A Biography of America
The New City – Key Events
1882
First electric streetcar in Chicago
1885
First iron-frame skyscraper built in Chicago
1889
Hull House founded
1880s
Illinois labor legislation passed
1890
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
1892
Homestead steelworkers strike
1893
World’s Columbian Exposition
Turner announces closing of the frontier
1894
Pullman Strike