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===Haymarket Police Memorial bombing=== [[Image:HaymarketPoliceMemorial.jpg|right|thumb|The [[Haymarket affair|Haymarket Square]] police memorial, seen in 1889]] Shortly before the [[Days of Rage]] demonstrations on October 6, 1969,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chicagohistory.org/dramas/epilogue/toServeAndProtect/monumentOnTheMove.htm |title=To Serve and Protect |publisher=Chicagohistory.org |access-date=2015-01-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150501192936/http://www.chicagohistory.org/dramas/epilogue/toServeAndProtect/monumentOnTheMove.htm |archive-date=May 1, 2015 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> the Weatherman planted a bomb which blew up [[Monuments relating to the Haymarket affair|a statue in Chicago commemorating the deaths of police officers]] during the 1886 [[Haymarket Riot]].{{sfn|Jacobs|1997}}{{Page needed|date=November 2024}} The blast broke nearly 100 windows and scattered pieces of the statue onto the Kennedy Expressway below.<ref name=Avrich431>{{cite book |last=Avrich |title=The Haymarket Tragedy |page=431 }}</ref> The city rebuilt the statue and unveiled it on May 4, 1970, but the Weathermen blew it up as well on October 6, 1970.<ref name=Avrich431/><ref>Adelman. Haymarket Revisited, p. 40.</ref> The city rebuilt the statue once again, and Mayor [[Richard J. Daley]] posted a 24-hour police guard to protect it,<ref name=Avrich431/> but the Weathermen destroyed the third one, as well. The city compromised and rebuilt the monument once more, but this time they located it at Chicago Police Headquarters.<ref>{{cite book|last=Green|first=James|title=Death in the Haymarket|url=https://archive.org/details/deathinhaymarket00gree|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/deathinhaymarket00gree/page/316 316]|publisher=Pantheon Books|year=2006|isbn=0-375-42237-4}}</ref>
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