. History of Chicago Historical and commercial statistics, sketches, facts and figures, republished from the "Daily Democratic press." What I remember of early Chicago; a lecture, delivered in McCormick's Hall, January 23, 1876, (Tribune, January 24th,) . s under 5 years of age 513 Total black Total 4,066 Sailors belonging to vessels owned here 104 Grand Total 4,170 The census shows that there were : 4 Warehouses, 19 Grocery and Provision398 Dwellmfs, Stores, 29 Dry Goods Stores, 10 Ta\ erns, 5 Hardware Stores, 26 (iroceries, 3 Drug Stores, 17 Lawyers Offices, • 5 Churches. LIST OF
. History of Chicago Historical and commercial statistics, sketches, facts and figures, republished from the "Daily Democratic press." What I remember of early Chicago; a lecture, delivered in McCormick's Hall, January 23, 1876, (Tribune, January 24th,) . s under 5 years of age 513 Total black Total 4,066 Sailors belonging to vessels owned here 104 Grand Total 4,170 The census shows that there were : 4 Warehouses, 19 Grocery and Provision398 Dwellmfs, Stores, 29 Dry Goods Stores, 10 Ta\ erns, 5 Hardware Stores, 26 (iroceries, 3 Drug Stores, 17 Lawyers Offices, • 5 Churches. LIST OF 1837—W. B. ;J8—B. S. :)—Benj. W. —A. —Francis C. —Benj. W. —Auijustus —A. S. —Augustus —John P. —James —James H. —James H. —James —Walter S. —Walter S. —C. M. —1. L. Miliiken. We left the history of the Illinois andMichigan canal at the laying out of thetown of Chicago in 1829, by the CanalCommissioners. Nothing effectual wasdone till the special session of tlie Legisla-ture in 1835-0, when the canal board was. HISTOKY OF CHICAGO. 33 reorganized, and an act was passed au-thorizing a loan of half a million of dol-lars to construct the canal. Ground wasbroken at Bridgeport, on the fourth ofJuly, 1836. At the session of the Legislature in1836-7, the State entered upon a splendidscheme of internal improvements. TheState was completely chequered with rail-road projects, and many millions weresquandered. The total length of the roadsto be at once completed was some thirteenhundred miles, and five millions of dollarswere expended in locating and gradingthem. Amid the general financial embar-rassment which followed those years ofmadness and folly, the credit of the Statewent down, and bankruptcy and a generalsuspension of the public works were thec
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