Donkey Boys in the Streets of Cairo
“Former President Barack Obama’s proposed parking garage wouldn’t have been the first oddball structure built on Chicago’s Midway Plaisance.” writes Ron Grossman in the Chicago Tribune, referring to the now scuttled plans to build a parking lot for the Obama Presidential Center on the east end of the Midway.
Grossman has dug through the Tribune‘s archive to excavate some interesting news stories from 1893 about the Midway, including “The donkey boys of Cairo went on strike” from July 7, 1893:
