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 Chicago 
 
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 With Map and Index to Streets 
 
 Asylums, 
 
 Parks, 
 
 Banks, 
 
 Public Halls 
 
 Blocks 
 
 Stock 
 
 And 
 
 Yards, 
 
 Buildings, 
 
 Street 
 
 Board of 
 
 Railways, 
 
 Trade, 
 
 Streets 
 
 Cemeteries, 
 
 And 
 
 Churches, 
 
 Avenues, 
 
 Colleges, 
 
 Theaters, 
 
 Consuls, 
 
 Water 
 
 Depots, 
 
 Works, 
 
 Harbor, 
 
 Etc., Etc., 
 
 Hospitals, 
 
 With' 
 
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 Maps and 
 
 Libraries, 
 
 Plans. 
 
POCKET GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
THE TEMPLE, CORNER LA SALLE AND MONROE STREETS. 
 
Rand, McNally & Co.'s 
 
 POCKET 
 
 Guide to Chicago 
 
 ILLUSTRATED. 
 
 With Maps and Index to Streets. 
 
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 chicago and new york 
 
 Rand, McNally & Company, Publishers 
 
 1893 
 
CoPYBiGHT, 1893, BY Rand, McNallt & Co. 
 
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER PAGE 
 
 1. General Facts as to Chicago, - - - - - ii 
 
 2. The Arrival in Chicago, - - - - - - 31 
 
 3. Getting About the City, . . . . . ^5 
 
 4. Theaters, the Opera, and Other Amusements, - - 57 
 
 5. Racing, and Other Athletic Sports, ... 64 
 
 6. Suggestions as to Shopping, - - . _ _ 68 
 
 7. The City's Parks, Squares, and Boulevards, - - 73 
 
 8. A Tour of the City, ------- 83 
 
 9. The Lake, River, and Harbor, . - _ - loi 
 
 10. A Ramble at Night, ------- 104 
 
 11. Churches and Religious Work in Chicago, - - - 112 
 
 12. Educational Institutions, - - - - - - 119 
 
 13. Art and Architecture, Monuments, etc., - - - 127 
 
 14. Clubs and Societies, .----__ 133 
 
 15. Military Affairs, 140 
 
 16. Hospitals, Dispensaries, and Nurses, - - . - 141 
 
 17. Chicago's Charities and Benevolent Institutions, - 149 
 
 18. The Markets of the City (Stock Yards, etc.), - - 155 
 
 19. World's Columbian Exposition, - - - - 163 
 Index to Streets and Avenues, - _ _ - 163 
 Table of Distances from Chicago, - - - - 178 
 Index, - -..-__. -1 79 
 
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I. 
 
 GENERAL FACTS AS TO THE 
 CITY OF CHICAGO. 
 
 Chicago, "The Phoenix City 
 of the West," "The Garden City," 
 "The Windy City"— for all these 
 titles are hers — is situated on the 
 southwest shore of Lake Michigan, in 
 latitude 41°, 53', 6.2'"' N., and longi- 
 tude 87^^, 38', 1.2'' W.— being 854 
 miles distant from Baltimore, Md., 
 the nearest point on the Atlantic 
 Coast line, 911 miles from New York, 
 and 2,417 miles from the Pacific 
 Ocean. The City of Chicago, incor- 
 porated March 4, 1837, comprised "the district of country in the 
 County of Cook, etc., known as the east i of the southwest i of 
 section 33, township 40 north, range 14 east, also the east i of 
 sections 6, 7, 18, and 19, all of fractional section 3, and of sec- 
 tions 4, 5, 8, 9 and fractional section 10 (except the southwest 
 fractional i thereof, occupied as a military post, until the same 
 shall become private property), fractional section 15, sections 16, 
 17, 20, 21, and fractional section 22, township 39 north, range 14 
 east." Since then there have been twelve extensions to the city 
 limits. The city of to-day has a lake frontage of about twenty 
 miles, inclusive of the parks at either extremity of the city; this, 
 with a river frontage of forty-one miles affording fine harbors. Its 
 mean elevation is twenty-five feet above Lake Michigan and 582 
 
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 feet above mean sea level. But sixty years old, and yet second 
 city of the United States in point of population, and seventh in 
 the same respect in the entire world, the Wonder City of the World 
 has become the cynosure of the entire universe, especially, in 
 view of the vast World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, that 
 eighth and greatest wonder of the world, as it has well been called. 
 
 With becoming dignity the World's Fair City will greet her 
 visitors; to none will she yield the palm for hotel accommodation 
 and excellence; her railway facilities are beyond cavil; she is the 
 railway center of the entire Republic; while her verdant parks 
 and magnificent boulevards, when they earn foi* her the title of 
 "Garden City, " provoked (on a sight of the Michigan Avenue 
 Boulevard) even that laughing philosopher, Max O'Rell (himself no 
 mean traveler), to declare that it was " the finest street in the world." 
 A forest of lofty buildings, a seething hive of human industry, 
 such is Chicago of the present day; risen rejuvenate from a 
 holocaust more severe than that which an historian of old tragically 
 described in tersely saying, " Between a great city and none, but 
 a single night intervened." 
 
 To the tourist and traveler she has much to exhibit in addition 
 to the greatest Exposition ever seen; the purpose of the following 
 pages being to summarize the material, and shortly to indicate the 
 most noteworthy sights, separating wheat from chaff, and so 
 presenting a restime of the city and its surroundings in an accu- 
 rate and easily accessible manner. 
 
 The Origin and Meaning of the Word Chicago. — An 
 erudite and painstaking correspondent of the Chicago Tribufie 
 traces the word as the locative case of a Cree Indian word mean- 
 ing, primarily, " at the place of the skunk "; derivatively, equaling 
 strong, mighty, and great; and particularly, applied by the 
 Indians to the present city, on the drowning, at some remote 
 period, of an Indian chief of that name in the mouth of the 
 present Chicago River. 
 
 Well named the strong or mighty, as her history shows. 
 
 Location. — The World's Fair City stands upon a site orig- 
 inally one of the most unpromising to be found anywhere. A 
 broad swamp, threaded by sluggish bayous, rank with skunk 
 cabbage, wild garlic, and other unsavory weeds, certainly could 
 
GENERAL FACTS AS TO CHICAGO. 13 
 
 have given but slight ground for predicting a future city. More- 
 over, it is claimed by those whose opinion is entitled to respect, 
 that it was only through a sheer error that the city which should 
 have grown up about the mouth of the St, Joseph, or the Calumet, 
 came to be located around here, on the western side of the lake; 
 and that the land which the Government actually bought for its 
 fort at the mouth of the Chekagou River was a very fair section 
 in Indiana, and not the swamp which was inadvertently taken. 
 
 In early days the stream now known as the Chicago River 
 reached back into the prairie within a very short distance of the 
 Des Plaines (with which it has since been united), leaving only a 
 short portage to be made in a journey from the far Eastern lakes 
 to the mouth of the Mississippi. But even the early residents of 
 the place never dreamed that Chicago would attain commercial 
 prominence, and the time is still within memory when the inhab- 
 itants feared the ruin of their town by canals and railways. To- 
 day, however, it is the center of a full third of the railway mileage 
 of the United States, and the most rapidly prospering city on 
 the continent. 
 
 From the lake, at Water Street, the Chicago River extends west 
 about a half a mile to Canal Street, where it divides into two 
 branches, one extending in a northwesterly direction through that 
 portion of the city, and the other southward, for about a mile and 
 a half, to Fourteenth Street, where it makes a sweep to the west- 
 ward as far as Bridgeport, among the lumber yards. Here it 
 again divides into two unimportant secondary branches (reaching 
 one west and one south), and empties itself into the Illinois and 
 Michigan Canal, through which it is united with the Des Plaines 
 River. 
 
 Thus, the main stem of the Chicago River divides the eastern 
 portion of the city into two parts, one of which is known in com- 
 mon parlance as the " South Side," and the other as the " North 
 Side." These two branches, again, separate the North and South 
 sides from the "West Side," all that portion of the city lying 
 west of these branches being known by this title. Communica- 
 tion between the different portions is kept up by means of fifty- 
 three swing bridges, situated at the more important street cross- 
 ings, and these are further supplemented by three tunnels, one 
 
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GENERAL FACTS AS TO CHICAGO. 15 
 
 connecting the South with the West Side, at Washington Street; 
 the second forming a similar link between the North and South 
 sides, at La Salle Street; and the third is located at Van Buren 
 Street, and is nearly completed. 
 
 History, Population, Climate, and Statistics.— The 
 earliest mention of Chicago is to be found in the writings of the 
 Jesuit, Charlevoix, who records the arrival of a fur trader and 
 interpreter, Nicholas Perrot, in 1671, at the lower end of the 
 ''^ Lac des Illinois'' (Lake Michigan), "where the Miami Indians 
 are." 
 
 Subsequently the site of Chicago was pressed by the adventur- 
 ous feet of Marquette, Joliet, and La Salle, in those pioneer and 
 perilous wanderings which were, indeed, prophetic precursors of 
 the vast tide of white immigration. The first non-autochthonal 
 settler was one Baptiste Point de Saible, a handsome and well-edu- 
 cated negro, wealthy, and a fur trader. His successor was a 
 Frenchman named Le Mai, who, in the early part of i8o4,'»trans- 
 ferred and sold his log cabin to John Kinzie, to whom belongs the 
 title, " Father of Chicago." 
 
 The limits of the present Handy Guide are too confined to 
 permit of any disquisition upon the subsequent early history of 
 the settlement. Upon such matters the literary seeker may well 
 consult the numerous volumes relative to Chicago on the shelves 
 of the Public and Newberry libraries. 
 
 Books on Chicago. — Useful information may be culled 
 from: 
 
 "The Plistory of Chicago," 3 vols., 1670-1884, by A. T. 
 
 Andreas, 1884. 
 
 "Chicago Antiquities," by H. H. Hurlbut, 1881, 
 
 " History of Chicago from 1833-1892," by Charles Cleaver, 
 
 1S92. 
 
 "The Story of Chicago," Major Joseph Kirkland, 1892. 
 "Wau-bun; the Early Days of the Northwest," by Mrs. J. 
 H. Kinzie. 
 
 Sufficient for the purposes of the present may be the follow- 
 irg: 
 
 Historical Summary. — In 1801, a swamp; in 181 1, a small 
 military post, soon to be abandoned, and to be the scene of a ter- 
 rible Indian massacre; in 1821, again an insignificant military 
 
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 station; in 1831, a village of twelve houses, without mail routes, 
 post roads, or postofifice; in 1S41, an incorporated city, with 5,752 
 inhabitants, and an export trade amounting to $328,635; in 1851, 
 rapidly assuming commercial importance; on the eve of possess- 
 ing railway communication with New York; its grain shipments 
 increased to 4,646,831 bushels; its population numbering 34,437; 
 in 1 86 1, its grain, pork, and lumber interests all enormously devel- 
 oped, its population almost quadrupled, and its shipments of 
 breadstuff's increased ten-fold within a single decade; in 1871, 
 rich, proud, and magnificent, bidding fair to outstrip the most 
 famous commercial cities of either the old or new world; but sud- 
 denly, on that memorable October night, almost swept out of 
 existence, only to rise triumphantly from its ashes in more than 
 its former splendor, a monument of indomitable spirit and energy; 
 in 1892, the greatest railroad center, live-stock market, and primary 
 grain port in the world; the scene of the ceaseless activities of 
 over a million and a quarter of eager, restless toilers, attracted by 
 its fame from far and near, and to-day still advancing, with rapid 
 strides, in everything that distinguishes a great metropolitan city. 
 Such, in brief, is the history of Chicago, the Garden City, the 
 Phoenix City, of America, the capital of the wealth-producing 
 West. 
 
 The growth of Chicago has, throughout, been coincident with 
 the development and prosperity of the Western States and Terri- 
 tories; of Illinois and Iowa especially it may be said to have 
 grown with their growth and strengthened with their strength. 
 Young as is Chicago, it was not until after its incorporation as a 
 city that what is now the great State of Iowa received even a ter- 
 ritorial organization; while it was only in 1818 that Illinois, now 
 leading all the other States in cereal productions and mileage of 
 railroads, and even ranking fourth in manufactures, was admitted 
 into the Union, with a population of about 30,000, mainly settled 
 in the southern part of the State. 
 
 The Fort Dearborn Massacre occurred August 15, 1812, at 
 a spot near Eighteenth Street and Indiana Avenue, which is pro- 
 posed to be marked by an appropriate monument, shortly to be 
 erected by Mr. G. M. Pullman. 
 
 Capt. Wells, several other officers and their wives, some 
 
Scale 220 Yards to one Inch. 
 
 MAP OF THE MOUTH OF THE CHICAGO RIVER, 
 
 With Plan of Proposed Piers for Improving the Harbor. 
 
 By Wm. Howard, United States Civil Engineer. February 2i, 1830. 
 
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 seventy regular soldiers, twelve militia, with women and children, 
 making a party of about one hundred all told, were attacked and 
 nearly all butchered by the bloodthirsty and treacherous savages. 
 Near the south end of the Rush Street bridge, on the warehouse 
 of the W. M. Hoyt Company, a marble slab commemorates the 
 ocation and history of the old military post. 
 
 The Great Fire of 1871. — The destructive fire of 1871 
 originated on Sunday night, October 8th, near the corner of 
 Jefferson and DeKoven streets, where Mrs. O'Leary's fractious 
 cow is said to have kicked over a kerosene lamp, setting fire to 
 the contents of the shed. At that time, a strong gale was blowing 
 from the southwest, which soon fanned an insignificant blaze into 
 a sea of flame, and whirled the firebrands on their errands of 
 destruction far in advance of the general conflagration. From 
 Jefferson Street to the river the fire speedily advanced. The many 
 little frame shanties, inhabited mostly by the foreign element, 
 gave it fuel and strength for its attack upon the more substantial 
 buildings. The fire department worked heroically, but with no 
 avail, the men commencing their task in a state of exhaustion, 
 worn out by attendance at smaller fires of the day before. At 
 midnight the west bank of the river was one complete mass of fire. 
 Soon afterward the flames leaped the river, first at Van Buren 
 Street, and subsequently at many other places. The South Side 
 was doomed. All hope of controlling the conflagration was now 
 abandoned. Water seemed only to increase the heat. Nothing 
 but lack of fuel could stop its fearful career. Men watched the 
 destruction of their property, unable to do the least for its pro- 
 tection. Within three hours the flames had traversed the heart of 
 the city, burning from the south branch of the river to the lake, 
 and had leaped the river to the North Side. Buildings blown up 
 on Congress Street prevented the further progress of the fire toward 
 the south. On the North Side, however, nothing could arrest the 
 advancing flames. I-ying in a favorable direction for the wind- 
 driven fire, nothing but entire destruction could be expected. The 
 Waterworks were first assailed, cutting off the last ray of hope in 
 that direction; the business houses next suffered, and then the 
 dwelling houses. From the river to FuUerton Avenue, beyond 
 Lincoln Park, and from the lake almost to Halsted Street, every- 
 
MAP OF BURNED DISTRICT. 
 
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20 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 thing was destroyed, with the single exception of the frame resi- 
 dence of Mr. Mahlon Ogden, which, secluded among the trees of 
 its extensive grounds, was left uninjured. (This house stood until 
 recently, when it was destroyed for the site of the Newberry 
 Library.)' 
 
 Within twenty-four hours nearly 3i square miles of the densely 
 populated city of Chicago had been swept away. The large 
 wholesale and commission houses, which had attracted the trade 
 of the entire Northwest, the depots and rolling stock of the vari- 
 ous railroads, the docks and shipping, everything which helped to 
 make Chicago the great commercial center of the West, lay in 
 ashes. The court house, postoffice, chamber of commerce, and 
 many substantial hotels and other buildings, all had yielded to the 
 destroyer. Brick buildings, stone buildings, buildings that were 
 considered fire-proof, succumbed to the intensity of the heat. 
 Nearly eighteen thousand buildings were destroyed, the entire loss 
 being estimated at no less than $190,000,000, of which only 
 $44,000,000 was covered by insurance. The homes of 98,500 
 persons were consumed; many previously well-to-do residents lost 
 everything they possessed, and were rendered entirely dependent 
 either upon their more fortunate friends or upon the contributions 
 which poured in from almost every part of the world for the relief 
 of the sufferers. It is estimated that 200 persons lost their lives 
 in the conflagration. To add to the terror of the scene, the crim- 
 inal classes became extremely active, until Gen. Phil. H. Sheridan, 
 U. S. A. , ordered some eight companies of United States regulars to 
 the city to act as police, on the request of the Mayor. Before the 
 embers had died out, work was begun, by the removal of the debris, 
 in preparing the way for the magnificent buildings which now hide 
 from view all traces of the memorable fire of 187 1. 
 
 Terrible as the calamity was, it brought some "blessings in its 
 train. The day of the wooden "shanty " was doomed, the palace 
 pile of magnificent architecture rapidly began to replace it, and 
 in so doing to make Chicago celebrated throughout the land. 
 
 An exact representation of the conflagration when at its height 
 is to be found in the Cyclorama of the Chicago Fire, located on 
 Michigan Avenue near Madison Street, where a most readable and 
 graphic description, by a celebrated Chicago preacher. Rev, David 
 
GENERAL FACTS A S TO CHICAGO. 2i 
 
 Swing, is to be had ; that gentleman having been an eye witness 
 of the terrible calamity. 
 
 The Area of the City is 181.5 square miles. It is 24 miles 
 long and 10 miles wide. The popular vote in 1892 was; Cleve- 
 land, 136,525; Harrison, 100,851. 
 
 Climate, Population, etc. — The observations of the Weather 
 Bureau, January i, 1891, to December i, i8gi, show the mean 
 barometric pressure during that period to have been 29.26 inches 
 (corrected for temperature, but not reduced to sea level); the mean 
 annual temperature, 48.70; the mean annual precipitation, 35.55 
 inches; and the mean annual humidity of the air, 72 — 100 repre- 
 senting complete saturation. The maximum annual precipitation 
 was 45.86 inches, in 1883; the minimum, 26.77 inches, in 1886. 
 The highest mean annual temperature was that of 1878, 51.9"; 
 the lowest that of 1875, 45.41°. 
 
 The climate is healthful and invigorating, although the winters 
 are cold and the temperature in summer is liable to great and 
 sudden changes; but an exceptionally well managed health depart- 
 ment succeeds in keeping public health very high. The death 
 rate of 20.25 per 1,000 population (May, 1892) is among the 
 lowest for any city the size of Chicago on the globe. This is a 
 remarkable fact when the unsanitary site, the rapid growth, and 
 the crowded condition of some of its districts, tenanted by 
 foreigners, are considered. It is also to be remembered that the 
 United States census of 1880 gives 15 per cent, more children 
 under five years of age than any other city of 200,000 population 
 in America. 
 
 The death rates of the larger cities in May, 1892, were as 
 follows; 
 
 New York, - - 25.73 P^r 1,000, per annum. 
 
