The Illinois and Michigan Canal : a study in economic history . anced by leaps and 1830, one hundred and twenty-six lots sold inChicago at prices varying from twenty-four toone hundred and thirty dollars each, but averagingabout thirty-five dollars. Eighty acres of land, As originally laid out in 1830, the town of Chicagocomprised the territory between the present streetsof State and Halsted, and Kinzie and Madison, thejunction of the north and south forks of the Chicagoriver falling within the limits of the town. JamesThompson of St. Louis was surveyor for the Commis-sioners. His p
The Illinois and Michigan Canal : a study in economic history . anced by leaps and 1830, one hundred and twenty-six lots sold inChicago at prices varying from twenty-four toone hundred and thirty dollars each, but averagingabout thirty-five dollars. Eighty acres of land, As originally laid out in 1830, the town of Chicagocomprised the territory between the present streetsof State and Halsted, and Kinzie and Madison, thejunction of the north and south forks of the Chicagoriver falling within the limits of the town. JamesThompson of St. Louis was surveyor for the Commis-sioners. His plat and compass are owned by the ChicagoHistorical Society. 2Andreas, History of Chicago, I, p. 115. The original Town of Chicago, the eastern ter-minus of the Canal, as surveyed by James Thompsonby order of the Commissioners. His plat showingpurchasers of lots, filed August -t, 1830. 1 he-Forks, not the Public Square, was the center olpopulation at this time. - i ? i io . i irlj ; - m m i i .mmrDoiratt X, I ? jmn *. « lixlnt IS Ffffl ! , P 5 LOTS. : r— li ~ -^>— j~_-x__
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