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| Charlie Harris | a rum-runner and gangster associate of the Sheltons who was probably responsible for the deaths of Carl and Bernie Shelton |
| NAACP | formed in 1909 in response to the Springfield riots to right racial wrongs peacefully and legally |
| Lory and Ethel Price | disappeared, and their murders were originally thought to be the work of the Sheltons but were actually committed by Birger and his gang |
| Volstead Act | provided guidelines for the federal enforcement of Prohibition. |
| Mayor Joe Adams | His murder by two young men hired by Charlie Birger would bring about the gangster’s downfall |
| Shelton Gang | Wayne County farmers who started with a tavern in East St. Louis and grew to control liquor supplies and gambling in Southern Illinois |
| Shady Rest | Birger’s headquarters, the site of an actual aerial bombing, though damage may have been limited to the death of an eagle and a bulldog |
| Art Newman | ran the Arlington hotel where the Sheltons stayed in East St. Louis, but he later turned against the them, working with Charlie Birger to frame them for various crimes |
| Helen Holbrook | was involved with Birger but may have had an affair with Carl while Birger was down in Florida buying liquor, contributing to the split of the Sheltons and Charlie Birger |
| Charlie Birger | The Southern Illinois gangster was the last man executed by hanging in Illinois |
| Ora Thomas | the leader of the anti-Klan Knights of the Flaming Circle. He died in a shoot-out with S. Glenn Young |
| Seth Glenn Young | a federal Prohibition agent who conducted raids in Williamson county with the help of Klan members |
| Smith's Garage | the site of a large Klan War skirmish in Herrin, Illinois, where six men were killed |
| Knights of the Flaming Circle | an anti-Klan group, whose members included Birger and the Sheltons |
| LaSalle Black Law | virtually prohibited strikes in the U.S |
| Eugene Williams | the young black boy who went swimming in Lake Michigan and crossed into the white area. His death sparked riots in Chicago |
| Haymarket Affair | there was a strike at the McCormick Works in Chicago, and an anarchist involved in the labor movement threw a bomb at the protest when the police tried to disperse what was left of the crowd |
| Springfield | A race riot broke out in 1908 when the wife of a streetcar conductor claimed a black man broke into her home and assaulted her |
| Hammond, Indiana | the location of a bloody skirmish between strikers and troops with orders to shoot at anyone obstructing the tracks as they escorted the mail into Chicago |
| J.P. Altgeld | the first foreign-born and Chicago resident to become governor. He had studied the Haymarket case and was vilified in the national press for pardoning the three Haymarket men still living |
| George M. Pullman | cut workers’ wages by 25%, but not their rent and utilities |
| Eugene Debs | the head of the American Railway Union and didn’t want it going up against the General Managers Association, but the ARU members overruled him at their convention, getting involved in the strike |
| 18th Amendment | banned the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors. |
