Strike suspends service on railroads, street cars and elevated lines
According to the tribune archives, take a look at those in the Chicago region on August 1.
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Air records ( National Weather Service, Chicago)
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High temperature: 100 degrees (1988)
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Low temperature: 51 degrees (1990)
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Precipitation: 2.55 inch (1961)
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Snowfall: Trace (2003)
1922: More than 20,000 employees came out of work from 4 o’clock and joined 400,000 railway workers. Great Railway StrikeWhich suspended service All Chicago Street car lines and raised trains.
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Vintage Chicago Tribune: 400,000 railway workers in 1922 out of work
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