Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... On this day 110 years ago, a ship in the Chicago River between LaSalle Drive and Clark Street was loaded with more than 2,500 passengers — many of them ...
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The horrendous disaster of SS Eastland

In 1915, the passenger steamer SS Eastland was preparing to depart Chicago for a company picnic when disaster struck. With thousands of passengers crowded aboard, the ship suddenly began to list.
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