Archive For April 24, 2022
“Every other male engaged in selling beer, and the rest of the men, women, and children consume it.” The Lager Beer Riot occurred on April 21,1855 in Chicago, Illinois. Mayor Levi Boone, a Nativist politician, renewed enforcement of an old local ordinance mandating that taverns be closed on Sundays and led the city council to raise the cost of a liquor license from $50 per year to…