U.S. regular troops on the lakefront, Harper's Weekly, July 21, 1894. This image by T. Dacy Walker, drawn from a photograph by J.W. Taylor, captures both the high visibility of the army troops in Chicago and the skyline that the city had celebrated during the World's Columbian Exposition just a year earlier. The view is from Lake Park (Grant Park) looking south and west toward the Illinois Central train station. Altogether there were some 6,000 federal and state troops, 3,100 police, and 5,000 deputy marshals in Chicago during July 1894.

Artist: T. Dart Walker (from a photograph by J. W. Taylor)
Source: Newberry Library (Harper's Weekly, 21 July 1894)