ILLINOIS HISTORY TEACHER Editor Keith A. Sculle Advisory Board, Volume 13:2 Patricia Grimmer (retired) Carbondale Community High School Carbondale, Illinois Robert H. Lombard Western Illinois University - Macomb, Illinois David Maurer (retired) Eastern Illinois University - Charleston, Illinois Michael Jones John A. Logan Museum - Murphysboro, Illinois ILLINOIS HISTORIC PRESERVATION AGENCY Board of Trustees Julie Cellini, Chair Pamela A. Daniels J. Douglas Donenfeld Edward M. Genson Laurie Ann Hoffman Elizabeth I. Smith Roger Taylor Director Robert J. Coomer Chief, Office of Constituent Services Evelyn R. Taylor

CONTENTS Introduction .......................................... 1 Keith A. Sculle, Editor Miners of the Prairie: The Days of Shaft Mining in Northern Illinois .... 2-9 Richard P. Joyce Curriculum Materials Evelyn R. Holt Otten Remember Virden! The Coal Mine Wars of 1898-1900 ........ 10-22 Rosemary Feurer Curriculum Materials Michael K. Daugherty and Jenny L. Daugherty When Worlds Collide: The 1894 Pullman Strike in Decatur, Illinois .... 23-35 Robert D. Sampson Curriculum Materials Malcolm W. Moore, Jr. Meatpacking in Illinois History .................................. 36-45 Wilson J. Warren Curriculum Materials Victoria E. Hollister An Insert—The Labor Trail Reveals Illinois As "The Land of Labor" .... 46-47 Lisa Oppenheim, Chicago Metro History Education Center Bibliography.....................48 Contributors' Biographies.................................Inside Back Cover