Wacker's manual of the plan of Chicago; municipal economy (1911)
Moody, Walter Dwight, 1874-1920, Wacker, Charles Henry, 1856-, Chicago Plan Commission · [Chicago, Printed by H. C. Sherman & co. · leaf 32
Modern Steel Railroad Train, IDll. No section of our country, except NewEngland, has so clear and distinct a historyas the territory centering at Chicago. The tions that Chicago grew in the last fiftyyears of the past century from a city ofthirty thousand to one of two million peo- THE BASIS FOR… … pie, and that despite a fire wliicli in 1871destroyed most of the city with a moneyloss of $190,000,000. Today all indications point to continuedgains in population for Chicago. Thefacts are,that with ap o pulationof 2,250,000,Chicago isg a i ning atthe rate inexcess of65,000 per-sons yearly. The…
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