An endeavor most educational and philisophical, a gathering most intellectual and satirical and hysterical and libational

Doors open at 6 p.m., Lyceum begins at 7 p.m. Abbreviated dinner menu available from 6-7, bar open throughout.

THIS MONTH: MATT HOLM: LINCOLN & MARX

Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train arrived in Chicago on May 1, 1865. Tens of Thousands of working class Chicagoans Marched his catafalque to the Old County Courthouse where he lay in State until the following morning. Seven thousand people an hour viewed Lincoln’s body on a day that would become sacred to Socialist workers twenty years later. May Day. On May 4th, 1886, Chicago and the Labor movement were indelibly linked with the Haymarket Square Riot. In 1889, the Second International deemed May Day as a day of solidarity, celebrating the Workers of the World. In memory, Lincoln was forever linked to the cause of the working man and Socialists. Surely Lincoln wasn’t a Socialist, but aside from the date itself, what connection is there between one of our most revered Presidents and the Socialist Movement? What historic bond exists between Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx?

Find out May 2, at the Side Car Supper Club while you raise a Toast to LABOR DAY!

Matt Holm is an American History, US Government, and Contemporary Issues Instructor at Batavia High School. He runs History Labs for College Credit through Waubonsee Community College. His Master’s Degree focused on what was considered, at the time, the outliers of American History, namely: women, Laborers, Slaves & Freedpeople, Natives and Immigrants. His 2nd Masters Degree in Political Philosophy may never get finished.