9 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (241 x 140 mm) printed broadside. Matted and framed, overall, 18 x 14 in. Unexamined out of frame.

CHICAGO MAYOR CALLS FOR ORDER FOLLOWING THE GREAT CHICAGO FIRE.

In the immediate aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire, Mayor Roswell B. Mason called for calm and order, largely in response to reports of looting and lawlessness throughout the city. After two days had passed with no end to the chaos, Mason declared martial law, thus placing the city under the temporary control of General Philip H. Sheridan. For two weeks, hundreds of soldiers patrolled the streets along with a citizen-led militia. The occupation ended only after a twenty-year-old military cadet, Theodore Newell Treat, shot and killed the city's police court prosecuting attorney, Thomas Grosvenor, who was returning home from a friend's house. Within forty-eight hours, Mayor Mason revoked the martial law order, and Sheridan and his men left Chicago.

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