1922 crowd awaiting Herrin Mine Grand Jury on Public Square, Marion, Illinois

In 1922, a crowd on the public square in Marion, Illinois anxiously awaits the outcome of a Grand Jury to hand down verdicts related to the Herrin Mine massacres which occured earlier in the year.  Scab mine workers who had been called in to work the mines during strikes at a mine just outside Herrin, Illinois had been brutally murdered and tortured.

(Photo from the Williamson County Historical Society)