 Boston, - - 23.70 " " " " 
 
 Philadelphia, - - 22.21 " " " " 
 
 Brooklyn, - - 20.55 " 
 
 The population of Chicago, according to the census of 1S90, 
 was 1,099,850, the estimated population January i, 1893, is 
 1,400,000, and by the school census of 1892 it amounted to 
 1,438,010. 
 
 Outside of London it is doubtful if any city in the world can 
 show as large and as varied population as the city of Chicago. 
 
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 Nationalities Comprising the Population of the City 
 of Chicago: 
 
 Hollanders 4,912 
 
 Hungarians ... 4,827 
 
 Swiss 2,735 
 
 Roumanians 4,350 
 
 Canadians 6, 989 
 
 Belgians 682 
 
 Greeks 698 
 
 Spanish 297 
 
 Portuguese 34 
 
 East Indians 28 
 
 West Indians 37 
 
 Sandwich Islanders. . . 31 
 
 Mongolians 1,217 
 
 American 292,463 
 
 German 384,958 
 
 Irish 215,534 
 
 Bohemian 54,209 
 
 Polish 52,756 
 
 Swedish 45,877 
 
 Norwegian 44, 615 
 
 English 33,785 
 
 French 12,963 
 
 Scotch 11,927 
 
 Welsh 2,966 
 
 Russian 9-977 
 
 Danes 9,891 
 
 Italians 9,921 
 
 1,208,669 
 
 The negroes are said to number 13,000. 
 
 Court House and City Hall. 
 
 The Municipality of Chicago is housed in a magnificent 
 twin building, the largest and most imposing of the public edi- 
 fices of Chicago, one of the finest structures devoted to county 
 and municipal purposes in the world. It occupies an entire square, 
 bounded east and west by Clark and La Salle streets, and north 
 and south by Randolph and Washington streets. In style a free 
 treatment of the French Renaissance, it is built of upper silurian 
 limestone, quarried mainly along the Des Plaines River, in this 
 State, and adorned with massive columns of the finest granite. 
 The length of each of the two fa9ades is 340 feet, the width of the 
 entire building 280 feet, and its height from the ground line 124 
 feet. The eastern half, fronting on Clark Street, is occupied by 
 the various officials of Cook County, who are located in spacious 
 and elegant apartments; the rooms devoted to the administration 
 of justice being models of court-room convenience. 
 
 The interiors of the two buildings differ somewhat in arrange- 
 ment, the City Hall being finished in white oak and much color- 
 ing, while the interior of the County Building is plain but rich. 
 The notable apartments are the Council Chamber and the Public 
 Library, on the fourth floor. Elevators are situated arboth ends 
 of the main corridor, and in the rotunda. The entrances to the 
 
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24 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 City Building are on La Salle, Randolph, and Washington streets; 
 those of the County Building, on Clark, Randolph, and Washing- 
 ton streets. The twin buildings cost, completed, $4,400,000. 
 The Public Library occupies the top floor of the City Building. 
 
 The city is divided by the Chicago River and its branches into 
 three sections, knov^^n as the North, South, and West divisions, 
 or, more properly, sides. These are connected by fifty-three 
 swing bridges and three tunnels, the latter at Van Buren, Wash- 
 ington, and La Salle streets. 
 
 In 1892 there were 2,335 miles of streets, with a total area of 
 17,880 acres, and seventy-five miles of drives, within the city 
 limits. 
 
 The Municipal Government of Chicago, like that of most 
 American cities, consists of a Mayor and Common Council; with 
 Departments of Health, Law, Police, Fire, Education, Public 
 Works, Building, and Finance, and the City Clerk's, Treasurer's 
 and Collector's departments. 
 
 The Mayor, City Clerk, Treasurer, Attorney, and Aldermen 
 are elected by the people for a term of two years, the other offi- 
 cers and employes being appointed by the Mayor, or by the 
 heads of the various departments. 
 
 The Mayor's power is supervisory over the various depart- 
 ments, controlling the police, and with a right of veto of any ordi- 
 nance passed by the Council. The Mayor's salary is $7,000 per 
 annum. 
 
 The Common Council, or Board of Aldermen, meet every 
 Monday evening, and is composed of sixty-eight Aldermen, two 
 from each of the thirty-four wards into which the city is divided. 
 
 The Mayor is ex officio the presiding officer of the Common 
 Council, in his absence an Alderman being chosen to fill his place. 
 
 To pass an ordinance over the Mayor's veto requires a two- 
 thirds majority of the Council. 
 
 The city officers and departments have their offices in the 
 City Hall, La Salle Street, between Washington and Randolph. 
 
 Financial. — The bonded debt of the city amounts to $13,545,- 
 400, bearing interest at 33^ to 7 per cent. The total annual 
 interest paid on present bonded debt last year was $825,350.40. 
 The bonded debt has been increased by the issuance of 4 per 
 cent, bonds — $5.000,000 — as authorized by the State Legislature 
 for expenses of the World's Fair, which will make the city debt a 
 little more than $18,500,000. This is a much smaller debt than 
 any other city of a similar size. 
 
GENERAL FACTS AS TO CHICAGO, 25 
 
 Courts, Prisons, and the Bar. 
 COURTS. 
 
 The Higher Courts.— The United States Court of Claims, 
 Circuit, and District courts sit in the Postoffice Building. The 
 Appellate Court of the First District of Illinois sits in room 411, 
 Chicago Opera House Building. The Circuit, Superior, Probate, 
 and County courts of Cook County hold session in the County 
 Building. 
 
 The Criminal Court of Cook County is to be found in the 
 Criminal Court Building, Michigan Street and Dearborn Avenue. 
 
 The Police Courts of Chicago are as follows: 
 
 First District, Harrison Street Station. 
 
 Second District, Maxwell Street Station. 
 
 Third District, Desplaines Street Station. 
 
 Fourth District, West Chicago Avenue Station. 
 
 Fifth District, Chicago Avenue Station. 
 
 Sixth District, Thirty fifth Street Station. 
 
 Seventh District, Lake Avenue Station. 
 . Eighth District, Stock Yards Station. 
 
 Ninth District, Englewood Station. 
 
 Tenth District, Sheffield Avenue Station. 
 
 PRISONS. 
 
 The Criminal Court and Jail is located on Dearborn Ave- 
 nue, Michigan, and Illinois streets. The jail contains 300 cells. 
 It may be visited at the same time as the North Side Water Works 
 and Lincoln Park. Visiting days, Tuesday and Friday. 
 
 The Bridewell, or House of Correction, is located at 
 South California Avenue, near West Twenty-third Street, and is 
 reached by Blue Island Avenue cars. The building cost $1,500,- 
 000, and is far from noteworthy or satisfactory. Of late years it 
 has been much overcrowded ; so much so as to hasten the con- 
 struction of the wing lately completed. 
 
 The States Prison, or Penitentiary, for the detention of 
 criminals sentenced, for more serious offenses, to longer terms 
 of imprisonment, is situated at Joliet, forty miles distant from the 
 city, and is reached by the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Rail- 
 way. Depot, Van Buren and Sherman streets. Round trip, $1. 
 
 Prisoners awaiting trial before justices for petty offenses are 
 confined at the various police courts or stations. 
 
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 The Police Force consists of 2,670 men, a much smaller 
 number in proportion to the population and the amount of crime 
 than is usually considered necessary. The force is under the com- 
 mand of a general superintendent. The numerical weakness of 
 the force is to some extent made up for by the use of the tele- 
 graph and the patrol wagon. There were 70,550 arrests made in 
 1891, and fines aggregating $464,850 were imposed. Two officers 
 were killed and sixty-two wounded in the execution of their duty. 
 
 Patrol Service. — There are thirty-five police stations, includ- 
 ing the Central Detail at the City Hall, and the officers patrolling 
 streets have frequently to report to their respective stations by 
 means of telephones placed in the 675 patrol boxes, being able 
 to summon a patrol wagon, ambulance, or fire engines by the 
 same method. There are thirty-nine patrol wagons and 179 horses 
 in the service. 
 
 The Police Headquarters and the Detective Bureau are sit- 
 uated on the first floor and in the basement of the City Hall. 
 Number of detectives, about fifty. The Central Detail are picked 
 men, averaging six feet in height, and do day patrol duty at 
 bridges, crossings, and depots in the heart of the city. 
 
 The Health Department is under the charge of a Commis- 
 sioner of Health, and has offices in the basement of the City Hall 
 having a large corps of inspectors employed. 
 
 The Fire Departmenf and Insurance. 
 
 The Fire Department, with headquarters in the basement 
 of the City Hall, possesses seventy-two steam fire engines, twenty- 
 two chemical engines, twenty-eight hook and ladder trucks, two 
 river fire boats, one stand-pipe and water-tower, and 421 horses, 
 with a staff of 970 men. By the fire alarm telegraph system, 
 established at a cost of nearly a million of dollars, an alarm can 
 be instantaneously flashed to the nearest station from any part of 
 the city. Strangers can not remain long in the city without hav- 
 ing an opportunity of judging of the efficiency of the Fire Depart- 
 ment, there being, on an average, three fires a day. With such 
 alacrity are the alarms responded to, that the loss occasioned by 
 the actual fires of 1891 is remarkably slight in comparison with 
 
GENERAL FACTS AS TO CHICAGO. 
 
 27 
 
 the experience of other cities. It has an adjunct of considerable 
 importance in the Fire Insurance Patrol, established in 1871 by the 
 underwriters of the city, and an organization admirably equipped 
 and highly efficient. 
 
 The Crib, two miles off shore, in Lake Michigan. 
 
 Drainage, Water, and Lights. 
 
 Drainage. — Chicago deriving its water supply from Lake 
 Michigan, the disposal of the drainage of the city was a serious 
 and perplexing problem until, by a triumph of engineering skill, 
 
28 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 the current of the Chicago River was reversed, and the stream 
 made to run out of Lake Michigan into the Illinois and Michigan 
 Canal, and thence through the Illinois River to the Mississippi. 
 The drainage system is very thorough. There are over 888 miles 
 of sewer, with more than 30,468 catch basins and 33,726 man- 
 hole openings. Engineers are always busy with plans for improv- 
 ing the sewerage. 
 
 The Water Supply. — Foremost among the public works of 
 Chicago is the costly and unique contrivance by which it draws 
 its supply of water from the lake. Two miles from the shore 
 there is fixed a very substantial structure, known, for the want of a 
 better name, as the " Crib," within which is an iron cylinder, 
 nine feet in diameter, going down thirty-one feet below the bottom 
 of the lake and connecting with two distinct tunnels, leading to 
 separate pumping works on shore. The first tunnel constructed, 
 communicating with the pumping works at the foot of Chicago 
 Avenue, is five feet in diameter; this was commenced March 17, 
 1864, and finished March 25, 1867, costing $457,844.95. The 
 second tunnel, conveying water to the West Side Works, at the 
 corner of Blue Island Avenue and Twenty-second Street, is seven 
 feet in diameter and six miles in length. At the shore end of 
 each tunnel the water is forced by enormous engines through the 
 city. The total outlay for the entire system was about $17,000,000. 
 There are over 1,346 miles of main and distributing pipes, and 
 the daily capacity of all the plants is 250,000,000 gallons. 
 
 The North Side Works may be visited at the same time as 
 Lincoln Park and the Lake Shore Drive. (See Parks and Boule- 
 vards.) The tower (175 feet) affords one of the finest views of the 
 city and harbor. Its ascent is safe and easy. The key can be 
 obtained from the engineer. 
 
 The West Side Works are in the lumber district. They may 
 be reached by the Blue Island Avenue cars from Madison Street. 
 
 In 1887 a contract was entered into for the construction of a 
 new tunnel from the foot of Peck Court, to be eight feet in 
 diameter, and to extend 21,441 feet (four miles) out into the lake, 
 connecting there in forty-five feet of water with a new crib. 
 Work was begun June 11, 1888. The crib is in position, being 
 two miles beyond a disused crib, and the tunnel completed. The 
 
GENERAL FACTS AS TO CHICAGO. 29 
 
 boring was completed June 22, 1892. The capacity of the new 
 tunnel is 130,000,000 gallons daily, and it is in regular use. 
 
 Steamers and sailing yachts ply to the crib and breakwater, in 
 the summer months (round trip 25 cents), from the Lake Front at 
 the foot of Van Buren Street. 
 
 Illumination. — The city now lights 2,235 miles of streets, 
 mainly with gas, for which there are over 37,000 lamps; but also 
 by 1,092 electric arc lamps, the wires for which are principally 
 carried in the subways, a system of iron tubes laid underneath the 
 pavements of the principal streets. 
 
II. 
 
 THE ARRIVAL IN CHICAGO. 
 
 Advice to Inexperienced Travelers. 
 
 An arrival m Chicago, or any other large city, alone and for 
 the first time, is an ordeal to which many persons look forward 
 with justifiable dread. "What shall they do first — whither shall 
 they go — what arrangements are to be made regarding baggage — 
 how shall they find the proper way — how escape mischievous mis-, 
 leading of some sort and unnecessary expenses? These ques- 
 tions occur to many inexperienced travelers; and it is the purpose 
 of this chapter to answer them, as to Chicago, as explicitly as 
 possible. 
 
 The vast city has many entrances. Indeed, as has been 
 remarked, a passenger may enter Chicago in a luxuriously fur- 
 nished sleeping car, and, without leaving it, reach one of the prin- 
 cipal seaboard cities of the United States, as well as railway lines 
 leading into Canada on the north and Mexico on the south. It 
 is estimated that fully 175,000 people arrive and depart each day. 
 
 Several regular lines of steamships serve to convey passengers 
 from lake ports, and, especially in summer time, when the water 
 route is very pleasant traveling, are well patronized. 
 
 Railroad Depots. — Chicago is the center of 76,865 miles of 
 railroad. Seven terminal depots accommodate the trains of thirty- 
 five different companies, and about 100 way-stations within the 
 city limits provide for the convenience of local passengers. 
 The Union Depot, Canal Street, used by the Pittsburg, Fort 
 Wayne & Chicago, the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Chicago, 
 Milwaukee & St. Paul, and other railroads; the depot of the Mich- 
 igan Southern and Rock Island roads, Van Buren Street; that of 
 
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 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 the Chicago & North- Western, Wells and Kinzie streets; Dearborn 
 Station, Dearborn and Polk streets, and the Grand Central Depot, 
 are among the most prominent buildings in the city. 
 
 The first named is one of the largest and finest railroad depots 
 in the world. Fronting on Canal Street, and extending from 
 West Madison Street to West Adams Street, a distance of 1,200 
 feet, it occupies four entire blocks. Alighting under cover, pas- 
 sengers enter the lofty, commodious, and richly decorated ticket 
 office, from which they pass either to the platforms or to any of 
 the waiting rooms, retiring-rooms, or restaurants, with which this 
 model depot is provided. 
 
 Union Depot, Canal and Adams Streets, used by the P., Ft. W. & C; C, B. & Q., 
 C, M. & St. P., and C. & A. 
 
 The following list of railways, depots, and ticket offices will 
 be found useful: 
 
 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe.— Depot, Polk Street and 
 Third Avenue. Central ticket office, 212 Clark Street. 
 
 Baltimore & Ohio. — Grand Central Depot, Fifth Avenue and 
 Harrison Street. City ticket office, 193 Clark Street. 
 
THE ARRIVAL IN CHICAGO, 
 
 33 
 
 Chicago & Erie. — Depot, Polk Street and Third Avenue. 
 General offices, Phenix Building, cor. Clark and Jackson streets. 
 City ticket office, 242 Clark Street. 
 
 Chicago & Alton. — Union Depot, Canal and Adams streets, 
 West Side. General offices, Monadnock Building, cor. Jackson 
 and Dearborn streets. City ticket office, 195 Clark Street. 
 
 Chicago & Eastern Illinois. — Depot, Polk Street and Third 
 Avenue. Generaloffices, First National Bank Building, cor. Dear- 
 born and Monroe streets. City ticket office, 204 Clark Street. 
 
 Dearborn Station, cor. Fourth Avenue and Polk Street, used by C. & G.T.: Chi. &: 
 Erie; C. & E. I.; L., N. A. & C; A., T. & S. F., and W., St. L. & P. Rys. 
 
 Chicago & Grand Trunk. — Depot, Polk Street and Third 
 Avenue. General office, Monadnock Building, cor. Jackson and 
 Dearborn streets. Central ticket office, 103 Clark Street. 
 
 Chicago & Northern Pacific. — Grand Central Depot, Fifth 
 Avenue and Harrison Street. General offices at Grand Central 
 Depot, Harrison Street and Fifth Avenue. 
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 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 Chicago & North-Western. — Depot, Wells and Kinzie 
 streets, North Side. General offices, N. W. cor. Fifth Avenue 
 and Lake Street. Central ticket office, 206-208 South Clark 
 Street. 
 
 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. — Union Depot, Canal and 
 Adams streets, West Side. City ticket office, 211 Clark Street, 
 Quincy Building. 
 
 Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis (" The 
 Big 4"). — Illinois Central Depot, foot of Lake and Randolph 
 streets. Central ticket office, 234 Clark Street. 
 
 C. & N.-W. Ry. Depot, cor. Wells and Kinzie Streets. 
 
 Chicago, Milwaukee & St, Paul. — Union Depot, Canal 
 and Adams streets, West Side. Central ticket office, 207-209 
 Clark Street. General offices, Rand-McNally Building, cor. 
 Adams and La Salle streets. 
 
 Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific— Depot, Van Buren and 
 Sherman streets. General office. Van Buren Street Station. 
 Central ticket office, S. W. cor. Clark and Washington streets. 
 
 Chicago, St. Louis & Pittsburg.— Union Depot, Canal 
 and Adams streets. 
 
 Chicago Great Western. — Grand Central Depot, Harrison 
 Street and Fifth Avenue. General offices, Phenix Building, Jack- 
 son Street and Pacific Avenue. City ticket office, 188 Clark Street. 
 
 Illinois Central. — Depot, foot of Lake and Randolph streets. 
 
THE ARRIVAL IN CHICAGO, 35 
 
 General offices, 78 Michigan Avenue, near passenger depot. Cen- 
 tral ticket office, 194 Clark Street. 
 
 Lake Shore & Michigan Southern. — Depot, Van Buren 
 and wSherman streets. Chicago general office, Van Buren vStreet 
 Station. Central ticket office, 66 Clark Street. 
 
 , Louisville, New Albany & Chicago (" Monon Route").— 
 Depot, Polk Street and Third Avenue. General offices, Monon 
 Block, 320 Dearborn Street. City office, 73 Clark Street. 
 
 Michigan Central. — Depot, foot of Lake and Randolph 
 streets. General office, Monadnock Building, cor. Jackson and 
 Dearborn streets. City ticket office, 67 Clark Street, S. E. cor. 
 Randolph. 
 
 Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western. — City ticket office, 
 197 Clark Street. 
 
