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Saturday, July 24, 2010

July 24 in Chicago history

The S.S. Eastland, a tour ship boarding to set sail across Lake Michigan, capsized while docked in the Chicago River, trapping countless passengers and resulting in the deaths of 844 passengers and crew on July 24, 1915.
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