Chicago, a history and forecast . General Heiief Committee COFaEEaATIOIsrAL CHUECH,^AnnSts., . ii„, r., ^.-(.-1 !?? »l^^ «I II. ,.1 < H. B. MASOar,ma|ror. Stern days when heroic men and women rose to un-precedented emergencies. Permission of Chicago Historical Society. belongs to our national history and need not be traversedhere. As the metropolis of the state which gave Grantand Lincoln to the nation Chicago, of course, playeda worthy part in the contest. Here from an early dayabolition sentiment had been powerful, and when, afterthe Compromise of 1850, Stephen A.
Chicago, a history and forecast . General Heiief Committee COFaEEaATIOIsrAL CHUECH,^AnnSts., . ii„, r., ^.-(.-1 !?? »l^^ «I II. ,.1 < H. B. MASOar,ma|ror. Stern days when heroic men and women rose to un-precedented emergencies. Permission of Chicago Historical Society. belongs to our national history and need not be traversedhere. As the metropolis of the state which gave Grantand Lincoln to the nation Chicago, of course, playeda worthy part in the contest. Here from an early dayabolition sentiment had been powerful, and when, afterthe Compromise of 1850, Stephen A. Douglas came hometo account to his constituents for his share in that meas-ure the indignant citizens hooted him from the Colonel Ellsworth had acted his brief role on the 28 stage of public affairs, and in his person Chicago fur-nished the first hero of the Civil War. Through War and Fire Although the war inevitably dislocated the business ofChicago, it did not greatly retard, apparently, the citysgrowth.
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