 New York, Lake Erie & Western.— Dearborn Station, 
 cor. Polk Street and Third Avenue. Chicago general offices, 
 Phenix Building, cor. Clark and Jackson streets. City ticket 
 office, 242 Clark Street. 
 
 Northern Pacific. — Grand Central Depot, Harrison Street 
 and Fifth Avenue. City ticket office, 210 Clark Street. 
 
 Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago.— Union Depot, Canal 
 and Adams streets. City ticket office. Grand Pacific Hotel, cor. 
 Clark and Jackson streets. 
 
 Union Pacific. — City ticket office, igr Clark Street. 
 
 Wabash.— Depot, Polk Street and Third Avenue. City 
 ticket office, 201 Clark Street. 
 
 Wisconsin Central Line.— Grand Central Depot, Harrison 
 Street and Fifth Avenue. City ticket office, 205 Clark Street. 
 
 Twenty-eight railroads, operating forty systems, with nearly 
 40,000 miles of road, converge and center in Chicago, thus making 
 it the greatest railroad city of the world. Two hundred and sixty- 
 two through, express, and mail trains arrive or leave each day. In 
 the same period, 660 local, suburban, or accommodation trains 
 arrive or depart; 274 merchandise freight trains, and 164 grain, 
 stock, and lumber trains reaching Chicago or leaving it in every 
 twenty-four hours; thus making a grand total of 1,360 as the 
 average daily movement of all classes of trains, an aggregate 
 reached by no other city in the universe. 
 
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THE ARRIVAL IN CHICAGO. 37 
 
 Baggage Transfers and Delivery. 
 
 Various thoroughly reliable companies, at moderate charges, 
 will convey baggage from or to the depots, or to any city address. 
 The Frank Parmelee Company is to be found at any depot, or 
 Brink's City Express reached by inquiry of a hotel clerk. 
 
 Outgoing Baggage. — When you get ready to leave the city, 
 an expressman will call at your house and take and deliver your 
 baggage at any station for from 25 to 50 cents a piece. 
 Parmelee's Express Company will check your baggage at the 
 house to your destination in any part of the country, so that you 
 need have no trouble with it at the railway station; but you must 
 have bought your railway ticket in advance, and must pay 10 
 cents aditional for the accommodation. 
 
 Hack Ordinance. 
 
 Rates of Fare for Hacks, Cabs, and Other Two-horse 
 Vehicles. — For conveying one or two passengers from one rail- 
 road depot to another railroad depot, $1. For conveying one or 
 two passengers not exceeding one mile, $1. For conveying one 
 or two passengers any distance over one mile and less than two 
 miles, $1,50. For each additional two passengers of same party 
 or family, 50 cents. For conveying one or two passengers in 
 said • city any distance exceeding two miles, $2. For each addi- 
 tional passenger of the same party or family, 50 cents. For 
 conveying children between five and fourteen years of age, half 
 the above price may be charged for like distances; but for children 
 under five years of age no charge shall be made — provided that 
 the distance from any railroad depot, steamboat landing, or hotel 
 to any other railroad depot, steamboat landing, or hotel, shall in 
 all cases be estimated as not exceeding one mile. For the use by 
 day of any hackney coach or other vehicle drawn by two horses 
 or other animals, with one or more passengers, per day, $8. 
 For the use of any such carriage or vehicle by the hour, with one 
 or more passengers, with the privilege of going from place to place, 
 and stopping as often as may be required, as follows: For the first 
 hour, $2; for each additional hour or part of an hour, $r. Every 
 passenger shall be allowed to have conveyed upon such vehicle, 
 without charge, his ordinary traveling baggage, not exceeding in 
 any case one trunk and twenty-five pounds of other baggage. 
 For every additional package, where the whole weight of baggage 
 is over one hundred pounds, if conveyed to any place within the 
 city limits, the owner or driver shall be permitted to charge 15 
 cents. 
 
38 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 Omnibus and Baggage Transfer Rates. — Omnibuses run 
 between all the depots and to all the principal hotels, connecting 
 with all passenger trains. The rate of fare to or from any depot 
 or hotel is 50 cents, payable in exchange for a ticket to the agent 
 on the train or to the collector in the vehicle. The price charged 
 by the same company (Parmelee's) for transferring baggage to or 
 from any train, and to or from any place within the city limits, is 
 50 cents for the first piece and 25 cents for each piece additional. 
 
 HANSOM CAB ORDINANCE. 
 Rates of Fare for Hansom Cabs and Other One-horse 
 Vehicles. — The price or rates of fare to be asked or demanded 
 by the owners or drivers of cabs or other vehicles drawn by one 
 horse or other animal for the conveyance of passengers for hire, 
 shall be not more than as follows: One mile, or fraction thereof, 
 for each passenger for the first mile, 50 cents. One mile, or frac- 
 tion thereof, for any distance after first mile, for one or more pas- 
 sengers, 25 cents. For the first hour, 75 cents. For each quar- 
 ter-hour additional after first hour, 20 cents. For service outside 
 of city limits and in the parks, for the first hour, |i. For each 
 quarter-hour additional after the first hour, 25 cents. The pro- 
 vision regarding amount of baggage allowed free, and rates of 
 charge for excess, is the same as in the Hack Ordinance. 
 
 Hotels, Lodging Houses, and Restaurants. 
 HOTELS. 
 
 Chicago has reason to be proud of its hotels, which are almost 
 numberless, and year by year increase in excellence of service and 
 splendor of appointments. The World's Fair City stands unri- 
 valed for its accommodations for visitors. There are at the 
 present time about 750 hotels, large and small, with a united 
 capacity sufficient to care comfortably for at least 150,000 extra 
 guests. This is entirely outside of the enormous number of 
 boarding and private houses, which, in an emergency, would 
 probably double this estimate. It is quite within reason to look 
 forward to an increase of at least one-fourth more in these accom- 
 modations before the opening of the Fair. In addition to the 
 above large number of hotels, there are in Chicago at the present 
 time over 700 restaurants and cafes, with a feeding capacity of at 
 least 100,000 persons daily. The hotels are scattered all over the 
 city, and run the scale of prices from the palatial accommodations 
 offered at some, $6 to $10 per day, to the cheap (not necessarily 
 also nasty) 50 cent or $1 house. 
 
THE ARRIVAL IN CHICAGO. 
 
 39 
 
 Extras. — In all hotels, baths (when no bath is attached to the 
 bedroom which you occupy) and fires, or, in some cases, the turn- 
 ing on of steam heat, are charged as extras. The fire is usually 
 one of hard coal in an open grate, and costs from 50 cents to 
 %\ a day; and 50 cents is the ordinary charge for a bath. In 
 almost every hotel will be found telegraph offices; and in many, 
 railway ticket offices, and agents of the baggage transfer compa- 
 nies and carriage lines. These men are authorized, and may be 
 dealt with without hesitation. 
 
 The Granada Hotel, Corner of Rush and Ohio Streets. 
 
 The following is a list of pruicipal hotels in or near the 
 business district : 
 
 Atlantic Hotel (American), Van Buren and Sherman. Rates $2.00 to 
 
 $4.00. 
 Auditorium Hotel (American), Congress and Michigan Ave. Rates $5.00 
 
 to .IfeSO.OO. 
 Auditorium Hotel (European), Congress and Michigan Ave. Rates $5.00 
 
 to $20.00. 
 Barnes House (European), Randolph and Canal. Rates 75c. to $1.50. 
 
40 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 Briggs House (American), Randolph and Fifth Ave. Rates $2.50 to $3.50. 
 Brunswick Hotel (American), Adams and Michigan Ave. Rates $2.50 
 
 to $4.00. 
 Burke's Hotel (European), 140-142 Madison. Rates $1.00 to $2.50. 
 Clifton House (American), Wabash Ave. and Monroe. Rates $2.50 to $3.50. 
 Commercial Hotel (American), Lake and Dearborn. Rates $2 00 to $3.00. 
 Continental Hotel (American), Wabash Ave. and Madison. Rates $2.00 
 
 to $3.00. 
 Cosmopolitan Hotel (European), 305-307 Clark. Rates 75c. to $1.50. 
 Deming Hotel (European;, Clark and Madison. Rates $1.00 to $2.50. 
 Gault House (American). Madison and Clinton. Rates $2.00 to $^.00. 
 Goldston's Hotel (American), 2^-288 Wabash Ave. Rates $2.00 to $3.00. 
 
 (Jewish.) 
 Gore's Hotel (European), 266-274 Clark. Rates $1 .00 to $3.00. 
 Granada Hotel (European and American), Rush and Ohio. (Private 
 
 and high-priced.) 
 Grand Pacific Hotel (American and European), Clark and Jackson. 
 
 Rates $3.00 to $15.00. 
 Great Northern Hotel (European), Jackson and Dearborn. Rates 
 
 $2.00 to $8.00. 
 Hotel Bordeaux (Eui'opean), 339 Michigan Ave. Rates $2.50 to $5.00. 
 Hotel Brevoort (European), 143-145 Madison. Rates $1 .00 to $3.00. 
 Hotel Brewster (European), corner Dearborn and Van Buren. Rates 
 
 75c. to $2.00. 
 Hotel Cortland (American). 10-22 Adams. Rates $2.00 to $3.00. 
 Hotel Grace (European), Clark and Jackson. Rates $1.00 to $3.00. 
 Hoi el Henrici (European), 70-72 Randolph. Rates 75c. to $2.00. 
 Hotel Imperial (European), Twelfth and Michigan Ave. Rates $3.00 
 
 to $15.00. 
 Hotel Stamford (European), Thirteenth and Michigan Ave. Rates $2.50 
 
 to $5.00. 
 Kuhn's Hotel (European), 165-169 Clark. Rates $1.00 to $3.00. 
 Leland Hotel (American), Michigan Ave. and Jackson. Rates $3.00 
 
 to $10.00. 
 McCoy's Hotel (European), Van Buren and Clark. Rates $1.00 to $3.00. 
 McEwan's Hotel (European), 81-95 W. Madison. Rates 75c. to $1.50. 
 Madison House (European^ 164-166 Madison. Rates 75c. to $1 .50. 
 Marquette Hotel (European), Adams and Dearborn. Rates $1.00 to $3.00. 
 Merchants' Hotel (European), Lake and Clark. Rates 75c. to $1.50. 
 Palmer House (American), Monroe and State. Rates $3.00 to $15.00. 
 Revere House (American), Clark and Michigan, Rates $2.50 to $4.00. 
 Richelieu Hotel (Em'opean), Michigan Ave., near Jackson. Rates $3.00 
 
 to $17.00. 
 Saratoga Hotel (European), 155-161 Dearborn. Rate $1.00. 
 Sherman House (American), Clark and Randolph. Rates $3.50 to 4»6.00. 
 Tremont House (American), Lake and Dearborn. Rates $3.00 to $5.00. 
 Victoria Hotel (American), Van Buren and Michigan Ave. Rates $4.00 
 
 to $8.00. 
 Virginia Hotel (American), Rush and Ohio. (Private and high-priced.) 
 Washington Hotel (European), Madison and Canal. Rates 75c. to $1.50. 
 Wellington Hotel (European), Wabash Ave. and Jackson. Rates $3.00 
 
 to $15.00. 
 Windsor Hotel (European), 145-153 Dearborn. Rates $1.00 to $2.50. 
 
 The following- is a list of some of the leading hotels outside 
 the business district : 
 Alabama Hotel (American and European), Bowen and Berkley Ave. 
 
 Rates $2.50 to $3.00. ^ „ 
 
 Alhambra Hotel (American), State and Archer Ave. Rates $2..50 to $3.50. 
 Chicago Beach Hotel, Fifty-first and East End Ave. Rates $4.00 to 
 
 $15.00, 
 
THE ARRIVAL IN CHICAGO. 
 
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 Clarendon Hotel (American), Clark and Ontario. Rates $2.50 to $4.00. 
 Columbia Hotel (American and European), Thirty-first and State. Kates 
 
 $-2.00 to $4.00. 
 Cornell Avenue Hotel (European), Cornell Ave., between Fifty-first and 
 
 Fifty-second. Rates $1.50 to $4.00. 
 Hampden Hotel (Amei'ican and Euroiaean), Thirty-ninth and Langley 
 
 Ave. Rates $2.00 to Sr^-OO. 
 Hotel Alvord (American), N.-W. corner Oakwood Boulevard and Cottage 
 
 Grove Ave. Rate $2.00. 
 Hotel Beatrice (European), Fifty-seventh and Madison Ave. Rates $2.50 
 
 to $5.00. 
 Hotel Buckner (American and Em'opean), .5479 Lake Ave. Rates $2.50 
 
 and upwards. 
 Hotel Delavan (European), Ontario and Clark. Rates $1.00 to $2.50. 
 Hotel Drexel (American) 3956 Drexel Boulevard, hates $2.0J to $4.00. 
 Hotel Edwards (American), 328 to 336 Washington Boulevard. Rates 
 
 $1.50 to $2 50. 
 
 The Auditorium Hotel corner of Michigan Avenue and Congress Street. 
 I 
 Hotel Holland (American and Em'opean), Fifty-third and Lake Ave. 
 
 Rates $2.50 to $4.00. 
 Hotel La Vita, 211 Dearborn Ave. (American). Rates $2.50 to $4.50. 
 Hotel Metropole (American and European), Twenty -third and Michigan 
 
 Ave. Rates $4 00 to $15.00. 
 Hotel Norwalk (American and European), opposite South Park Station. 
 
 Rates $2.00 and upwards. 
 Hotel Vendome (American), Centre and North Park aves. Rates $2.00 
 
 to $4.00. 
 Hotel Willard (American), Eighteenth and Wabash Ave. Rates $2.50 
 
 to $3.50. 
 Hotel Woodruff (American), 2103 Wabash Ave. Rates $2.50 to $5.00. 
 Hyde Park Hotel (American), Fifty-first and Lake Ave. Rates $3.00 
 
 to $8.00. 
 
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 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 Julian Hotel (American), Sixty-third and Stewart Ave. Rates $3.00 to 
 
 $6.00. 
 Lexington Hotel (American), Twenty-second and Michigan Ave. Rates 
 
 $3.50 to $2.5.00. 
 Oakland Hotel (American and European), Oakwood Ave. and Drexel 
 
 Boulevard. Rates $2.50 to $5.00. 
 Southern Hotel (American), Twenty-second and Wabash Ave. Rates 
 
 $2.00 to $4.00. 
 Strickland Hotel (European), Lake Ave., between Thirty-eighth and 
 
 Thirty-ninth. Rates $1.50 to $6.00. 
 The Albany, 2400 Wabash Ave. (American). Rates $1.50 and upwards. 
 The Columbia European, 196 Fifty -fifth. Rates $1.50 and upwards. 
 The Mecca Hotel (American and European), Thirty-fourth and State. 
 
 Rates $1.U0 to $4.00. 
 The Parkside Hotel (European), Stony Island Ave. and Six y-third. 
 
 Rates $2.50 to $6.00. 
 The PuUman Hotel (American and European), Fifty-fifth, Washington 
 
 and Madison aves. Rates $2.00 to $5.00. 
 Transit House (American), Union Stock Yards. Rates $2.00 to $3.50. 
 West End Hotel (American), 503 West Madison, Rates $1.50 to $2.50. 
 Westminster Hotel (American), 264 and 266 North Clark. Rates $i.00 to 
 
 $3 50. 
 Wyndham Hotel (American), 2932 and 2934 Prairie Ave. Rates $2.00 
 
 to $3.50. 
 Yorkshire Hotel (American), 1837 Michigan Ave. Rates $2.50 to $3..'50. 
 
 The Virginia, corner of Rush and Oiiio Streets. 
 
 The Virginia, corner Rush and Ohio streets, was erected by 
 Mr. Leander J. McCormick, so well known from his long con- 
 nection with the McCormick reaper, and every detail of construc- 
 tion and furnishing has been carried out with the intention to 
 produce an absolutely Jire-proof building, and a finished hotel 
 second to no other. 
 
THE ARRIVAL IX CHICAGO. 43 
 
 The hotel is conducted on the American plan. It is located in 
 the most fashionable residence section, and yet in such close 
 proximity to the business district that guests can reach the City 
 Ilall, Board of Trade, theaters, etc., in a few moments' time. 
 
 To those seeking quiet and luxurious surroundings, the Vir- 
 ginia offers advantages possessed by no other hotel in the city. 
 
 Lodging and Boarding Houses. 
 
 Furnished Rooms. — Private lodgings or " furnished rooms," 
 as the Chicago phrase goes, are preferred to a hotel by many 
 persons, and in some respects are to be recommended. A list of 
 advertisements is to be found in any of the daily papers, while an 
 advertisement inserted by any visitor will produce a host of replies, 
 from which selection can be made after inspection and discussion 
 of terms. This is by far the best method to pursue in this respect. 
 
 Boarding Houses. — These are to be obtained in the same 
 manner as furnished rooms. The prices vary from $6 for the 
 cheapest to six times that amount per week, according to location, 
 cuisine, and accommodations. They number over 1,100. 
 
 Baths. — At every hotel, and in all of the larger barber shops 
 in Chicago, a bath may be obtained, either hot, cold, or shower, 
 with soap and towels, uniform price 25 cents. Russian and Turk- 
 ish baths are numerous, the principal ones being at the Palmer 
 House, Monroe and State streets; Grand Pacific Hotel, Clark and 
 Jackson streets; McCoy's Hotel, Clark and Van Buren streets; 
 and Hotel Brevoort, 143-145 Madison Street. 
 
 Resiaurants. 
 
 General Restaurants. — Few cities in the world are better 
 supplied with restaurants and eating houses of every kind than 
 Chicago, and a very large number of the city's inhabitants live 
 wholly at them. Seven hundred and over in number, they are to 
 be found in every street of the city, and vary from the grandeur 
 and excellence of cuisine to be found at the Richelieu, Auditorium, 
 or Kinsley's, 105 Adams Street (the Chicago Delmonico), to the 
 5 cent "beaneries" of savory South Clark Street. The restau- 
 rants of the principal hotels are good and reliable; besides these. 
 
THE CAMBRIDGE APARTMENT AND HOTEL BUILDING, 
 Corner of Thirty-ninth Street and Ellis Avenue. 
 
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THE ARRIVAL IN CHICAGO. 45 
 
 Chapin & Gore's, 73 Monroe Street, Burke's, The Saratoga, The 
 Lakeside, Kohlsaat's, 196 Clark Street, The Grand Pacific, 240 
 Clark Street, and the Columbia Lunch Room, 148 Monroe vStreet, 
 are worthy of a visit, and excellent in fare. 
 
 Oyster Saloons are common everywhere, the most prominent 
 of which are Rector's Oyster House, Dearborn and Monroe streets, 
 and the Boston Oyster House, 120 Madison Street. 
 
