ironworker is the American term for a tradesman who works in the ironworking industry.

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Jacksonville, Illinois

Jacksonville is a city in Morgan County, Illinois, United States.

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Jane Addams

Jane Addams (September 8, 1860May 21, 1935), known as the "mother" of social work, was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, public administrator, protestor, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace.

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John Brown Lennon

John Brown Lennon (October 12, 1850 - January 18, 1923) was an American labor union leader and general-secretary of the Journeyman Tailors Union of America (JTU).

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John L. Lewis

John Llewellyn Lewis (February 12, 1880 – June 11, 1969) was an American leader of organized labor who served as president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) from 1920 to 1960.

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John Peter Altgeld

John Peter Altgeld (December 30, 1847 – March 12, 1902) was an American politician and the 20th Governor of Illinois, serving from 1893 until 1897.

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Joliet, Illinois

Joliet is a city in Will and Kendall counties in the U.S. state of Illinois, southwest of Chicago.

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La Marseillaise

"La Marseillaise" is the national anthem of France.

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Labor history of the United States

The labor history of the United States describes the history of organized labor, US labor law, and more general history of working people, in the United States.

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Laborer

A laborer is a person who works in one of the construction trades, by tradition, considered unskilled manual labor or mansion —though in practice the laborers are a skilled trade that has reliability and strength as core characteristics.

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Landing Ship, Tank

Landing Ship, Tank (LST), or tank landing ship, is the naval designation for ships built during World War II to support amphibious operations by carrying tanks, vehicles, cargo, and landing troops directly onto shore with no docks or piers.

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Lane Kirkland

Joseph Lane Kirkland (March 12, 1922 – August 14, 1999) was a US labor union leader who served as President of the AFL-CIO for over sixteen years.

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Liberty (goddess)

Liberty is a loose term in English for the goddess or personification of the concept of liberty, and is represented by the Roman Goddess Libertas, by Marianne, the national symbol of France, and by many others.

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Lucy Parsons

Lucy Eldine Gonzalez Parsons (– March 7, 1942) was an American labor organizer, radical socialist and anarchist communist.

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Margaret Haley

Margaret A. Haley (November 15, 1861 – January 5, 1939) was a teacher, unionist, and Georgist land value tax activist, who was dubbed the "lady labor slugger".

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Marianne

Marianne is a national symbol of the French Republic, a personification of liberty and reason, and a portrayal of the Goddess of Liberty.

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Marissa, Illinois

Marissa is a village in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States.

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Mary Harris Jones

Mary G. Harris Jones (baptized 1837; died 1930), known as Mother Jones, was an Irish-born American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent organized labor representative and community organizer.

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Memorial Day

Memorial Day or Decoration Day is a federal holiday in the United States for remembering the people who died while serving in the country's armed forces.

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Memorial Day massacre of 1937

In the Memorial Day massacre of 1937, the Chicago Police Department shot and killed ten unarmed demonstrators in Chicago, on May 30, 1937.

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Mount Olive, Illinois

Mount Olive is a city in Macoupin County, Illinois, United States.

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Moweaqua, Illinois

Moweaqua is a city in Shelby and Christian counties, Illinois, United States.

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Murphysboro, Illinois

Murphysboro is a city in and the county seat of Jackson County, Illinois, United States.

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National Historic Landmark

A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the United States government for its outstanding historical significance.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster.; La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana.

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New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad

The New York, Chicago and St.

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Norfolk Southern Railway

The Norfolk Southern Railway is a Class I railroad in the United States.

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Normal, Illinois

Normal is a town in McLean County, Illinois, United States.

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Oberlin College

Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio.

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Order of Railway Conductors

The Order of Railway Conductors of America (ORC) was a labor union that represented train conductors in the United States.

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Panama, Illinois

Panama is a village in Montgomery and Bond counties, Illinois, United States.

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Peoria, Illinois

Peoria is the county seat of Peoria County, Illinois, and the largest city on the Illinois River.

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Philip Danforth Armour

Philip Danforth Armour Sr. (16 May 1832 – 6 January 1901) was an American meatpacking industrialist who founded the Chicago-based firm of Armour & Company.

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Pontiac Correctional Center

Pontiac Correctional Center, established in June 1871, is an Illinois Department of Corrections maximum security prison (Level 1) for adult males in Pontiac, Illinois.

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Pontiac, Illinois

Pontiac is a city in Livingston County, Illinois, United States.

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Portage Park, Chicago

Portage Park is located on the northwest side of the City of Chicago, Illinois and is one of 77 officially designated Chicago community areas.

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Pullman Strike

The Pullman Strike was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States that lasted from May 11 to July 20, 1894, and a turning point for US labor law.

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Roxana, Illinois

Roxana is a village in Madison County, Illinois, United States.

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Samuel Gompers

Samuel Gompers (January 27, 1850December 13, 1924) was an English-born American labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history.

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Scranton, Pennsylvania

Scranton is the sixth-largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania behind Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie and Reading.

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Southern Pacific Transportation Company

The Southern Pacific (or Espee from the railroad initials- SP) was an American Class I railroad network that existed from 1865 to 1998 that operated in the Western United States.

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Spring Valley, Illinois

Spring Valley is a city situated on the Illinois River in Bureau County, Illinois, United States.

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Springfield, Illinois

Springfield is the capital of the U.S. state of Illinois and the county seat of Sangamon County.

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Taylorville, Illinois

Taylorville is a city in and the county seat of Christian County, Illinois, United States.

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Temperance movement

The temperance movement is a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

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Union Pacific Railroad

The Union Pacific Railroad (or Union Pacific Railroad Company and simply Union Pacific) is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago and New Orleans.

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United Mine Workers

The United Mine Workers of America (UMW or UMWA) is a North American labor union best known for representing coal miners.

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United Steelworkers

The United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union (United Steelworkers or USW) is the largest industrial labor union in North America, with 860,294 members.

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University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

The University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (also known as U of I, Illinois, or colloquially as the University of Illinois or UIUC) is a public research university in the U.S. state of Illinois and the flagship institution of the University of Illinois System.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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West Frankfort, Illinois

West Frankfort is a city in Franklin County, Illinois, United States.

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Workers' Memorial Day

Workers' Memorial Day, International Workers' Memorial Day or International Commemoration Day (ICD) for Dead and Injured or Day of Mourning takes place annually around the world on April 28, an international day of remembrance and action for workers killed, disabled, injured or made unwell by their work.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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1909 Cherry Mine disaster

The Cherry Mine disaster was a fire in the Cherry, Illinois, coal mine in 1909, and surrounding events, in which 259 men and boys died.

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1932 Moweaqua Coal Mine disaster

The Moweaqua Coal Mine Disaster happened on December 24, 1932, in Moweaqua, Illinois.

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1947 Centralia mine disaster

In the Centralia mine disaster on March 25, 1947, the Centralia No.

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References

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