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LABOR LANDMARK OF THE WEEK

Harold Phillips | Published on 5/23/2026

Eugene V. Debs Plaque At Woodstock’s Sheriff’s House/Old McHenry County Jail

In 1895, following the conclusion of the Pullman Railroad Strike, Eugene Debs served a six months term in the McHenry County Jail located in Woodstock, Illinois. This plaque memorializes the significance of the imprisonment and its impact on the labor movement and the free speech movement in the decades that followed.


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