 Ladies are not supposed to go to the chop houses. Their 
 favorite luncheon places, when shopping, are at the magnificent 
 restaurants provided in the large stores. Especially favored by 
 the fair sex are the restaurants provided in large department 
 stores, such as Marshall Field & Co.'s, Mandel's, Carson Pirie's, 
 The Fair, and Siegel, Cooper & Co.'s. Many restaurants specially 
 reserve seats for ladies, and so announce on signs at their doors. 
 
 Foreign Consuls. 
 
 The various Foreign Consuls located in Chicago, useful in 
 many respects to tourists, are set out below: 
 
 Argentine Republic, P. S. Hudson, 83 Jackson Street. 
 
 Austria-Hungary , Henry Claussenius, Consul; Edward Claus- 
 senius. Vice Consul, 78 and 80 Fifth Avenue. 
 
 Belgium, Charles Henrotin, 167 Dearborn Street. 
 
 Denmark, Otto A. Dreier, Vice-Consul, 209 Fremont Street. 
 
 France, Edmond Bruwaert, Consul General; Jules Heilmann, 
 Chancellor, 70 La Salle Street. 
 
 German Empire, Dr. Ludwig Arendt, Acting Consul, Room 
 25 Borden Block. 
 
 Great Britain, Colonel Hayes Sadler, Consul; R. H. Hayes 
 Sadler, Vice Consul, Room 4, 72 Dearborn Street. 
 
 Italy, Conte V. Manassero di Costligliole, Consul, Room i, 
 no La Salle Street. 
 
 Mexico, Felipe Berriozabal, Jr., Consul, Room 30, 126 Wash- 
 ington Street. 
 
 Netherlands , Geo. Birkhoff, Jr., Consul, 85 Washington Street. 
 
 Russia, P. de Thai, Consul, 2426 Prairie Avenue. 
 
 Sweden and N 01 way ^ Peter Svanoe, Vice Consul, Room i, 153 
 Randolph Street. 
 
 Switzerland, Louis Boerlin, Consul; Julius Wegmann, Vice 
 Consul, 165 Wabash Avenue. 
 
 Turkey, Charles Henrotin, Consul, 167 Dearborn Street. 
 
III. 
 
 GETTING ABOUT THE CITY 
 
 A few words as to the various methods of getting about the 
 city will be appropriate and useful: 
 
 Elevated Railways. — One of the few matters in which Chi- 
 cago is not well abreast of the times is in relation to elevated rail- 
 roads. The reasons given are various, and some seem strange, if true. 
 With alleyways made, as it were, for the necessary structure, Chi- 
 cago has but one line, and that on the South Side, denuded of half 
 its usefulness by the location of its depot, on Congress Street, 
 away from the business center. This line, which is located in 
 the alley between Wabash Avenue and State Street, is intended to 
 serv'^e as one of the principal routes to the World's Fair grounds. 
 It has twenty locomotives, sixty cars, thirty-seven miles of track, 
 and will cost when completed $6,750,000. Partially opened for 
 traffic on June 6, 1892, it will, when completed, reach Jackson 
 Park in thirty two minutes. The stations are: Congress Street 
 (down town terminus), Twelfth, Eighteenth, Twenty-second, 
 Twenty-sixth, Twenty-ninth, Thirty-first, Thirty-third, Thirty- 
 fifth, Thirty-ninth, Indiana Avenue (here the line crosses to the 
 alley between Prairie and Calumet avenues), Forty-third, Forty-sev- 
 enth, Fifty-first, Fifty-fifth, Fifty-eighth, Sixty-first, South Park, 
 Cottage Grove, Lexington, Madison, Stony Island, and Jack- 
 son Park. Fare, 5 cents single journey. The completion of the 
 road past Fortieth is being rapidly hastened ready for World's 
 Fair traffic, and the extension of the system into the heart of 
 Chicago is confidently hoped for by the company. Projects are also 
 afoot to provide "L" roads for the West and South sides, the 
 Council Committees on Streets and Alleys, West and South, having 
 
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GETTING ABOUT THE CITY. 47 
 
 decided to recommend to the Council for passage an ordinance 
 granting the Chicago & Suburban Rapid Transit Company a 
 franchise to maintain an elevated road on the West and South 
 sides. The ordinance provides for a route from Lake Street to 
 the South Branch, between Canal and Morgan streets, thence 
 across the river and to the city line, between Wentworth and 
 Western avenues. One branch is to run between Thirty-ninth 
 and Forty-seventh streets east to Lake Avenue, and another west 
 to Western Avenue, between the same streets. A third runs east 
 to Stony Island Avenue, between Sixty-seventh and Seventy-first 
 streets. As recommended, the ordinance provides that police and 
 firemen shall be carried free; that the company shall always keep 
 the girders at least fourteen feet above the streets at whatever 
 grade there may be established. The use of streets and avenues 
 for a right of way is forbidden, and the company is required to 
 furnish four miles of double track within two years. 
 
 Cable and Horse Car Routes. 
 
 A detailed list of the street railways is here appended for 
 travelers' use and ready reference. 
 
 South Side System. — Fare, 5 cents. Transfers to or from 
 any of the main or branch lines may be had from the conductor 
 without additional charge. 
 
 Wabash Avenue and Cottage Grove Avenue Cable lines — 
 Trains bearing sign " Hyde Park" run on Wabash to Twenty- 
 secjond, to Cottage Grove, to Fifty-fifth Street, to Jefferson, to 
 Fifty-sixth, to Lake Avenue. Time, fifty-three minutes. 
 
 Trains bearing sign "71st st. and Oakwoods " run same as 
 above to Fifty- fifth Street, continuing on Cottage Grove to Sev- 
 enty-first. Time, fifty-five minutes. 
 
 Indiana Avenne cars are attached to the Wabash and Cottage 
 Grove cable trains as far south as Eighteenth Street, whence they 
 are drawn by horses east to Indiana Avenue, and south to Fifty 
 first Street. 
 
 Horse-cars run from Washington Street, south on Clark to 
 Van Buren, and east on Van Buren to Wabash Avenue, trans- 
 ferring passengers there to the Cottage Grove cable line. 
 
 State Street Cable line — Trains bearing sign "39th" run 
 south on State Street to Thirty ninth. Time, thirty minutes. 
 All other State Street cable trains run to Sixty-third Street. Time, 
 forty-six minutes. 
 
48 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 Archer Avenue cars attached to State Street cable trains are 
 dropped at Archer Avenue, and horses draw them to Thirty eighth 
 vStreet and Kedzie Avenue on Archer. Time, sixty-two minutes. 
 
 IVal/ace, Hanover, and Butler streets cars, attached to State 
 Street cable trains, are dropped at Archer Avenue, thence by 
 horses on Archer to Hanover, to Twenty-ninth Street, to Butler 
 Street, to Thirty-first Street, to Wallace, to Thirty-ninth. Time, 
 forty minutes. 
 
 From the State Street cable, passengers may be transferred to: 
 
 Twenty-second Street line. Cottage Grove Avenue to South 
 Branch Chicago River. 
 
 Twenty-sixth Street line. Cottage Grove Avenue to Halsted 
 Street. 
 
 Thirty-first Street line, Illinois Central tracks (lake shore) to 
 South Branch Chicago River. 
 
 Thirty-fifth 07id Stanton Avenue — From State Street to Stan- 
 ton Avenue, to Thirty-ninth Street. 
 
 Thi}ty-ninth Street and Stock Yards line, Cottage Grove Ave- 
 nue to Wentworth Avenue, to Root Street, to Stock Yards. 
 
 Forty-thi7-d Street line, Illinois Central tracks to State, to Root 
 Street, to Stock Yards. 
 
 Forty-seventh Street line. State to Ashland Avenue. 
 
 Fifty -first Street line. State to Grand Boulevard (Washington 
 Park). 
 
 Sixty -first Street or Woodlawn line. State to Cottage Grove 
 Avenue, to Sixty-third, to Illinois Central tracks. 
 
 Sixty-third Street line, on Sixty-first Street, State to Went- 
 worth Avenue, to Sixty-third, to Ashland Avenue. 
 
 Atiburn Park line, on Sixty-first Street, State to Wentworth 
 Avenue, to Vincennes Avenue, to Seventy-ninth, to Halsted. 
 
 Sixty-ninth Street lijie, on State, Sixty-fourth Street, to Vin- 
 cennes Avenue, to Sixty-ninth, to Leavitt Street. 
 
 IVentziJorth Avenue line, from Washington Street, on Clark, 
 to Archer Avenue, to Wentworth Avenue, to Sixty-third. 
 
 Halsted Street line — Horse-cars connect with the West Side 
 street cars at Halsted and O'Neil streets, runninj south on Hal- 
 sted to Sixty-ninth Street. 
 
 Ashland Avenue line — From Archer Avenue, on Ashland, to 
 Sixty-ninth Street. 
 
 These lines transfers passengers east or west on any of the 
 cross-town lines intersecting them. 
 
 Northwest Side System. — Fare, 5 cents — Milwaukee Ave- 
 nue Cable li7te, from Madison, on La Salle to Randolph, to Fifth 
 Avenue, to Washington, through tunnel to Desplaines, to Mil- 
 waukee Avenue, to Armitage Avenue. Forty minutes. 
 
 Milwaukee and North avenues line, via Milwaukee Avenue 
 cable to West North Avenue, to Fortieth Street. Forty-five 
 minutes. 
 
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 Noble Street line, via Milwaukee Avenue cable to Noble Street, 
 to Blackhawk, to Holt, to North Avenue, to Ashland Avenue, to 
 Llybourn Place, to Wood Street. Forty minutes. 
 
 Division Street line, via Milwaukee Avenue cable to West 
 Division Street, to California Avenue. Forty minutes. 
 
 Chicago Avenue line, via Milwaukee Avenue cable to Chicago 
 Avenue, to California Avenue, to Division Street. Time, fifty 
 minutes. 
 
 Indiana Street line — From State, on Randolph, to Halsted, to 
 Indiana, to Western Avenue. Forty minutes. 
 
 West Side System. — Fare, 5 cents. lake Street line — From 
 State, on Lake Street, to West Fortieth Street. Fifty minutes. 
 
 Randolph Street line — From State, on Randolph and West Lake 
 to Western Avenue. Thirty-five minutes. 
 
 Madison Street Cable line — From La Salle and Madison, 
 through Washington Street tunnel, and on West Madison to Wesf 
 Fortieth Street. Thirty-five minutes. 
 
 Ogden Avenue line — From La Salle and Madison, via Madison 
 Street cable to Ogden Avenue, thence on Ogden Avenue to Mil- 
 lard Avenue. Fifty-five minutes. 
 
 Harrison^ and Adams Street line — From Michigan Avenue, on 
 Adams, to Desplaines, to Harrison, to Western Avenue. Forty 
 minutes. 
 
 Center Avenue and Adams Street line — From Michigan Avenue, 
 on Adams, to Center Avenue, to Twenty-first Street, to Western 
 Avenue. Fifty minutes. 
 
 Van Buren Street line — From State, on Madison, to Fifth 
 Avenue, to Van Buren, to Western Avenue. Forty minutes. 
 
 Also from State, on Van Buren, to Kedzie Avenue. Forty 
 minutes. 
 
 Blue Island Avenue line — From Washington, on State, to Madi- 
 son, to Clinton, to Adams, to Halsted, to Blue Island Avenue, to 
 Western Avenue. Fifty minutes. 
 
 South Halsted Street line — From State, on Randolph, to Hal- 
 sted, to O'Neil Street, connecting with Halsted Street cars of the 
 South Side system. Forty minutes. 
 
 Cliiiton and Jefferson Street line — From State, on Randolph, to 
 Clinton, to Twelfth, to Jefferson, to Meagher Street. Thirty-five 
 minutes. 
 
 Taylor Street line — From Washington, on Michigan Avenue, 
 to Adams, to Fifth Avenue, to Harrison, to Canal, to Taylor, to 
 Western Avenue. Forty minutes. 
 
 Twelfth Street line — From Randolph, on State, to Madison, 
 to Fifth Avenue, to Twelfth Street, to Douglas and Central Park 
 Boulevard. Forty-five minutes. 
 
 Also from State, on Van Buren, to Jefferson, to Twelfth, to 
 Douglas and Central Park Boulevard. Fifty minutes. 
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50 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 Eighteenth Street line — From State, on Randolph, to Halsted, 
 to Eighteenth, to Leavitt, to Blue Island Avenue. Sixty minutes. 
 
 Canalport Avenue line — From State, on Washington, to Clin- 
 ton, to Harrison, to Canal, to Canalport Avenue, to Halsted, 
 to O'Neil. Forty minutes. 
 
 Ashland Avenue and Sangamon Street line — From Michigan 
 Avenue, on Adams, to Sangamon, to Austin Avenue, to Centre 
 Avenue, to Erie, to Ashland Avenue, to Clybourn Place. Fifty- 
 five minutes. 
 
 North Side System. — Fare, 5 cents. — City Limits Cable line 
 — From Monroe, on Dearborn, to Randolph, to La Salle, 
 through tunnel to Illinois, to Clark, to Diversey Avenue. Thirty 
 minutes. 
 
 Also from Monroe, on Dearborn, to Randolph, to La Salle, 
 through tunnel to Illinois, to Wells, to Clark (at Wisconsin Street), 
 to Diversey Avenue. Thirty minutes. 
 
 Lincoln Avenue Cable line — Two routes same as above, to 
 Clark and Center streets; from Clark, on Center, to Lincoln Ave- 
 nue, to Wrightwood Avenue, connecting here with several minor 
 horse-car lines. Thirty-five minutes. 
 
 Clark Street, Fullerton and Webster Avenues line — Via Lincoln 
 Avenue cable to Lincoln and Fullerton avenues, on Fullerton Ave- 
 nue, to Racine Avenue, to Webster Avenue. Forty minutes. 
 
 Gar/icld Avenue and Center Street line — Via Lincoln Avenue 
 cable to Lincoln and Garfield avenues, on Garfield Avenue, to Ra- 
 cine Avenue. Forty minutes. 
 
 Clybourn Avenue line — Via Wells Street cable to Division 
 Street, on Division, to Clybourn Avenue, to Fullerton Avenue. 
 Forty-five minutes. 
 
 Sedgwick Street line — From Washington, on Clark, to Kinzie, 
 to Market, to Division, to Sedgwick, to Center Street. Thirty 
 minutes. 
 
 Larrabce Street line — From Washington, on Clark, to Kinzie, 
 to Market, to Chicago Avenue, to Larrabee, to Lincoln Avenue. 
 Thirty-five minutes. 
 
 Halsted Street line — Via Clybourn Avenue cable to Halsted, to 
 Evanston Avenue. Time, fifty minutes. 
 
 Division Street line — Via Clybourn Avenue cable to Division, 
 to Milwaukee Avenue. Thirty-five minutes. 
 
 State and Division Streets line — From Lake, on State, to Divis- 
 ion, to Clark. Fifteen minutes. 
 
 The Calumet Electric Road consists of two lines — one 
 extending from the southern terminus of the South Side cable 
 road, at Cottage Grove Avenue and Seventy-first Street, south to 
 Ninety third Street, and east on Ninety third Street to South 
 Chicago; the other from Cottage Grove Avenue, west on Ninety- 
 
GETTING ABOUT THE CITY. 51 
 
 fifth Street, to Michigan Avenue, south on Michigan Avenue, to 
 119th Street, and passes through Roseland, Kensington, Burn- 
 side, Dauphin Park, and Grand Crossing. Fare, 5 cents. 
 
 The Cicero & Proviso Electric Road extends from the 
 western terminus of the West Madison Street cable system to Har- 
 lem Avenue, Concordia, Waldheim, and Maywood. Fare, 5 
 cents. 
 
 Chicago possesses one of the most complete systems of street 
 railways in the world, being literally gridironed with their tracks. 
 The three divisions of the city are operated by separate compa- 
 nies, with an aggregate of 396 miles of track. The cars are used 
 by about 600,000 persons a day. The fare is uniformly 5 cents. 
 
 The North Chicago City Railway Company has 80 miles of 
 track (of which 12 miles are operated by cable) and owns 354 cars, 
 and 1,823 horses, and several cable engines, aggregating 2,700 
 horse-power. 
 
 The company operating the West Division has 144 miles of 
 track. Its equipment is 1,289 cars and 4,178 horses. Its official 
 title is the West Chicago Street Railroad Company, operating the 
 Chicago West Division Railway and the Chicago Passenger Rail- 
 way. 
 
 The South Side is operated by the Chicago City Railway Com- 
 pany, which has, to a large extent, dispensed with the use of horses 
 by the adoption of the cable system. The first section was opened 
 in 1882, since which time it has been extended to 148 miles, of 
 which' 35 miles are cable. Its equipment includes 1,472 cars, 
 ^,500 horses, 3 steam motors of 30 horse-power each, and cable 
 engines aggregating 10,000 horse-power. The principal cable 
 station is situated at Twentieth and State streets. 
 
 Strangers will do well to remember that throughout the city the 
 street cars will stop only at the farther side of street crossings, 
 except in the middle of long blocks, where stopping places are indi- 
 cated by signs. 
 
 Omnibuses meet all the important trains at the terminal depots, 
 to transfer passengers from one depot to another, or to convey them 
 to the hotels. Fare, 50 cents. 
 
 Carriages may be ordered at any of the principal hotels. 
 
52 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 Posioffice and Postal FacilHies. 
 
 The General Postoffice is to be found in the heart of the 
 business center, occupying, with the Custom House, Federal 
 Courts, and U. S. Department offices, the entire block bounded 
 by Adams, Clark, Jackson, and Dearborn streets. The " general 
 delivery " {paste restante) and stamp-selling windows are on the 
 ground floor at the Clark Street side of the building, the money 
 order branch on th^ Dearborn Street side of the same floor, the 
 entire basement and first floor being occupied by the postal author- 
 ities. Stamps can be bought all night as well as during the day, 
 except that on Sunday the office is open only from 11.30 A. M. to 
 12.30 P. M. The money order department is open from 9 to 5, the 
 registered letter and other offices are open from 9 to 6, week-days. 
 
 The site of the present Postoffice Building cost $1,100,000, and 
 the erection of the present structure (costing $4,000,000) was com- 
 menced directly after the great fire of 1871. Its dimensions are 
 243x211 feet, and utmost height 197 feet. In architectural par- 
 lance it is described as of the Florentine-Romanesque style, and 
 is built of Buena Vista sandstone from Ohio. 
 
 As a building it is a complete failure; far too small for the 
 present requirements of the postal service alone, its foundations 
 sinking, and the whole building rapidly falling into decay, it is an 
 eloquent example of the pious editor's creed pervading the ranks 
 of building contractors, how 
 
 " Uncle Sam they reverence, 
 Particularly his pockets." 
 
