. Book of the Royal blue . ceamong the leading grain-exporting ports ofthe world, and its population had increasedto 65,000. Five years later the realizationhad dawned upon them that they weredestined to become a metropolis, and thefigures in population and the earnings in withstanding the four years of tlie CivilWar, Chicagos business forged ahead andthe city grew with amazing prosperityuntil 1871, when it was visited by the de-structive fire which consumed nearly everywholesale house in the city. The fire ap-parently only added to the zeal of the CHICAGO. 5 merchants, and like most fires in
. Book of the Royal blue . ceamong the leading grain-exporting ports ofthe world, and its population had increasedto 65,000. Five years later the realizationhad dawned upon them that they weredestined to become a metropolis, and thefigures in population and the earnings in withstanding the four years of tlie CivilWar, Chicagos business forged ahead andthe city grew with amazing prosperityuntil 1871, when it was visited by the de-structive fire which consumed nearly everywholesale house in the city. The fire ap-parently only added to the zeal of the CHICAGO. 5 merchants, and like most fires in large factures increased to .SSIS^OOOjdOO, and cities, was a financial blessing. Tiie total ten years later, that is in liS!»l, had passed loss was estimated at about $^00,000,000, the billion mark, and in l!U)t, which has and it lias been stated that the insurance exceeded all previous years in volume of amounted to less than twenty cents on the wholesale trade and manufactures, had dollar. increased to $.5,00.),000, MARKET STUKKT. Nllltlll KKOM .).\CKSON BOrLEVARD. The city of Chicago of today thereforereally dates its phj-sical existence from thefire. In IS.*? the wholesale and manufac-turing business, amounting to ; I (!,000,()()0,had increased $79,000,000 over that of1871, notwithstanding the fire years later the wholesales and A visit to Chicago today shows a concen-tration of the wholesale houses in the mostcentral district of the city. Within one-half mile square, fully !Ul per cent ofall the wholesale houses in the city arecongregated. Chicago is the greatestclothing market and greatest furniture CHICAGO.
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