The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . ? Sftjifep-^*.-** f&^. AN AT THE FAIR GROUNDS. twenty-four miles. The business centre of the city is about one-third of the distance from the north end, and close to the lake. Atthis point there flows into the lake the Chicago river, a sluo-o-Ish. 56 THE SITE AND HOW TO REACH IT, Stream, in looks little morethan a huge open sewer, butof vast importance to the com-mercial life of the great a point one mile west of thelake the river is formed by twobranches, one flowing from thenorth and one from the sources o
The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . ? Sftjifep-^*.-** f&^. AN AT THE FAIR GROUNDS. twenty-four miles. The business centre of the city is about one-third of the distance from the north end, and close to the lake. Atthis point there flows into the lake the Chicago river, a sluo-o-Ish. 56 THE SITE AND HOW TO REACH IT, Stream, in looks little morethan a huge open sewer, butof vast importance to the com-mercial life of the great a point one mile west of thelake the river is formed by twobranches, one flowing from thenorth and one from the sources of these twostreams are a few miles to thenorthwest and the is explained the divisionsinto which the city has natur-ally fallen, the West side, theNorth side and the South commercial interests ofthe city then centre in thepocket formed by the river,and here are the great retailstores, the wholesale stores,the banks, and the offices. Butin each of the divisions arelarge business enterprises, andin each of them may be foundmagnificent homes and largequarters where the best andmost intelligent of the citizensdwell. So that while there issome sectional jealousy, ormore properly pride, amongthe residents of the differentdivisions, each loyal to the sideon which he lives, there is noexclus
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