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In 1850, there were 526 Norwegians living in Chicago, making them the third-largest immigrant group, after the German and Irish. Ten years later, that number had increased threefold. By 1870, Norwegianborn Chicagoans numbered more than eight thousand.

Belle Gunness was a lady fair
In Indiana State.
She weighed about three hundred pounds,
And that is quite some weight.
That she was stronger than a man
Her neighbors all did own;
She butchered hogs right easily,
And did it all alone.
But hogs were just a sideline
She indulged in now and then;
Her favorite occupation
Was a-butchering of men.