Chicago, a history and forecast . ngvalued at $6,000,000,000. Illinois gave to the Nationthe American Protective League and the Four-Minutemen, and organized labor kept industrial peace. Of the states 351,153 men in the army and navy morethan 46 per cent entered by enlistment. Illinois regis-tered 1,572,747 men under the selective draft and ofthese 188,010 were inducted into the service. More than5,000 men gave their lives for their country, and outof the seventy-eight officers and men awarded the Con-gressional Medal of Honor seven were residents of Illi-nois, while 350 officers and men from
Chicago, a history and forecast . ngvalued at $6,000,000,000. Illinois gave to the Nationthe American Protective League and the Four-Minutemen, and organized labor kept industrial peace. Of the states 351,153 men in the army and navy morethan 46 per cent entered by enlistment. Illinois regis-tered 1,572,747 men under the selective draft and ofthese 188,010 were inducted into the service. More than5,000 men gave their lives for their country, and outof the seventy-eight officers and men awarded the Con-gressional Medal of Honor seven were residents of Illi-nois, while 350 officers and men from this state receivedthe Distinguished Service Cross. The state maintainedfour great training camps, one the Reserve OfficersTraining Camp at Fort Sheridan, and the others theGreat Lakes Naval Training Station, National Army 79 Cantonment at Camp Grant, and the Chanute FlyingField at Rantoul. Under the State Council of Defense80,000 citizens engaged in war activities and nearly 700,-000 women in Illinois were enrolled in the womans. Libertys service flag. A splendid bit of war work by John T. McCutcheon, in Chicago Tribune. 80 committee of the State Council of Defense, while hun-dreds of thousands of other men, women and childrenwere otherwise active for the victories. Chi icago s war Civilian War Work work, non-combatant. functioned through the American Red Cross, and in die follow-ing seven societies, all like the universal mother, ar-dently devoted to the aims of victory: National War
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