 It is now proposed to sell the site, which is of very great value, 
 and with the proceeds to erect a modern and far more extensive 
 Postoffice and Federal Building upon the Lake Front, or some 
 other suitable location. An alternative plan is to erect a new 
 building upon the present site. The amount of business trans- 
 acted is immense, employing 842 clerks, 769 carriers, 57 horses, 
 and 52 wagons, and with 300 clerks employed in the railway post- 
 offices which arrive at or leave Chicago. The city delivery of 
 mail matter in the year 1891 reached a total of 254,423,884 pieces. 
 There are 1 1 carrier stations, 22 sub-postal stations; no mails arrive 
 each twenty-four hours, and an equal number are dispatched. 
 One particularly valuable postal plan xs peculiar to Chicago: Each 
 nigbt 33 clerks leave Chicago to await and board incoming mail 
 trains at distant points for the purpose of sorting the letters for 
 Chicago. As a result, 70 per cent, of the mail matter arriving in 
 the twenty- four hours is delivered before 9 A. M., each day. Under 
 the able direction of Col. Jas. A. Sexton, the courteous and excep- 
 
54 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 tionally efficient postmaster, the World's Fair postal arrangements 
 will be well cared for and as skillfully handled. 
 
 Postoffice Stational Offices. — 355 and 359 North Clark 
 Street; 517 Milwaukee Avenue; corner West Washington Street 
 and South Halsted Street; 981 West Madison Street; 543 Blue 
 Island Avenue; 3217 State Street; 3729 Cottage Grove Avenue; 
 Union Stock Yards; 1353 Diversey Avenue; 1576 Milwaukee 
 Avenue; 142 Fifty-third Street. 
 
 There are, in addition, 20 sub-stations for money orders, 
 stamps, and registration scattered throughout the city. 
 
 Telegraphs, Telephones, and the Messenger Service. 
 
 Telegraphs. — The principal telegraph and cable companies 
 have branch offices in Chicago, and, frequently, instruments in the 
 principal hotels. Following is a list of the head offices: 
 
 American District Telegraph Co., 203 Washington Street. 
 
 Chicago iSr' Milwaukee Telegraph Co.., 56 Board of Trade 
 Building. 
 
 Gamewell Fire Alarm Telegraph Co., 902, 59 Clark Street. 
 
 Gold df Stock Telegraph Co., 9 Rialto Building. 
 
 Mercantile Telegraph Co., 267 Clark Street. 
 
 Postal Telegraph Cable Co., Phenix Building, southwest cor- 
 ner Clark and Jackson streets. 
 
 Western Union Telegraph Co., La Salle Street, southwest 
 corner Washington Street. 
 
 The American District Telegraph, operated by the Chi- 
 cago Telephone Company, has offices scattered all over town, and 
 also in the different suburbs of the city, where uniformed messen- 
 ger boys are on hand to answer calls, and perform every variety 
 of service for which a boy is capable, from simply carrying a 
 message or delivering a package to cashing a check, escorting 
 ladies to the theater or to a railway station, or distributing advertise- 
 ments. This company places small automatic call-instruments in 
 clubs, hotels, offices, and private houses, by which a messenger, 
 or one of the company's firemen (armed with chemical apparatus), 
 or a policeman with full authority may be summoned, by simply 
 turning a pointer on the dial. The charge is regulated by a tariff, 
 which is printed in a book supplied to subscribers and carried by 
 the boys; and it is well to learn in advance what will be the charge 
 for the service you wish done. These boys are faithful in their 
 
GETTING ABOUT THE CITY. 55 
 
 work, and as prompt as could be expected, and, notwithstanding 
 the popular gibes at them, are obliging and industrious. 
 
 Telephones are as numerous in Chicago as elsewhere, one 
 company alone having 8,500 telephones (generally abbreviated 
 into " phones") and 1,800 miles of wire. At frequent intervals, 
 in telegraph and messenger offices, hotels, drug stores, etc., pub- 
 lic "pay" stations are indicated by a sign, where the use of a 
 telephone can be had for a small fee, and some of these are 
 ** long distance " stations, whose wires reach suburban places. 
 
 Telephone Companies; 
 
 Central Union Telephoite Co., 40, 203 Washington Street. 
 
 Chicago Telephone Co., 203 Washington Street. 
 
 The American Telephone df Telegraph Co., Rand-McNally 
 Building, 105-107 Quincy Street. 
 
 Chicago Telephone Company. — Ameri- 
 can District Telegraph messengers, who are 
 thoroughly familiar with the city, may be sum- 
 moned at any hour of the day or night by turn- 
 ing in messenger-box signal or by telephone, 
 or personal application to any of the Company's 
 offices. 
 
 Uniforjued Messengers will be promptly dis- 
 patched, upon call, prepared to act as escort, especially for ladies 
 or children, or to deliver letters, invitations, light packages, etc. ; 
 to go for a physician, medicine, carriage, express, or to perform 
 any other errand. 
 
 Uniformed Guides, familiar with the city, its suburbs, and 
 World's Columbian Exposition grounds, may be secured by tele- 
 phone or personal application to the Company's offices. 
 
 American Dishict Telegraph offices, fully equipped with the 
 latest and most improved telephonic facilities, will be found in all 
 the principal Exposition buildings, from which communication 
 may be had with points throughout the Exposition, tht city of Chi- 
 cago, and elsewhere, including direct connection with other cities 
 and towns over the Long Distance Lines of the American Tele- 
 phone & Telegraph Co. 
 
 Messenger and telephone service may be secured at the follow- 
 ing American District Telegraph offices in the city of Chicago; 
 5 
 
56 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 Telephone No. 
 
 No. ii8 La Salle Street ... .Main-119 
 
 No. 190 West Madison Street Main-138 
 
 No. 54 Randolph Street , Main-2384 
 
 No. 515 Wabash Avenue Main-i 1 1 
 
 No. 34 Monroe Street Main-2340 
 
 Sherman House Main-iygs 
 
 Board of Trade, exchange floor Main-702 
 
 Grand Pacific >Iotel Main-i 174 
 
 Auditorium Hotel Main-1480 
 
 Rookery Building. ... Main-4087 
 
 No. 243i North Clark Street North-52 
 
 No. 3901 Cottage Grove Avenue Oakland-890 
 
 No. 94 East Twenty-second Street South-105 
 
 Exchange Bldg. Union Stock Yards Yards-504 
 
 No. 584 West Madison Street West-145 
 
 No. 199 Canalport Avenue Canal office 
 
 No. 6134 Wentworth Avenue Englewood Exchange 
 
 No. 9145 Commercial Avenue South Chicago Exchange 
 
IV. 
 
 THEATERS, THE OPERA, AND 
 OTHER AMUSEMENTS. 
 
 Probably the first thing to which the average visitor to Chicago 
 turns his attention, after settling down at his hotel, feasting his 
 eyes at the World's Fair grounds, and generally getting his ' ' bear- 
 ings," is amusement; though with the gentler sex shopping may 
 hold an equal place. 
 
 The amusements of the World's Fair City are many-sided and 
 multitudinous, ranging from Italian Opera at the Auditorium to 
 dime museum and dance hall; from Kinsley or Richelieu banquets 
 to South State Street bean feasts; from Michigan Avenue prome- 
 nades to pleasure club picnics; from a stroll in Lincoln Park to a 
 midnight ramble in the local " Hell's Kitchen", so that the men or 
 women who can not amuse themselves in Chicago must be con- 
 firmed misanthropes, finding no joy in life anywhere. 
 
 The amusements fall into certain classes, briefly summarized 
 below: 
 
 Theaters and the Opera. 
 
 Theaters, Etc. — There are thirty-two first-class theaters and 
 places of amusement in Chicago, with an estimated gross attend- 
 ance daily of from 20,000 to 25,00c persons, so that the public 
 enjoy a continual round of high-class entertainment. The Audi- 
 torium, Columbia, Hooley's, McVicker's, Schiller, Alhambra, 
 Havlin's, and the Haymarket theaters, and the Grand and Chicago 
 Opera Houses, stand in the front rank, while the Academy of 
 Music and Standard are rapidly advancing to an equally high po- 
 sition. Concerts and lectures are given in the Central Music Hall, 
 
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58 
 
 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO, 
 
 a large and handsome building on the corner of State and Ran- 
 dolph streets, the Madison Street Theater, 83 Madison Street, and 
 elsewhere; and on the North Side, the Windsor and Jacobs' Clark 
 Street Theater are popular houses. Following is a brief list: 
 
 Columbia Theater, Monroe Street, west of Dearborn. 
 
 Auditoriu?n, Wabash Avenue and Congress Street. 
 Academy of Mtisic, Halsted Street, near Madison Street. 
 Alhajnbra Theater, State Street and Archer Avenue. 
 Central Music Hall, State Street, cor. Randolph Street. 
 Chicago Opera House, Washington Street, S. W. cor. Clark 
 Street. 
 
 Columbia Theater, 108 and no Monroe Street. 
 
 Criterion Theater, 274 Sedgwick Street. 
 
 Grand Opera House, 87 Clark Street. 
 
 Halsted Street Opei-a House, Halsted and W. Harrison streets. 
 
 Havlin^s Theater, Wabash Avenue and Nineteenth Street. 
 
 Haymarket Theater, W. Madison Street, east of Halsted Street. 
 
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 THE HARDY SUBTERRANEAN THEATER.— See page 63, 
 
 THE GROTTO. 
 
6o HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 Hooky's Theater, 149 Randolph Street. 
 
 'Jacobs' Clark Street Theater, Kinzie and N. Clark streets. 
 
 Lyceum Theater, 54 Desplaines Street. 
 
 Madison Street Theater^ 83 Madison Street. 
 
 McVickers Ilieater, 82 Madison ^Street. 
 
 Olympic Theater, 46 Clark Street. 
 
 People's Theater, State Street, near Harrison Street. 
 
 Standard Theater, Halsted Street, cor. W. Jackson, 
 
 Schiller Theater, 103 Randolph Street. 
 
 Windsor Theater, 468 N. Clark Street. 
 
 General Remarks. — Prices. — The prices usual at the Chicago 
 theaters are about $1.50 for the orchestra or best balcony seats, 
 50 cents admission without seat reserved, and 25 cents for the 
 upper circles. At some of the " popular" houses the prices. vary, 
 running down as low as 10 cents admission, and 50 cents for 
 reserved orchestra chairs. 
 
 Theater Tickets are to be obtained in most of the principal 
 
 hotels as well as at the box offices. 
 
 The Chicago Auditorium. — This magnificent structure 
 occupies nearly an entire square, having frontages of 187 feet on 
 Michigan Avenue, 361 feet on Congress Street, and 161 feet on 
 Wabash Avenue. It is a colossal structure of granite and brick, 
 comprising ten stories. The height of the main building is 144 
 feet; of the large square tower on the Congress Street front, 225 
 feet, the lateral dimensions of this tower being 40X 71 feet. The 
 Auditorium, which was designed to accommodate conventions and 
 similar gatherings,, contains 5,000 seats, and has a total capacity 
 for 8,000. It is fire-proof, has a stone frontage of 709 feet, and 
 cost about $2,000,000. 
 
 Vaudeville Entertainments of any especial merit in Chicago 
 are, like "black swans," rare, the Eden Musee, with Haverly's 
 Minstrels (excellent in its way), being about the sole representa- 
 tive of performances suited for ladies or children. To those of 
 cosmopolitan taste, who desire beer and tobacco, and do not draw 
 the line at abbreviated dress, Engel's Opera Pavilion, 469 North 
 Clark Street, Barlow's Pavilion, State Street and Archer Avenue, 
 and such like places, will appeal. As to the rest, " dive" is th'e 
 only correct definition of dozens, and Chicago's "dives" will be 
 well avoided by any strangers. 
 
THEATERS AND OTHER AMUSEMENTS. 6i 
 Musical Entertainments. 
 
 Several musical societies in Chicago, among others the Apollo 
 Club, have annual, or more frequent, concerts, which are noticea- 
 ble events. The columns of the daily newspapers, as a rule, will 
 give ample notification of those open to the public. A series 
 of summer concerts in the First Regimental Armory (Michigan 
 Avenue and Sixteenth Street) have been very popular, and will 
 probably be repeated. 
 
 Lectures and Instructive Exhibitions. 
 
 Lectures on various topical or national questions are fre- 
 quently given during the winter months in the Auditorium or other 
 halls. Full notification is always to be found in the columns of 
 the local press. 
 
 Libby Prison, Wabash Avenue, between Fourteenth and Sixteenth Streets, 
 
 Museums, Etc. 
 
 Libby Prison Museum, Wabash Avenue and Fifteenth 
 Street — the palace prison of the South — built in 1845, of 
 imported brick, and used as a tobacco warehouse; taken by the 
 Confederates for a prison in 1861, and during the war more than 
 12,000 Union soldiers were confined in it, is well worth a visit. 
 Purchased by Chicago capitalists in 18 89 and removed to this city. 
 
62 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 and opened as a National War Museum, filled with many thou- 
 sands of important and valuable relics of the late civil war. 
 Sir Antonio Moro's portrait of Columbus, now on exhibition at 
 this museum, will be one of the features of the art exhibit of the 
 World's Columbian Exposition. Admission, 50 cents. 
 
 John Brown's Fort, 1341 Wabash Avenue. 
 
 John Brown's Fort, was formerly part of the arsenal and 
 gun factory at Harper's Perry, Va, The engine house at Har- 
 per's Ferry was seized in 1859 by Brown, and attacked by the 
 United States marines and Virginia State troops. It was removed 
 bodily to Chicago, reconstructed with marvelous fidelity, and with 
 perfect detail it is now enclosed in an elegant building of attractive 
 design, situated at 1341 Wabash Avenue. Admission 50 cents. 
 
 The Battle of Gettysburg Panorama is situated at the 
 corner of Hubbard Court and Wabash Avenue, and presents a 
 realistic picture of this terrible conflict of the Civil War. Oppo- 
 site it is the Panorama of Niagara Falls 
 
 The Chicago Fire Panorama is located on Michigan Avenue 
 near Madison Street, and presents a vividly realistic represen'^ation 
 of the conflagration at its height. Figures best convey an idea of 
 this holocaust. We find that 125 acres of ground were swept by 
 the flames, 1,000 buildings destroyed, 6,000 people rendered 
 homeless, and $12,000,000 worth of property destroyed in each 
 hour that the fire raged. One million dollars went up in smoke 
 every five minutes. The canvas of the panorama approximates 
 20,000 square feet in area. 
 
THEATERS AND OTHER AMUSEMENTS. 63 
 
 The Hardy Subterranean Theater is located on Wabash 
 Avenue, south of Sixteenth Street. Here sight-seers are given 
 an opportunity to see the marvels hidden underground, by means 
 of an elevator which apparently descends to great depths 
 
 Though the elevator car (a miniature theatrical hall in itself, 
 accommodating comfortably one hundred people) only moves up 
 and down in a shaft about fifteen to twenty feet deep, the illusion is 
 made perfect by a combination of mechanical devices, and the effect 
 produced is a real descent about 1,000 to 1,200 feet under the 
 surface of the earth. 
 
 The elevator car moves into the center of a circular platform, 
 carrying different stages arranged with appropriate scenery and 
 living actors. The platform turns on rails, and is made to revolve 
 and bring successively each scene in sight of the elevator car at the 
 different stops made by the car in its descent. 
 
 Entrance to the subterranean scenery is obtained through a 
 hall, decorated to resemble a chamber of stalactites, having a stage 
 at one end, where variety performances are given every afternoon 
 and evening. Admission to the Hardy Theater, 50 cents. 
 
 Dime Museums. — To those desirous of such delights. Kohl & 
 Middleton's, at 146 Clark Street, their South State Street Museum, 
 and Epstean's New Dime Museum on Randolph Street, near Clark, 
 will be found interesting and attractive. 
 
 The Circus. — Repeated visits to Chicago are paid by those 
 delights of the small boy, the various circuses. 
 
 Balls and Dancing. — The magnificent hall of the Auditorium 
 and other suitable places are frequently filled in the winter season 
 with the youth, beauty, and wealth of Chicago worshiping at the 
 Terpsichorean shrine, the Annual Charity Ball being a galaxy of 
 beauty, manliness, and wealth. 
 
 Beer Gardens and Bar-rooms. — With a population of at 
 least 390,000 Germans resident in Chicago, many are the excellent, 
 staid, and simple resorts where Cousin Hans delighteth to disport. 
 Many of the bar-rooms in Chicago are widely famous among men 
 about town. Kinsley's, the Auditorium, Hannah & Hogg's, the 
 Great Northern, the Richelieu, and the Wellington are well 
 worth inspection. 
 
V. 
 RACING AND ATHLETIC SPORTS. 
 
 General interest in out-door sports has increased, and many 
 associations devoted to them have been organized. The most 
 important of these are those of 
 
 Turf and Turfmen. 
 
 Horse-racing in the city of Chicago is regulated by law or 
 local ordinance. There are three principal tracks, all convenient 
 to the city. 
 
 Washington Park Club, situated at South Park Avenue and 
 Sixty- first Street, is the most aristocratic club, and has one of the 
 most modern and excellently arranged tracks in the country. • It 
 is reached by the Illinois Central Railroad or by the State Street 
 and Cottage Grove cable car lines. The Washington Park Derby 
 Day in June or July, opening the summer season, is a great Chi- 
 cago event. Then the Michigan Avenue Boulevard is a blaze of 
 color from the toilettes in the long procession of carriages, while 
 the track is picturesque to a degree with the presence of car- 
 riages of every species and visitors of every kind. This event is 
 rapidly becoming a local annual holiday. 
 
 Garfield Park Club, situated a few hundred yards west of 
 Garfield Park, and reached by the Madison Street cable cars and 
 the Wisconsin Central Railroad, is a regular racing association, 
 duly incorporated as a stock company under the laws of the State 
 of Illinois. It possesses one of the finest tracks in the country, 
 and here, in 1877, Maud S., the celebrated horse, made her record. 
 
 The Hawthorne Track is situated in the town of Cicero, just 
 beyond the city limits, and 7^ miles ' from the court house. It is 
 
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 65 
 
 reached by the Freeport branch of the Illinois Central Railroad, 
 the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, and the Atchison, Topeka & 
 Santa Fe. 
 
 The Indiana Racing Association, at io8th Street and 
 Indiana Boulevard, is reached by the Pennsylvania R. R., from 
 the Union Depot. Races are run regularly and without cessation. 
 
 Turfmen's Resorts. — The leading turfmen of Chicago when 
 in town make the Wellington Hotel bar, Chapin & Gore's, 73 
 and 75 Monroe Street, and Harry Varnell's, 119 Clark Street, their 
 down-town headquarters, and may there be found by those inter- 
 ested in " the sport of kings." 
 
 Washington Park Club House. 
 
 Yachting, Boating, and Fishing. 
 
 Yacht Clubs are numerous along the Lake Front, the Chi- 
 cago Yacht Club and Lincoln Park Yacht Club being the two 
 principal. Sailing yachts can be hired on suitable days on the 
 Lake Front, at the foot of Congress Street, while the services of a 
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 steamboat for any extended excursion can speedily be procured by 
 application to the various transportation companies, or advertise- 
 ment in the local papers. The charge for sailing yachts is about 
 $io to $20 for a whole day for a party, while 25 cents each 
 person per hour's sail is the usual rate for lesser periods; but it is 
 best ' ' to agree with thine adversary (the boatman) quickly, whiles 
 thou art (on the shore) with him," and for obvious reasons. 
 
