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Identifier: randmcnallycosha02chic (find matches)
Title: Rand, McNally & co.'s handy guide to Chicago, and World's Columbian exposition ... What to see and how to see it
Year: 1892 (1890s)
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Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Chicago and New York, Rand, McNally & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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tal of the wealth-producingWest. The growth of Chicago has, throughout, been coincident withthe development and prosperity of the Western States and Terri-tories; of IlHnois and Iowa especially it may be said to havegrown with their growth and strengthened with their strength.Young as is Chicago, it was not until after its incorporation as acity that what is now the great State of Iowa received even a ter-ritorial organization; while it was only in 1818 that Illinois, nowleading all the other States in cereal productions and mileage ofrailroads, and even ranking fourth in manufactures, was admittedinto the Union, with a population of about 30,000, mainly settledin the southern part of the State. The Fort Dearborn Massacre occurred August 15, 1812, ata spot near Eighteenth Street and Indiana Avenue, which is pro-posed to be marked by an appropriate monument, shortly to beerected by Mr. G. M. Pullman. Capt. Wells, several other officers and their wives, some Scale 220 Yards to one Inch.
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MAP OF THE MOUTH OF THE CHICAGO RIVER,With Plan of Proposed Piers for Improving the Harbor.By Wm. Howard, United States Civil Engineer. February 24, (17) 18 HANDY GUIDE TO CUTCA GO. seventy regular soldiers, twelve militia, with women and children,making a party of about one hundred all told, were attacked andnearly all butchered by the bloodthirsty and treacherous savages.Near the south end of the Rush Street bridge, on the warehouseof the W. M. Hoyt Company, a marble slab commemorates thelocation and history of the old military post. The Great Fire of 1871.—The destructive fire of 1871originated on Sunday night, October 8th, near the corner ofJefferson and DeKoven streets, where Mrs. OLearys fractiouscow is said to have kicked over a kerosene lamp, setting fire tothe contents of the shed. At that time, a strong gale was blowingfrom the southwest, which soon fanned an insignificant blaze intoa sea of flame, and whirled the firebrands on their errands ofdestruction far in advance of

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