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Chicago Daily Tribune, April 22, 1905

After Cap Streeter got out of prison on a technicality in 1904, he returned to Streeterville. His second wife had died while he was in jail, and within five months of his release, Streeter married again. This marriage to the teenage Mary Collins lasted only until she left him a few months later. Streeter's fourth wife, Elma, was known as "Ma" Streeter.




1905 Chicago Daily News photograph: Cap Streeter and cohorts back at Streeterville after his prison release, nineteen years after he began squatting on the disputed land east of St. Clair Street.

Courtesy of the Chicago History Museum.

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