 Rowing and Canoeing. — Lake Michigan, the harbor, and 
 the many lakes and ornamental waters in the parks are excellent 
 localities for the pastimes of those fond of aquatic sports. Visitors 
 will do well tc keep within the harbor in small rowing boats, as 
 Lake Michigan squalls are proverbially severe. 
 
 Fishing in the Lake. — Numerous enthusiastic disciples of 
 Izaak Walton find the contemplative man's recreation in angling 
 for lake perch from the various piers in the lake; but the majority 
 of anglers will go farther afield to the lesser lake district of Michi- 
 gan or Wisconsin, where the game fishes abound. Still, on the 
 Government Pier (fare, 25 cents round trip, from Van Buren Street 
 and the Lake Front) a good day's sport may often be obtained, as 
 the fish run large and struggle gamely. 
 
 Athletics. 
 
 Athletic sports of every kind find numerous enthusiastic vota- 
 ries among the thousands of Chicago youths. Gymnasia, such 
 as those of the Y. M. C. A. and Athenaeum, are replete with 
 every imaginable apparatus for muscular exercise. 
 
 Field Sports. 
 
 BasebalL — There are some 400 organized baseball clubs in 
 Chicago, and consequently little lack for amusement for specta- 
 tors of the national game. In the season the principal games 
 of the National Baseball League are played on the Chicago Base- 
 ball Club's grounds at the corner of Thirty-fifth Street and Went- 
 worth Avenue. 
 
 Cricket. — The Chicago Cricket Club at Parkside, 167th 
 Street (Illinois Central Railroad), and the Pullman Cricket Club 
 are the leading exponents of the British national game, contain- 
 
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 ing as these clubs do many young men of European birth or 
 parentage. 
 
 Bicycling and Tricycling. — Chicago possesses numerous 
 bicycle clubs, the parks and boulevards affording such excellent 
 roadways for the use of the speedy wheel. The annual road race 
 to Pullman on Decoration Day and the Chinese Lantern Parade 
 of clubs make interesting features of the sport. Recently the 
 cyclists of Chicago demonstrated their pluck and stamina by car- 
 rying a military dispatch to New York, by relays of men, in a time 
 (considering the continuous rain and other adverse conditions) 
 which clearly proved the utility of the bicycle for military purposes. 
 
 The principal bicycle clubs are: 
 
 Chicago Cycling Club, corner of Lake Avenue and Fifty-seventh 
 Street. 
 
 Cook County Wheelmen, 218 Leavitt Street. 
 
 Douglas Cycling Club, 586 West Taylor Street. 
 
 Illinois Cycling Club, 1068 Washington Boulevard. 
 
 Lake View Cycling Club, Lake View. 
 
 Lincoln Cycling Club, 235 La Salle Avenue. 
 
 Oak Park Cycling Club, Oak Park. 
 
 Washington Cycling Club, 650 West Adams Street. 
 
 Winter Sports. — To many the winter winds bring the keen- 
 est enjoyment in Chicago, the splendid park and boulevard system 
 being the acme of excellence for sleighing, the extensive orna- 
 mental waters in the various parks affording the finest skating, 
 and even Lake Michigan, on occasions of severe frost, bearing the 
 adventurous skater or the speedy iceboat. Visitors soon learn of 
 any available ice, the various car lines being provided with adver- 
 tisement boards which are exhibited as soon as the ice bears. It 
 is sometimes found practicable to flood some baseball grounds and 
 thus afford earlier skating for the enthusiast, who, with the small 
 boy, thinks two-inch ice stout enough for any purpose. The 
 Gaelic Athletic Association grounds, 37th S rect and Indiana 
 Avenue, reached by Indiana Avenue cars, has a good wint r rink 
 in operation. 
 
VI. 
 
 SUGGESTIONS AS TO SHOPPING. 
 
 The shopping district of Chicago, par excellence, is the quad- 
 rangle formed by Wabash Avenue, Washington Street, Dearborn 
 and Congress streets, the " ladies' half mile " being essentially on 
 State Street from Randolph to Congress streets. In this quad- 
 rangle are the finest of the stores and shops, and on the favored 
 promenade are wares displayed in windows which would vie in 
 array with those of any city on the face of the globe. The wealth 
 of material temptingly displayed is varied and very great, from the 
 sealskins of arctic Alaska to the sweet products of Southern Cali- 
 fornia, from the quaint goods of China and Japan to the choice 
 silks and laces of Italy, Spain, and France. All come to Chicago 
 and contribute to the beauteous display made by the merchant 
 prince of that city of many merchant princes. 
 
 The great feature of shopping in Chicago is the prevalence of 
 huge bazaars, where every sort of thing is sold that a woman would 
 want to buy for herself, for her family, or for her house. Mar- 
 shall Field & Co., State and Washington streets; Carson, Pirie, 
 Scott & Co.; J. H. Walker & Co., Wabash Avenue and Adams 
 Street; Mandel Brothers, 117-123 State Street, and other merchants 
 keep the widest possible variety of dry goods and fancy articles; but 
 Siegel, Cooper & Co., State and Van Buren streets; The Fair, State 
 and Adams streets; The Leader, State and Adams streets, and 
 others are immense bazaars rather than a single establishment — a 
 federation of separate special salesrooms under the same roof and 
 subjected to common regulations for mutual benefit rather than one 
 store divided into departments; as at Wanamaker's, in Philadelphia, 
 for example. Here the visitor will find telegraph and telephone 
 
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SUGGESTIONS AS TO SHOPPING. 69 
 
 offices, a place to leave parcels on payment of 10 cents, retiring 
 rooms, an immense luncheon room with moderate prices, and a 
 detective system which guards the customer from pickpockets, 
 while it protects the firm from thieving. 
 
 Continuous lines of stores extend along State Street from Con- 
 gress to Randolph streets, and between them is probably the busi- 
 est shopping district in the city. The crossing of State and Madi- 
 son streets may be termed the vortex of retail trade. Here, the 
 crowd and clanging bells of cable cars would, especially of a Sat- 
 urday afternoon, more than bewilder the average countryman. 
 This vortex is practically the center of the .retail dry-goods trade 
 and is usually crowded by the fair sex seeking at extraordinary 
 trouble and some cost that dearest delight of the female shopper, 
 "a bargain." 
 
 Special Trade Districts. — Visitors desiring to inspect or 
 purchase any special line of articles, and wishing to have an oppor- 
 tunity for wide selection, should consult the closing pages of the 
 Business Directory, where the addresses and specialties of dealers 
 are given under their appropriate heads. A few hints as to where 
 to look for the commoner divisions of trade may be serviceable to 
 the reader. 
 
 Art works and pictures — to begin at the head of the alphabet 
 — are mainly to be seen on Wabash Avenue, below Van Buren 
 Street. Abbott's, 50 Madison Street, and O'Brien's, 208 Wabash 
 Avenue, are representative houses. Painters' materials may be 
 bought on State Street at several stores in the retail center, and at 
 Abbott's. 
 
 Books are in the same district, and may be found at Bren- 
 tano's, 204 Wabash Avenue; A.C. McClurg & Co., Wabash Avenue 
 and Madison Street; Chas. McDonald, 55 Washington Street; 
 C. W. Curry, iSi Madison Street, and many other stores. 
 
 Canary birds and pet animals are numerous at K jempfer's, 169 
 Madison Street. For carpets go to Marshall Field & Co. , Mandel's, 
 and A. H. Revell & Co., Adams Street and Wabash Avenue, and to 
 the great dry-goods and furniture stores. For china, glass, and 
 similar ware, Burley & Co., 77 State Street, and Pitkin & Brooks, 
 58 Lake Street, and the generally various department stores. 
 Clothing stores and tailors are scattered everywhere, Chinese 
 
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 wares can be found on Clark Street, and Japanese, at Hayes & 
 Tracey, 220 Wabash Avenue. Dressmakers are scattered over 
 the town, the leading department stores having dressmaking de- 
 partments, and the exclusive and correspondingly high-priced 
 modistes being, as a rule, located on Michigan Avenue, between 
 Congress and Sixteenth streets. Redfern, the well-known En- 
 glish ladies' tailor, is located at 1702 Michigan Avenue. The 
 wholesale dry-goods district is practically represented by Fifth 
 Avenue and Market Street. 
 
 Drug stores are everywhere, and are always conspicuous. 
 The wholesale drug district is largely on Lake Street. The 
 wholesale tobacco, oil, and metal trades are to be found mainly 
 on Wabash Avenue and Lake Street, while the wholesale grocers 
 congregate on River, Water, and Lake streets. Fishing-tackle 
 and sportsmen's outfits may be obtained at A. G. Spaulding & 
 Bros., 108 Madison Street; Von Lengerke & Antoine, 246 Wa- 
 bash Avenue, and several other stores along State Street and 
 Wabash Avenue. Y or Jire-ar ins go to Henry Sears Company, 
 no Wabash Avenue, or Thorsen & Cassady, 60 Wabash Avenue. 
 For jewelry, silverware, watches, and all such goods, visit such 
 establishments as J. B. Chambers & Co., Madison and Clark 
 streets; Giles Bros., Masonic Temple; Peacock's, Randolph and 
 State streets, and Spaulding's, corner Jackson and State streets. 
 Implencents for la^vn tennis, base-ball, and all out-door games 
 and sports can be had at stores dealing in sportsmen's goods, 
 while lumber is stacked in mountain piles in the lumber districts of 
 the city. Leather at wholesale is to be found principally on Kin- 
 zie Street. For miilinery of the highest kind go to the retail 
 shopping center; such stores as Marshall Field & Co., Mandel 
 Bros., Louise et Cie, 48 Monroe Street, will supply every feminine 
 fancy. Musical instruments are purchased at Lyon & Healy's, 
 corner State and Monroe streets, and other music stores, chiefly 
 congregated on Wabash Avenue. For notions and fancy goods, 
 search State Street from Randolph to Van Buren, with the cross 
 streets, and you will not search in vain. Optical instruments are 
 to be found in endless variety at L. Manasse, 88 Madison Street 
 and the Mackintosh Battery & Optical Co., 143 Wabash Avenue. 
 
 Paper and stationery are to be found in great variety at A. C. 
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72 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 McClurg & Co.'s, corner Wabash Avenue and Madison Street", 
 Brentano's, 204 Wabash Avenue; Dunwell & Ford's, 155 Wabash 
 Avenue, and the various department stores. Maps and guides 
 can be bought at Rand, McNalIy& Co.'s, 166 to 174 Adams Street. 
 Pawnbrokers and junk shops abound on Clark and State streets, 
 but they are scattered all over the poorer parts of the city. Pot- 
 tery tvares of all kinds, and especially imported ceramic goods, 
 are to be found at retail in the principal department stores in the 
 shopping center. For pipes, amber, and smokers' articles go to 
 Hoffman, 185 Madison Street. Toys are best bought at E. F. 
 Schwarz & Bros., 231 State Street, and in the department stores. 
 This list might, of course, be greatly extended, but it seems 
 hardly necessary. Chicagoans know where to go to get special 
 things at reduced rates, or of particularly good quality, and your 
 town acquaintances can give you more hints in fifteen minutes 
 than a book could tell you in as many pages. The services of a 
 guide from the Women's Directory, Purchasing and Chaperoning 
 Society can be obtained by strangers, at a moderate rate, at 26 
 Van Buren Street. 
 
VII. 
 
 THE PARKS, BOULEVARDS, AND 
 SQUARES OF CHICAGO. 
 
 It is to the broad acres of its parks, its beautiful and artistic 
 abundance of boulevards, that Chicago owes one of her adulatory 
 appellations, "The Garden City." The parks and driveways 
 aggregate 3,290 acres, while the boulevards already completed 
 are nearly 100 miles in total length. 
 
 The following parks and public squares are situated within 
 the city limits: 
 
 Acres 
 
 Aldine Square 1.44 
 
 Campbell Park 05 
 
 Congress Park .07 
 
 Dearborn Park 1. 43 
 
 Douglas Park 179-79 
 
 Douglas Monument Sq. 2.02 
 
 Ellis Park 3.38 
 
 Gage Park 20 
 
 Garfield Park 185.87 
 
 Green Bay Park .25 
 
 Groveland Park 3.04 
 
 Holstein Park 2.03 
 
 Humboldt Park 200 62 
 
 Acres. 
 
 Jefferson Park 5.05 
 
 Lake Front Park 41 
 
 Lincoln Park 250 
 
 Logan Square 4.25 
 
 Midway Plaisance 80 
 
 Oak Park 25 
 
 Shedd's Park i 
 
 Union Park 14.03 
 
 Union Square .05 
 
 Vernon Park 4 
 
 Washington Park 371 
 
 Washington Square .... 2.25 
 
 Wicker Park. 4 
 
 Woodlawn Park 3.86 
 
 Jackson Park 586 
 
 The boulevard system is intended to connect the parks by a 
 continuous chain of magnificent driveways circling the city with a 
 band of excellent roads, bordered with trees, metaled to the high- 
 est excellence for driving, and edged with cool green lawns on 
 either side. The park systems, with adjacent boulevards, are 
 under the control of three sets of commissioners, one for each of 
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 eous, and efficient police force, clothed in gray, being appointed to 
 preserve order, and by the use of mounted men to regulate traffic 
 and stop furious driving. A brief description of the principal 
 parks, and a notice of their most prominent features, must suffice 
 for the confined space available in the present work. 
 
 The Lake Front Park, with an area of forty-one acres, is 
 a narrow strip of land lying between the Michigan Avenue Boule- 
 vard and Lake Michigan, or rather the Illinois Central Railroad 
 tracks, and bounded north and south by Randolph Street and 
 Park Row, respectively. It was until recently much neglected, 
 and the nightly and daily haunt of Wear>' Raggles, with his 
 woe-begone, malodorous, and work-avoiding confreres, who 
 daily loafed and nightly laid in repo e on the benches and 
 greensward, to the intense disgust of the residents along the 
 Lake Front. However, as the control of the Lake Front 
 Park was turned over to the World's Columbian Exposition for 
 purposes incidental to the Exposition, a change has come over the 
 spirit of the scene. Lawns formerly decorated with dirty loafers 
 are now verdant and trimmed, while the cheap lodging-houses 
 profit by the closing of a cheaper competitor. Docks for the 
 excursion steamer traffic to the World's Fair are in course of con- 
 struction, including a viaduct over that eyesore of the city, the 
 railroad track. A statue of Columbus is also to be erected in 
 the park. 
 
 Proceeding southward, the south parks are approached by the 
 most beautiful boulevard in the city, Michigan Avenue. Starting 
 from the Leland Hotel, the visitor passes the Auditorium Building 
 and the Chicago Club on the right, the latter at the corner of Van 
 Buren Street. On his left, the green expanse of Lake Park 
 stretches out almost to the edge of the lake, from which it is sepa- 
 rated only by the track of the Illinois Central Railroad. Away 
 out are the lighthouse, the breakwaters, and crib, and the surface 
 of the lake is dotted with the white sails of innumerable craft. 
 The castellated Armory of the First Regiment is seen at the corner 
 of Sixteenth Street; and on Michigan and Prairie avenues, the 
 latter two blocks east, south of Sixteenth Street, the domestic 
 architecture of Chicago is observed at its best. Every available 
 
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 material, from wood, brick, sandstone, and limestone, to granite, 
 marble, terra cotta, has been employed, and wrought up into 
 forms of beauty hardly less creditable to the merchant prince 
 who could appreciate than to the architect who could design 
 them. On the northeast corner of Michigan Avenue and Twen- 
 tieth Street has been erected a magnificent house for the Calu- 
 met Club. It is in the Queen Anne style, and cost, with the 
 ground and furniture, about a quarter of a million dollars. On 
 the northwest corner stands the handsome edifice of the Second 
 
 Presbyterian Society. One 
 block east and south are the 
 First Presbyterian Church 
 and the Synagogue of the 
 Sinai Congregation. Two 
 blocks west, at 2020 State 
 Street, are the headquarters 
 of the City (Cable) Railway 
 Company, where is exerted 
 the force which propels, 
 through many miles of 
 streets, the hundreds of 
 cable cars which the visitor 
 sees gliding rapidly along. 
 At Twenty-third Street, Im- 
 manuel (Baptist) Church, on 
 the right, and the Church of 
 the Messiah (Unitarian), on 
 the left, are passed. Near 
 Twenty-fourth Street are 
 Christ (Episcopal Reformed) Church and the Moseley Grammar 
 School. Between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth streets, on the 
 east side, is Plymouth (Congregational) Church, a fine edifice; and 
 at the southeast corner of the latter. Trinity (Episcopal) Church, a 
 neat, double-turreted Gothic structure. At the foot of Thirty fifth 
 Street Douglas Monument is to be found. Having pursued his way 
 to Thirty-ninth Street (Oakwood Boulevard), where he enters the 
 township of Hyde Park, the visitor will proceed to Washington 
 Park (formerly known as the west division of the South Park), by 
 
 Drexel Fountain. 
 
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 Drexel Boulevard. This magnificent drive, which is 200 feet wide 
 throughout, and i^ miles in length, is laid out after the model of 
 the celebrated Avenue de I'lmperatrice, in Paris. Parallel wathit, 
 five blocks west, runs Grand Boulevard, by which the return journey 
 may be made. An immense amount of money has been expended 
 on the two south parks, Washington and Jackson, and, as far as 
 completed, they are delightful pleasure resorts; the former, which 
 contains one of the largest unbroken lawns in the world and also 
 a fine conservatory, being not unlike the famous Kew Gardens, 
 near London. It may be mentioned that the cable railway extends 
 from Oakwood Boulevard south to Fifty-fifth vStreet, along which 
 a connecting line runs ea^t to near the north end of Jackson Park. 
 Fifty-fifth Street, for 4^ miles west of Washington Park, has been 
 laid out as part of the encircling system, and given the name of 
 Garfield Boulevard. It is an almost perfect drive, and its exten- 
 sion northward will be completed soon. 
 
 Washington and Jackson parks, containing respectively 371 and 
 586 acres, are connected by Midway Plaisance with a superficial 
 area of another eighty acres. 
 
 Washington Park is bounded on the north by Fifty-first 
 Street, east by Cottage Grove Avenue, south by Sixtieth Street, and 
 on the west by South Park Avenue, a prolongation of Grand Boule- 
 vard. Jackson Park, now so noticeable as the site of the World's 
 Columbian Exposition, is bounded north by Fifty-sixth Street, 
 east by Lake Michigan, south by Sixty-seventh Street, and west by 
 Stony Island Avenue. Its form is that of an irregular square, 
 growing gradually larger toward the soifithern end. To reach the 
 parks, the cable cars on Cottage Grove Avenue, on Wabash Ave- 
 nue, and those on State Street may be used to land the visitor in 
 close proximity, while the Illinois Central Railroad (fare 25 cents 
 round trip) and South Side Elevated Road (single fare 5 cents) are 
 more expeditious methods of traveling. 
 
