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Business that did not survive
There is little direct evidence that businesses actually closed as a result of the disorder. That 106 businesses owners sued the city for damages indicated the extent of losses from attacks and looting; there is less information on the scale of those losses. The claims in only twenty-six of those suits are reported in the press; they range from $14,215 by Harry Piskin and $14,000 by George Chronis to $146.75 by Michael D'Agostino and $47.40 by Joseph Cohen, with a median claim of $733.13. The city lost the test cases of those suits, so those litigants likely received some damages that would have helped them stay in businesses. The losses of twenty-six other businesses reported in legal records and the press (some of which may have been among the seventy-nine unidentified business owners who sued the city) were less than those of the businesses reported as suing the city, ranging from $10-12 to $1000 (and one with losses of $10,000), with a median loss of only $100.