Faculty note: Prof. Hutchison publication

Prof. Ray Hutchison (Sociology and Public and Environmental Affairs) has published a paper titled “Empy Space: Historical Memory” in the Springer VS collection Moving Cities — Contested Views on Urban Life.  Hutchison’s chapter examines three events from the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 in Chicago — the Market Square rally where Albert Parsons addressed some 20,000 persons, the police attack on the Vorwärts Turner Hall and the Battle of the Halsted Street Viaduct — using historical sources and illustrations as well as contemporary photographs to demonstrate how knowledge of the past has been erased from everyday lived space: there are no historical markers to commemorate these events. If you have never heard of the Great Railroad Strike or the Battle of the Halsted Street Viaduct, that is precisely the point!