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

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-No

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: History Press
Published: 11/16/2015
ISBN: 9781467118903
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.30d