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Monument Sculpture made by Mary Brogger commemorating the Haymarket Events of May 4th, 1886 in Chicago
© Flavio Martín Morante_2013_ IPhone 4
This past weekend Dawn and I spent the weekend on Chicago as we made our way to see the Pet Shop Boys concert as part of their 2013 tour presenting their new album Electric. After listening this band since I was around 10 years old, it was really nice to see them live for first time. A great concert, full of great music and lights display. A nice Electro-Brit-Pop show.
Also, we wondered the streets of the city and we ended visiting two historic sites that were part of my "one historic place each time" list. This time was the turn of the Haymarket Memorial. As a person not born in the United States, I find fascinating that dark episode of american history that is widely known and celebrated by most of the world (including Uruguay) as May Day, Chicago Martyrs Day, or First of May (an incorrect date) but barely (if not) known in the country it did actually happened.
Because of the meaning this place has in general culture, it was nice to be able to make it there, despite the place obviously has changed drastically in the last 127 years, with only a beautiful sculpture by Mary Brogger shown at the beginning of this post as a reminder of the events unfolded there during the Haymarket Riots.
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