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    The Chicago race riot of 1919 was a violent racial conflict between white Americans and black Americans that began on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois...
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  • The 1968 Chicago riots, in the United States, were sparked in part by the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Rioting and looting followed, with people...
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  • The Chicago Riot was an indoor soccer team that played in the Major Indoor Soccer League. They were based in Villa Park, Illinois, near Chicago, and they...
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  • incidents of civil unrest, rioting, violent labor disputes, or minor insurrections or revolts in Chicago, Illinois. Chicago shooting List of incidents...
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    Riot Fest is an annual three-day punk rock music festival based in Chicago, Illinois, at Douglass Park. It is known for booking reunions, guest performances...
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  • Mass rioting and looting occurred in Chicago, Illinois in the immediate aftermath of the Chicago Bulls winning six NBA championships in the 1990s. During...
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  • The Humboldt Park riot was the second major conflict between Puerto Ricans in Chicago and the Chicago Police Department. The riot began on June 4, 1977...
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    A riot or mob violence is a form of civil disorder commonly characterized by a group lashing out in a violent public disturbance against authority, property...
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  • The 1966 Chicago West Side riots occurred between July 12 and 15 in Chicago, Illinois. After police arrested a man who was wanted for armed robbery, black...
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    affair, also known as the Haymarket massacre, the Haymarket riot, the Haymarket Square riot, or the Haymarket Incident, was the aftermath of a bombing...
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  • April 12, 2024, at the Wintrust Arena in Chicago, Illinois. It was the second event under the Windy City Riot chronology. Eleven matches were contested...
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  • lines with intent to incite a riot, and other charges related to anti-Vietnam War and 1960s counterculture protests in Chicago, Illinois during the 1968 Democratic...
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  • The Chicago Riot Rugby Football Club is a Division III rugby union team based out of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is a member of the Chicago Area...
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    The Lager Beer Riot occurred on April 21, 1855 in Chicago, Illinois, and was the first major civil disturbance in the city. Mayor Levi Boone, a Nativist...
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  • Lager Beer Riot, April 21, Chicago, Illinois 1855 – Portland Rum Riot, June 2, Portland, Maine 1855 – Bloody Monday, Know-Nothing Party riot, August 6...
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  • civic involvement in Chicago. This was the first riot in the United States attributed to Puerto Ricans. Puerto Rican migration to Chicago peaked in the 1950s...
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    Numerous African Americans fought back, notably in the Chicago and Washington, D.C., race riots, which resulted in 38 and 15 deaths respectively, along...
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  • The Stonewall riots, also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, or simply Stonewall, were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations...
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    The 1967 Detroit riot, also known as the 12th Street Riot, and the Detroit Uprising, was the bloodiest of the urban riots in the United States during the...
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    campaign canceled a planned rally at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), in Chicago, Illinois, citing "growing safety concerns" due to the presence...
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  • race riot (Elaine, Arkansas) Washington race riot of 1919 Jenkins County, Georgia, riot of 1919 Macon, Mississippi, race riot Chicago race riot of 1919...
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    Some of the biggest riots took place in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Chicago, and Kansas City. The immediate cause of the rioting was the assassination...
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    Abbie Hoffman (category Chicago Seven)
    1968.: 4  Five of the Chicago Seven defendants, including Hoffman, were convicted of crossing state lines with intent to incite a riot;: 8  all of the convictions...
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    stout, pigface, horned goblin. During Gwar's appearance at the 2014 Chicago Riot Fest, the character debuted udders that spray fluid on the crowd, similar...
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  • Riot grrrl is an underground feminist punk movement that began during the early 1990s within the United States in Olympia, Washington, and the greater...
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    Riot Games, Inc. is an American video game developer, publisher, and esports tournament organizer based in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in September...
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    A police riot is a riot carried out by the police; more specifically, it is a riot that police are responsible for instigating, escalating or sustaining...
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  • assassination riots, April and May, across the United States, including: 1968 Washington, D.C., riots, April 4–8, Washington, D.C. 1968 Chicago riots (West Side...
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  • Fernwood Park Race Riot was a race massacre instigated by white residents against African American residents who inhabited the Chicago Housing Authority...
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    and music. Continuing racial tensions and violence, such as the Chicago race riot of 1919, also occurred. The ratification of the 18th amendment to...
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