Lager Beer Riot

When

21 Apr 1855

Kind

Riot

Coordinates

41.88° N, 87.63° W

Description

series of riots in Chicago in 1855

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Series of riots in Chicago in 1855

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 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 $300 per year, renewable quarterly.

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