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<b>The dramatic story of a Gilded Age murder that shocked people from Chicago to Ireland</b><br> <br> It was the biggest funeral Chicago had seen since Lincoln’s. On May 26, 1889, four thousand mourners proceeded down Michigan Avenue, followed by a crowd forty thousand strong, in a howl of protest at what commentators called one of the ghastliest and most curious crimes in civilized history. The dead man, Dr. P. H. Cronin, was a respected Irish physician, but his brutal murder uncovered a web of
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- Author
- Gillian O'Brien
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226379999
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Social Science, Ireland
- Rating
- 3.26 / 5 (68 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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