Raise a glass to the Lager Beer Riot! It exposed a strain of bigotry that ran through the Temperance movement and opened doors to recreation.
In the 1840s, Chicago’s population expanded with the influx in immigrants. Irish escaped the Great …
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The Riot of Spring
May
27
At the end of the Belle Époque, art produced a riot. The confluence of music and dance at the premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring caused an incensed audience to throw fists at each other and objects at …
