Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It took more than a century for Chicago’s Haymarket Square to get this memorial to the historic labor strife that occurred there. ...

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It took more than a century for Chicago’s Haymarket Square to get this memorial to the historic labor strife that occurred there. Jeffrey Sklansky The celebrations aren’t the same. In much of Europe, ...