| 1894 | The Chap Book. Established as the house organ of Cambridge publishers Stone and Kimball, it relocated to Chicago and featured contributions by Henry James, Hamlin Garland, and foreign authors such as H. G. Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, and William Butler Yeats. It continued until 1897. |
| 1894 | The Pullman Strike in Chicago. The most violent labor demonstration of the period leads to the founding of the American Socialist Party and becomes a reference point for both radical and conservative writers concerned with the growing problems of industrialization. |