 Brief, indeed, must the mention be of the prominent features 
 of the park system of Chicago. Volumes could be written of the 
 verdant groves and well kept lawns, but the limits of the pres- 
 ent work forbid. 
 
 Jackson Park and Midway Plaisance, being entirely given 
 over to the buildings and grounds of the Exposition, will be 
 
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 found separately described in an appropriate chapter. See 
 Chapter XIX. 
 
 In Washington Park the principal points of interest are the 
 ball grounds, the retreat, a small menagerie, the artificial lake, 
 the magnificent flower beds, and the water-lily ponds. 
 
 Douglas Park, containing 179.79 acres, is connected with 
 Garfield Park by the Douglas Boulevard. It extends on the north 
 to Twelfth Street, on the east I0 California Avenue, on the south 
 to Nineteenth Street, and on the west to Albany Avenue. The 
 park is another of the prairie parks, situated beyond the built-up 
 streets of the city, on the open plain, free to all breezes from any 
 direction. Though comparatively small, it is a beautiful and 
 popular park, and is especially notable as the spot selected by the 
 Chinese of Chicago for their annual "Festival of the Kites," 
 which is religiously observed with each returning August. Eleven 
 acres of the park are covered by a picturesque lake, fed with the 
 mineral water of an artesian well, gushing out in a romantic grotto, 
 rhe water is medicinal, with properties similar to those of Gar- 
 neld and Humboldt parks. A notable feature of this park is the 
 mimense conservatory, which annually furnishes 60,000 plants for 
 transpla! ting. 
 
 Douglas Park is reached by the Twelfth Street cars, which 
 run on Randolph Street to Fifth Avenue; by the Ogden Avenue 
 cars, which run on Madison Street, and by the local trains of the 
 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, which stop at Douglas 
 Park Station. The depot is the Union, at Canal and Adams 
 streets. The Chicago Passenger Railway Company's tracks have 
 been extended to Douglas Park, via Western Avenue and Twelfth 
 Street. The driving route is along Washington Boulevard to 
 Garfield Park, thence to Douglas Park by the Douglas Boulevard. 
 
 Garfield Park is reached by passing north along i? miles 
 of boulevard, and contains 18 5. 87 acres. It is the most westerly 
 of the park system, and is bounded on the north by Kinzie Street, 
 east by Central Park Avenue, south by Colorado Avenue, and 
 west by Hamlin Street. The principal features are the seventeen 
 acres of ornamental water, the Humane Society's drinking trough, 
 and a mineral and medicinal spring. The park is reached by 
 
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 HANDY GUIDE TO CHTCAGO, 
 
 Madison Street (Fortieth) cars, or by local trains of the C. & 
 N.-W. R. R. (from the Wells and Kinzie Street depot), 
 
 Humboldt Park, 200.62 acres, with a fine lake and choice 
 flower gardens, is the most northerly park on the West Side. It 
 is remarkable as the most elevated of all the Chicago parks. 
 
 Lincoln Park, 250 acres — bounded on the south by North 
 Avenue, west by North Clark Street, North Park Avenue, and Lake 
 View Avenue — is reached by the North Side cable road, or by steam- 
 .boat in the summer months from the foot of Van Buren Street. It 
 is, possibly, the most beautiful of all the parks, and certainly the 
 
 Lake Stockton, Lincoln Park. 
 
 most interesting in special features, the principal items of interest 
 being the life-size statue of Abraham Lincoln and the equestrian 
 monument of Gen. U S. Grant, overlooking Lake Michigan. As 
 to the latter, within two hours of the death, on July 23, 1885, of 
 the hero of Appomatox and Vicksburg, Mr. Potter Palmer had 
 started the memorial fund by promising $5,000, and within four 
 days $42,000 was subscribed, the total reaching $65,000 within 
 one year. The sculptor was Louis T. Rebisso, an Italian e.xile, 
 and after some defective castings the completed monument was 
 
PARKS, BOULEVARDS, AND SQUARES. 8i 
 
 unveiled with imposing ceremonies, on Wednesday, October 7, 
 i8gi, in the presence of a parade of over 8,500 military and civic 
 organizations, with over 150,000 individual spectators. The 
 statue is 18 feet 3 inches in height, and is the largest casting ever 
 attempted in this country. It was struck by lightning on the 
 evening of the i6th of June, 1892, during a severe thunderstorm, 
 and some thirty persons sheltering in the corridor beneath it were 
 stunned and felled to the ground, three being killed and several 
 severely injured. The statue and pedestal were, however, sub- 
 jected to very trivial damage. 
 
 The La Salle Monument, erected in i88g, near the lake; a 
 group of relics of the fire; the Ottawa Indian Monument; a 
 lake, and a well stocked menagerie, near by, are well worth inspect- 
 ing. Statues of Linneeus and Frederick Von Schiller, water-lily 
 ponds, and a beautiful electric fountain, the gift of Mr. C. T. 
 Yerkes, which is operated 8-9 P. m. every pleasant evening in 
 summer, are Items which only require to be seen to be appreciated. 
 The Take Shore Drive and the view of Lake Michigan therefrom 
 deserve a visit, as well as the two sphinxes at Garfield Avenue 
 entrance; these, some over-modest Park Commissioners once clad in 
 iron sheets until ridicule removed the vesture. 
 
 In the summer months open-air musical performances are 
 r^egularly given on certain advertised evenings in the principal 
 parks, during suitable weather. It is a sight worthy of more than 
 one visit. Particulars appear in the daily press. 
 
THE PULLMAN BUILDING. 
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VIII. 
 A TOUR OF THE CITY. 
 
 What is the best route to take for a day's tour of the heart of 
 Chicago? This is a question that might be debated a long time 
 and yet pass without a satisfactory answer. In the first place, 
 even excluding all the sights dealt with at length in other chap- 
 ters, such as the harbor, the parks, the theaters, etc., it 
 would be a huge day of hard work to attempt to inspect one-half 
 of the remaining features of Chicago. It is, therefore, proposed 
 here merely to describe the principal buildings interesting to the 
 average visitor and not to be found described in detail in other 
 portions of this guide, assisting his search for any other special 
 features by a list of the remainder, aided as he will be by the 
 ample index to be found at the end of this book. 
 
 Streets and Bui/dings. 
 
 Ccmmercial Buildings. — With its wide streets rectangularly 
 laid out, and its level surface, the business section of Chicago, 
 crowded with buildings that are simply magnificent in proportion 
 and design, presents an appearance of age and stability that makes 
 the brevity of its history seem almost fabulous. Within the space 
 comprised between the Chicago River on the north and west, Har- 
 rison Street on the south, and the lake on the east, there is a col- 
 lection of mercantile buildings, probably unsurpassed, in an equal 
 area, at any other place on the globe. The visitor is bewildered 
 at the wonderful perspective of massive facades; and if he chance 
 to be returning after an absence of but a few years, his astonish- 
 ment at the marvelous transformation will be boundless. Clustered 
 around the Board of Trade are the Rialto, Central, Rookery, Royal 
 Insurance, Phcenix Insurance, Counselman, Calumet, Mailer, and 
 
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 other office buildings; and within a few squares many more equally 
 imposing — the ISIontauk Block and the First National Bank Build- 
 ing, at Monroe and Dearborn streets; the Auditorium, containing 
 the United States signal station, at Michigan Avenue and Con- 
 gress Street; Adams Express Building, 185 Dearborn Street; the 
 gigantic Pullman Building, at the corner of Adams Street and 
 Michigan Avenue; the Masonic Temple, corner of State and 
 Randolph streets; the Monadnock and Kearsarge Building, on 
 Jackson and Van Buren streets, and the magnificent Studebaker 
 Building, on Michigan Avenue, south of Van Buren Street. These 
 structures have all been planned and erected on a most generous 
 scale. The principal type of architecture is the Romanesque or 
 Round-arch Gothic, and the materials vary from brick, terra cotta, 
 and iron to brown stone, marble, and granite. Among them, the 
 following will repay more than a cursory examination: 
 
 The Rand-McNally Building, located at 160-174 Adams 
 Street, has a frontage of 149 feet on Adams Street, and 166 feet 
 back to Quincy. The fact that this building was the first steel 
 structure erected in Chicago makes it of peculiar interest. It is 
 ten stories in height. The two fronts and the interior are fire- 
 proofed, the former with terra cotta, the latter with fire-clay, leav- 
 ing no part of the steel exposed. The building is a model in size, 
 durability, and convenience, and is absolutely fire -proof. The 
 publishing and printing house of Rand, McNally & Co. started in 
 1856. Since then the growth of its business has been steady and 
 phenomenal. This growth has necessitated several removals and 
 enlargements of quarters. In the present location, however, 
 ample provisions have been made for future expansion. 
 
 The Rookery Building, occupying the block bounded by 
 Adams, La Salle, and Quincy streets, and Rookery Place. It is 
 170 X 180 feet, and eleven stones high, built of syenite granite up to 
 the third story, and the rest of brown brick and terra cotta, in the 
 Romanesque style. 
 
 Marshall Field & Co.'s Buildings. — The wholesale and 
 retail departments of this well-known firm occupy separate build- 
 ings. The wholesale warehouse, a magnificent structure, covers 
 the entire square bounded by Fifth Avenue, Adams, Quincy, and 
 Franklin streets. It is built of granite and brown stone. Within, 
 
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 the building is divided into three sections by two parallel fire- 
 walls, extending from front to rear. The entrance-way admits 
 one into the center section, an immense room, about 175 feet 
 square, occupied by the executive departments. On the side of 
 the passage-way is the counting-room, with its numerous depart- 
 ments, and its clerical force of 190 men; and the various private 
 rooms of the executive heads. On the other are the general sales- 
 men and their assistants. Within the walls there are 1,700 men em- 
 
 ai'BiiHSflflfliiiiiiaftifiv^ 
 
 
 The Rand-McNally Building 
 
 ployed in thirty-four departments. There are eight floors, each of 
 which has an area of nearly i\ acres, a total of nearly twelve acres 
 of floor space. From this establishment every week is sent forth an 
 average of nearly $700,000 worth of merchandise. The structure 
 occupied by the retail department is located on the corner of State 
 and Washington streets. The present premises have a frontage 
 of 260 feet on State Street and 150 feet on Washington Street, 
 
86 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 with a height of seven floors in the main structure and six in those 
 adjoining, giving a total floor space of about six acres. The interior 
 of the main building is pure white, and is lighted by a great central 
 open quadrangle or skylight. About the four sides of this quad- 
 rangle, on the second floor, is a pretty resting-place, where women 
 may indite their notes, exchange pleasant chat, or rest after the 
 fatigue of shopping. Another unique feature is the women's tea- 
 room. This dainty apartment is situated on an upper floor, 
 entirely isolated from the rest of the establishment. The cuisine 
 is perfect. The service is quiet and elegant. Here nearly 1,500 
 people are daily served. 
 
 The Insurance Exchange Building, which occupies the 
 block on La Salle Street between Adams and Quincy streets, is 
 66 X 170 feet, and ten stories high. The first story. is built of blue 
 Bedford limestone, the superstructure being of brick and terracotta. 
 There are three elevators, with provision for three more, if required. 
 
 J. V. Farwell & Co.'s Building, on Market Street between 
 Monroe and Adams streets, is of similar interest. It includes the 
 entire block bounded on three sides by the streets just named, and 
 on the fourth by the river. Its dimensions are 400 feet (on 
 Market Street) by 275 feet deep, and it contains six stories and 
 two basements. The materials of which it is constructed are iron 
 and red pressed brick. The cost was $1,000,000. J. V. Farwell 
 & Co., wholesale dry -goods merchants, occupy the largest portion 
 of the building, though the Market Street front is occupied by a 
 row of stores which are rented to other firms. 
 
 The Rialto Building fronts on Sherman and Van Buren 
 streets and Pacific Avenue, and extends north to the alley separat- 
 ing it from the Board of Trade Building. The dimensions are 
 145x175 feet, and it is nine stories high. The cost of the 
 building was about $700,000. 
 
 The Home Insurance Building is located on the northeast 
 corner of Ta Salle and Adams streets. It is ten stories high, and 
 covers a ground space of 14,000 square feet. The cost of erection 
 was about $800,000. 
 
 The Phcenix Insurance Building fronts on Pacific Avenue 
 facing the Board of Trade Building, Jackson Street facing the 
 Grand Pacific Hotel, and Clark Street. It covers a ground space 
 
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 50x214 feet, and contains ten stones, of which the uppermost 
 is twenty-two feet in height. The lower three stories are built of 
 Vert Island brown stone, and the balance of red pressed brick and 
 terra cotta, while the claim is that it contains one of the hand- 
 somest interiors, among buildings of its class, in the United States. 
 It is finished throughout with mahogany, and all offices have mar- 
 ble bases, while all halls and stairways are made entirely of white 
 
 The Rookery Building. 
 
 marble, the latter being fitted with bronze rails. In this building 
 are to be found the General Western Offices of the Phoenix Insur- 
 ance Company, occupying the entire top floor. They cover a 
 floor space of 50x210 feet, and are twenty-two feet high, the 
 entire area being a clear space, uninterrupted by columns or par- 
 titions, and the interior view afforded is notable among the com- 
 mercial offices of the country. The cost of the building was 
 about $700,000. 
 
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 Siegel, Cooper & Co. — The magnificent structure now occu. 
 pied by this firm was erected from the designs of W. I.. B. Jenney, 
 in 1892, and is the largest store in the world used for retail pur- 
 poses. It stands on State Street, and extends from Van Buren to 
 Congress streets, being 402 feet in length by 143 feet in depth, and 
 is 1 33! feet in height, divided into eight stories, basement, and attic. 
 The material used is a steel and iron combination, thoroughly fire- 
 proofed, the street fronts being of a very light, warm gray granite, 
 from Kearsarge Mountain, near North Conway, New Hampshire, 
 The floors are of fire-proof tile arches, tested to several times the 
 load that can possibly come upon them. The concern of Siegel, 
 Cooper & Co. is incorporated under the laws of Illinois, and is, 
 therefore, a stock company. The business of the house is divided 
 into sixty-one departments, covering every conceivable commod- 
 ity in small wares and dry goods. A small army of employes, 
 1,800 in all, is required to minister to the wants of customers who 
 daily throng the spacious floors of the building, which, in all, 
 comprise nearly 600,000 square feet, or about 15 acres, exceeding 
 by 100,000 square feet the floor space of the Bon March6 in 
 Paris, which, hitherto, has been reputed the largest retail store in 
 the world. 
 
 The Pullman Building, at the corner of Michigan Avenue 
 and Adams Street, besides being one of the largest and handsomest 
 oftice buildings in the city, is an object of interest as the official 
 headquarters and home of the world-famous Pullman Palace Car 
 Company. As everyone knows, this corporation is a very young 
 one; and yet, within the few years of its existence, it has taken a 
 permanent position among the conveniences and comforts of civ- 
 ilization. In the United States, Canada, and Mexico its cars are run 
 regularly over 70,000 miles of railroad, while in England and 
 Europe some twenty-four through lines have adopted the cars, a 
 marked improvement on the old system. 
 
 The Unity Building is an office building located on the east 
 side of Dearborn Street, between Washington and Randolph 
 streets. It is sixteen stories high, is fire-proof, and cost about 
 $1,000,000. The main frame-work of the building is built of iron 
 and steel, and is so arranged as to makethe very best construction 
 Of the outer walls, the lower two and one-half stories are of Bay 
 
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 of Fundy red granite, and the remainder are of the finest quahty 
 of buff-colored pressed brick and terra cotta. All the floors are 
 constructed of strong tile arches, supported by steel beams. The 
 partitions are of hollow tile and crystalline glass. The floors in 
 the office are of hard wood. The halls are lined with white Italian 
 
 
 The Unity Building. 
 
 marble, and have mosaic and ornamental tile floors. The wood 
 trimmings in the ofiices are of antique oak. The stairway is of 
 steel, with marble treads. 
 
 The Ashland Block is situated on the northeast corner of 
 Clark and Randolph streets. The floors are made of heaw tile 
 
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 arches, and are covered with a maple-finished floor, except in the 
 hails and entrances, where the handsome marble and mosaic floors 
 are expensive and artistic enough to suit the most fastidious taste. 
 
 The Herald Building, the home of the Chicago //tvaA/, is not 
 only a completely fitted newspaper oflice, but a magnificent struct- 
 ure as well. Solidly built, elegant in interior appointments, and 
 replete with all the modern conveniences, it is a feature in urban 
 architecture. The building is located at 154-158 Washington 
 street. Its height is 124 feet. The facade of this massive struct- 
 ure is beautiful in outline, and the architecture may be termed 
 the Norman Renaissance, with Gothic details. The base of the 
 building is of red granite and the elevation of terra coita. The 
 interior is finished in magnificent style. Sienna marble columns 
 support an arched ceiling, embossed and finished in tints of ivory 
 and gold, which are in beautiful harmony with the arabesque work 
 on the walls. The floor is of Italian mosaic. About 200 incan- 
 descent lamps and thirty arc lights are used to illuminate the ground 
 floor. 
 
 The Schiller was erected by the German Opera House Com- 
 pany at a cost of $700,000. The purpose of ihe formation of the 
 corporation was the construction and maintenance of a first-class 
 fire-proof theater building for the production of plays in the 
 German and English longues, besides providing smaller halls and 
 club rooms. Besides the theater and halls, there are also 204 
 offices, two stores, and a large restaurant. The building is built 
 of gray stone, and is beautiful and imposing. The Schiller is 
 located on Randolph Street between Clark and Dearborn streets. 
 
 The Masonic Temple is located on the northeast co ner of 
 State and Randolph streets. It is probably the highest ofti e 
 building in the world. The main entrance is beautiful and im- 
 posing. A twelve-foot corridor runs, on every floor, around the 
 interior of the building. The Temple is twenty stories high. The 
 first sixteen stories are used for oflice and store purposes. The 
 seventeenth and eighteenth stories are used by the Masonic 
 fraternity. See Chapter XIV. 
 
 The Temple, corner of La Salle and Monroe streets, was 
 erected by the Woman's Temperance Building Association. The 
 building is one of the most magnificent exhibits of architecture in 
 
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 the city. It has a frontage of 190 feet on La Salle Street, and is 
 ninety-six feet deep. The building cost $1,100,000, and the 
 ground site has an equal valuation. The first two stories are 
 faced with rich red granite; the remaining stories with red brick 
 
 
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 The Title & Trust Building. 
 
 to correspond. The architecture of the building is French Gothic. 
 The building itself consists of two wings united by a narrow 
 middle portion called the vinculum. Large courts admit light and 
 air. The La Salle Street front is made continuous to a lofty 
 
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 stone arch which forms the main entrance. The four corners 
 presented to La Salle Street have a rounded turret treatment, and 
 the intermediate windows in front of each wing are grouped under 
 a broad arch in the next story. The steep roof is broken into 
 terraces, marking the three stories above the cornices. 
 
