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Re:The Raising of Chicago by jusben1369 on Thursday August 29, 2013 @09:31AM (#6295676)
Well if any of today's American cities lost 5 to 7% of their population in a single year to some sort of medical epidemic I suspect there'd be a fair bit of civil activity.
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Re:The Raising of Chicago by ParahSailin on Thursday August 29, 2013 @04:27PM (#6298411)
The 1885 cholera epidemic is a widely told myth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_1885_cholera_epidemic_m...
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Re:The Raising of Chicago by jusben1369 on Friday August 30, 2013 @08:05AM (#6301265)
Well I was going simply off the article. Still, even that entry shows pretty consistent spurts of deaths hitting 3 - 5% of the population so it's pretty consistent with the point of the article (after multiple years of deaths they were force/spurred to act)
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