 The Title & Trust Building, located at 98-102 Washington 
 Street, is a magnificent structure, seventeen stories in height, 
 built from plans made by Henry Ives Cobb, architect. The cost 
 of the building and ground was $1,300,000, both being the prop- 
 erty of the Chicago Title & Trust Company, a corporation cap- 
 italized at $1,500,000. 
 
 The following list of the principal office buildings, with their 
 location, will be found useful; 
 
 PRINCIPAL OFFICE BUILDINGS. 
 
 ^ Adams Express^ 185 Dearborn Street. 
 Allerton, South Water Street near State Street. 
 American Express, 72 and 74 Monroe Street. 
 A. H. Andrews ^ Co., 215 Wabash Avenue. 
 Andrews, 155 La Salle Street. 
 Ashland, Clark and Randolph streets. 
 Arcade, 156-164 Clark Street. 
 Atlas, 45-61 Wabash Avenue. 
 Athenccum, 12 and 14 Van Buren Street. 
 Auditorium, Congress Street and Wabash Avenue 
 Ayers, 166-172 State Street. 
 Batchelder, Clark and Randolph streets. 
 Bay State, State and Randolph streets. 
 Board of Trade, La Salle and Jackson streets. 
 Bonfield, 199 Randolph Street. 
 Borden, Randolph and Dearborn streets. 
 Bort, 17-21 Quincy Street. 
 Boyce, 112 and 114 Dearborn Street. 
 Boylston, 265-269 Dearborn Street. 
 Brother Jonathan, 4 Sherman Street. 
 Bryan, 160-174 La Salle Street. 
 Calumet, 187-191 I^a Salle Street. 
 Caxton, 328 Dearborn Street. 
 Central Manufacturing, 74-88 Market Street. 
 Central Music Hall, State and Randolph streets. 
 Central Union, IT] Madison Street. 
 Ceylon, Wabash Avenue and Lake Street. 
 Chajuber of Cotnvierce, Washington and La Salle streets. 
 Chemical Bank, 87 Dearborn Street. 
 
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 Chicago Opera House, Clark and Washington streets. 
 
 Chickering Music Hall, 239 Wabash Avenue. • 
 
 Cisco^ 84 and 86 Washington Street. 
 
 Citizens' Bank, 119 and 121 La Salle Street. 
 
 City Hall^ Washington and La Salle streets. 
 
 Cobbs, 124 and 126 Dearborn Street. 
 
 Columbus, State and Washington streets. 
 
 Commerce, 14 and 16 Pacific Avenue. 
 
 Co??ijnercial National Bank, Monroe and Dearborn streets. 
 
 Como, 325 Dearborn Street. 
 
 Counselman, La Salle and Jackson streets. 
 
 Court House, Washington and Clark streets. 
 
 Crilly ^ Blair, 171 Dearborn Street. 
 
 Criminal Court, Michigan Street and Dearborn Avenue. 
 
 Custom House, Clark and Adams streets. 
 
 Dale, 308 Dearborn Street. 
 
 Davison, 153 Fifth Avenue. 
 
 De Soto, 146 Madison Street. 
 
 Dexter, 76 Adams Street. 
 
 Dickey, 46 Dearborn Street. 
 
 Donahue df Henneberry , 407 Dearborn Street. 
 
 Dore, State and Madison streets. 
 
 Drake, Wabash Avenue and Washington Street. 
 
 Dyche, State and Randolph streets. 
 
 Ely, Wabash Avenue and Monroe Street. 
 
 Empire, 130 La Salle Street. 
 
 Eqtdtable, iio Dearborn Street. 
 
 Evening Journal, 161 Dearborn Street. 
 
 Evening Post, 164 and 166 Washington Street. 
 
 Exchange, Van Buren Street and Pacific Avenue. 
 
 Fairbanks , Wabash Avenue and Randolph Street. 
 
 First National Bank, Dearborn and Monroe streets. 
 
 Foote, Clark and Monroe streets. 
 
 Forbes, 193 Washington Street. 
 
 Franklin, 349 Dearborn Street. 
 
 Fry, 84 and 86 La Salle Street. 
 
 Fuller, 148 and 156 Dearborn Street. 
 
 Fullerton, 94 and 96 Dearborn Street. 
 
 Gaff, 230 La Salle Street. 
 
 Girard, 296 Dearborn Street. 
 
 Greenebaum, 72 Fifth Avenue. 
 
 Grocers, 29-43 Wabash Avenue. 
 
 Hale, State and Washington streets. 
 
 Hampshire, La Salle and Monroe streets. 
 
 Hansen, 116 Dearborn Street. 
 
 Harding, 155 Washington Street. 
 
 Hawley, 134 Dearborn Street. 
 
 Hennin^ 6^ Speed, 12 1 Dearborn Street. 
 
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 Herald^ 154 Washington Street. 
 
 Hobbs, 95 Washington Street. 
 
 Holt, 165 Washington Street. 
 
 Holbrook, 215 Wabash Avenue. 
 
 Home hisiirance. La Salle and Adams streets. 
 
 Honore, 204 Dearborn Street. 
 
 Hoivland, 192 Dearborn Street. 
 
 Hytnan, 146 South Water Street. 
 
 Illinois Bank, 117 Dearborn Street. 
 
 hnperial, 1^1 Clark Street. 
 
 Ingals, 190 Clark Street. 
 
 Insurance Exchange, La Salle and Adams streets. 
 
 Inter-Ocean, Dearborn and Madison streets. 
 
 Jarvis, 124 Clark Street. 
 
 John Jones, 119 Dearborn Street. 
 
 Katcihditi, Dearborn Street, near Van Buren Street. 
 
 Kedzie, 120 and 122 Randolph Street. 
 
 Kearsarge, Dearborn and Jackson streets. 
 
 Kent Block, 151 Monroe Street. 
 
 Kent Building, 12 Sherman Street. 
 
 Kentucky, 195-203 Clark Street. 
 
 Kimball Hall, 243-253 Wabash Avenue. 
 
 Kingsbury, 115 Randolph Street. 
 
 Kittg, 85 Washington Street. 
 
 lakeside, Clark and Adams streets. 
 
 La Fayette, 70 La Salle Street. 
 
 La Salle, La Salle and Madison streets. 
 
 Lenox, 88 and 90 Washington Street. 
 
 Lind, Randolph and Market streets. 
 
 Lowell, 308 Dearborn Street. 
 
 Lumber Exchange, South Water and Franklin streets 
 
 Maior, 151 La Salle Street. 
 
 Mailers, 226 and 228 La Salle Street. 
 
 Manhattan, 307-321 Dearborn Street. 
 
 Manietre, Madison and Dearborn streets. 
 
 Marine, Lake and La Salle streets. 
 
 Masoft, 94 Washington Street. 
 
 Masonic Temple, State and Randolph streets. 
 
 McCormick, 73 Dearborn Street. 
 
 McNeil, 130 Clark Street, 
 
 McVickers, 78-84 Madison Street. 
 
 Mentor^ 163 State Street. 
 
 Mercantile, 11 2-1 18 La Salle Street. 
 
 Merchants, La Salle and Washington streets. 
 
 Methodist Church, Washington and Clark streets. 
 
 Metropolitan, Randolph and La Salle streets. 
 
 Monadnock, Dearborn and Jackson streets. 
 
 Monon, yit Dearborn Street. 
 
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 Montauk, 111-117 Monroe Street. 
 
 Morrison, Clark and Madison streets. 
 
 National Life, 157-1^3 l^a Salle Street. 
 
 Nevada, Franklin and Washington streets. 
 
 Nixon, 169-175 La Salle Street. 
 
 Northern Office, Lake and La Salle streets. 
 
 Open Board of Trade, 18-24 Pacific Avenue. 
 
 Oriental, 122 La Salle Street. 
 
 Otis, 158 La Salle Street. 
 
 Owings, 213 Dearborn Street. 
 
 Oxford, 84 La Salle Street. 
 
 Parker, 97 Washington Street. 
 
 Phenix, 138 Jackson Street. 
 
 Pontiac, Dearborn and Harrison streets. 
 
 Portland, 109 Dearborn Street. 
 
 Post Office, Clark and Adams streets, 
 
 Potzuin, 126 Washington Street. 
 
 Potvers, Madison Street and Michigan Avenue. 
 
 Pullman, Adams Street and Michigan Avenue. 
 
 Purington, 304 Wabash Avenue. 
 
 Qiiincy, Clark and Adams streets. 
 
 Quintan, 81 and 83 Clark Street. 
 
 Rand-McNally, 160-174 Adams Street. 
 
 Rawson, 70-74 Dearborn Street. 
 
 Real Estate Board, 59 Dearborn Street. 
 
 Reaper, Washington and Clark streets. 
 
 Rialto, Sherman and Van Buren streets. 
 
 Rookery, Adams and La Salle streets. 
 
 Royal Insurance, 165 Jackson Street. 
 
 Ryeison, 49 Randolph Street. 
 
 St. Marys, Madison Street and Wabash Avenue. 
 
 Safe, 51-55 Dearborn Street. 
 
 San Die^o, Wabash Avenue and River Street. 
 
 5r///7/6'^ Randolph Street, between Clark and Dearborn streets. 
 
 Schloesscr, La Salle and Adams streets. 
 
 Sears, 99 and loi Washington Street. 
 
 Security, Fifth Avenue and Madison Street. 
 
 Shepherd, Madison Street, near Fifth Avenue. 
 
 Shreve, 93 Washington Street. 
 
 Sibley, 2-16 North Clark Street. 
 
 Staats Zeitung, 99 Fifth Avenue. 
 
 Stock Exchange, 1 71 Dearborn Street. 
 
 Stewart, State and Washington streets. 
 
 Stevens' Art, 24 and 26 Adams Street. 
 
 Superior, 77 and 79 Clark Street. 
 
 Syracuse, 173 Randolph Street. 
 
 Taconia, La Salle and Madison streets. 
 
 Taylor^ 140 Monroe Street. 
 
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 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 Telephone, 203 Washington Street. 
 Temple Court, 225 Dearborn Street. 
 Teutonia, Fifth Avenue and Washington Street. 
 Times, Fifth Avenue and Washington Street. 
 Title df Trust, 58-102 Washington Street. 
 Tobey, 243 State Street. 
 Traders, 6-12 Pacific Avenue. 
 Trayner, 182 State Street. 
 Tribune, Dearborn and Madison streets. 
 Union, Washington and La Salle streets. 
 Unity, 75-81 Dearborn Street. 
 U. S. Express, 87 Washington Street. 
 University Club, 116 and 118 Dearborn Street. 
 Vermont, 155 Fifth Avenue. 
 Venetian, 34 and 36 Washington Street. 
 Wadsivorth, 181 Madison Street. 
 Watson, 123 La Salle Street. 
 Washington, no Fifth Avenue. 
 
 Western Bank Note, Michigan Avenue and Madison Street. 
 Wheeler, 6 and 8 Sherman Street. 
 Williams, 87 Dearborn Street. 
 Willoughby, Franklin and Jackson streets. 
 W. C. T. U. Temple, La Salle and Monroe streets. 
 Y. M. C. A., La Salle Street, between Madison and Monroe 
 streets. 
 
 Marshall Field & Co.'s Wholesale Building, Fifth Avenue and Adams Street 
 
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 The Banks. 
 
 On May 17, 1892, twenty-four National banks were doing 
 business ia Chicago. The total amount of their capital and 
 surplus was $35,304,652. They held deposits amounting to 
 $143,408,951, and the amount of their commercial loans was 
 $102,421,765. At the head of these great financial concerns 
 stands the First National Bank, lattly removed into a new and 
 magnificent building on the northwest corner of Dearborn and 
 Monroe streets; while the Chicago National Bank, on the south- 
 west corner of the same streets, though young, has gained an 
 excellent reputation. Besides the National banks, numerous 
 private banks and bankers furnish the merchants and manufact- 
 urers of Chicago with the banking facilities they require. 
 
 List of Banks. — For the convenience of visitors a full and 
 revised list of the banks of Chicago is appended; 
 
 American Exchange National Bank, Dearborn and Jackson 
 streets. 
 
 Atlas National Bank, southwest corner Washington and La 
 Salle streets. 
 
 Bankers' National Bajik, Masonic Temple, corner State and 
 Randolph streets. 
 
 Bank of Co/uiiierce, 188-192 La Salle Street (Woman's Tem- 
 ple Building). 
 
 Bank of Montreal, 188-192 La Salle Street (Woman's Tem- 
 ple Building). 
 
 Central Trust <^ Savings Bank, corner Fifth Avenue and 
 Washington Street. 
 
 Chemical National Bank, 85 Dearborn Street. 
 
 Chicago Clearing House Association, 103 Monroe Street. 
 
 Chicago National Bank, southwest corner Dearborn and 
 Monroe streets. 
 
 Chicago Tmst ^ Savings Bank, 122 and 124 Washington 
 Street. 
 
 Cohwibia National Bank, northwest corner La Salle and 
 Quincy streets. 
 
 Commercial Loa7i ^ Trust Co., 115 La Salle Street. 
 
 Commeirial N^ational Bank, southeast corner Dearborn and 
 Monroe streets. 
 
 Continental National Bank, southwest corner La Salle and 
 Adams streets. 
 
 Co7n Exchange Bank, 217 La Salle Street (Rookery Building). 
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 Division Street Bank, 319 East Division Street. 
 
 Drovers' National Bank, 4207 South Halsted Street. 
 
 First National Bank, northwest corner Dearborn and Mon- 
 roe streets. 
 
 Fort Dearborn National Bank, 187 Dearborn Street (Adams 
 Express Building). 
 
 Hibernian Banking Association, northeast corner Clark and 
 Randolph streets. 
 
 Hide (Sr" Leather National Bank, southeast corner La Salle 
 and Madison streets. 
 
 Home National Bank of Chicago, 184 West Washington Street. 
 
 Illinois Trust <5f Savings Bank, southeast corner La Salle 
 and Adams streets. 
 
 International Bank, no La Salle Street. 
 
 Merchants'' Loan df Trust Co,, 103 Dearborn Street. 
 
 Merchants' N^ational Bank, 80 and 82 La Salle Street. 
 
 Metropolitan Natiotial Bank, 188-192 La Salle Street (Woman's 
 Temple Building). 
 
 National Bank of America, 188-192 La Salle Street. 
 
 National Bank of Illinois, 115 Dearborn Street. 
 
 National Live Stock Bank, Union Stock Yards. 
 
 Northwestern Bond df Trnst Co, 175-179 Dearborn Street. 
 
 Northwestern National Bank, southeast corner La Salle and 
 Adams streets. 
 
 Oakland National, 3961 Cottage Grove Avenue. 
 
 Park National Bank, northwest corner Washington and !"> 1-- 
 born streets. 
 
 Prairie State N'ational, no West Washington Street. 
 
 Union N'ational Bank, northeast corner La Salle and Adams 
 streets. 
 
 Union Trust Company, corner Dearborn and Madison srect: . 
 
 SAVINGS BANKS. 
 
 Chicago Trust df Savings Bank, 122 and 124 Washington Street. 
 
 Lime Savings Bank, 104 and 106 Washington Street. 
 
 Hibernian Banking Association, northeast corner Clark and 
 Randolph streets. 
 
 Home Savings Bank of Chicago, 184 West Washington Street. 
 
 Illinois Trust &= Savings Bank, southeast corner La Salle and 
 Adams streets. 
 
 Prairie State Savitf^s 6^ Trtcst Co. , 45 South Desplaines Street. 
 
 Union Trust Company Savings Bank, 133 Dearborn Street 
 
 BANKERS. 
 
 W. T. Richards &" Co., 71 Dearborn Street. 
 Brezvster, Edivard L. er" Cb., corner Dearborn and Monroe 
 streets. 
 
 Buehler, John, northwest corner La Salle and Randolph streets, 
 Claussenius, H. 6^ Co., 82 Fifth Avenue. 
 
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 Drcyer, E. S, 6^ Co., northeast corner Washington and 
 Dearborn streets. 
 
 Felsenthal, Gross &^ Miller^ io8 La Salle Street. 
 
 Foreman, H. G. ^f Bros., 128 and 130 Washington Street. 
 
 Harris, N. W. ^ Co., 163 and 165 Dearborn Street. 
 
 Kennet, Hopkins of Co., Board of Trade Building. 
 
 Mayer, Leopold &^ Son, 157 Randolph Street. 
 
 Meadowcroft Bros., northwest corner Dearborn and Washing 
 ton streets. 
 
 Municipal InvesUnent Compatiy, 164 Dearborn Street. 
 
 Niehoff, C. L. &" Co., 49 La Salle Street. 
 
 Peterson df Bay, corner Randolph and La Salle streets. 
 
 Richard, C. B. 6^ Co., 62 South Clark Street. 
 
 Schaffner, H. ^ Co , 100 and 102 Washington Street. 
 
 Silverman, L., 93 and 95 Dearborn Street. 
 
 Wasjuansdorff 6^ Heinemann, 145 and 147 Randolph Street. 
 
 
 
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 Boyce Building, 1 12-1 14 Dearborn Street. 
 
ASHLAND BLOCK, CORNER OF CLARK AND RANDOLPH STREETS. 
 
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IX. 
 THE LAKE, RIVER, AND HARBOR, 
 
 Lake Michigan, the second j:i size of the five great fresh-water 
 lakes, and the only one lying wholly within the United States, is 
 320 miles long, 70 miles in mean breadth, and 1,000 feet in mean 
 depth. It is 578 feet above sea-level, and has been found by careful 
 and accurate observation to have a lunar tidal wave of three inches. 
 
 With an area of 22,000 square miles. Lake Michigan is the 
 third largest body of fresh water on the face of the globe. Its 
 principal harbors are Chicago, Milwaukee, and Grand Haven. 
 With the lower lakes and the St. Lawrence River, it forms a 
 natural outlet for one of the richest grain-growing regions in the 
 world. 
 
 The course from Chicago to Lake Huron is 330 miles, and 
 from the World's Fair City to Liverpool it is but 4,500 miles, over 
 one-half of which is in inland waters, and comparatively smooth 
 sailing. The ports of the great lakes are novel and picturesque 
 features, their harbors differing from those of maritime cities, 
 being often open roadsteads. Islands and land locked bays are 
 the exception rather than the rule, while in their place long 
 breakwaters, with costly and extensive piers, protect shipping and 
 cargoes from sudden tempest and severe storm. 
 
 Nor is Chicago different from the rule of the lake ports. 
 Situated at the mouth of the river, the port of Chicago is con- 
 structed of, and protected by, a series of piers and sheltering 
 breakwaters constructed by the Federal Government at very heavy 
 expense. 
 
 The entrance to the river, as viewed from the lake, is a weird, 
 varied scene, composed, as it is, of a vast conglomeration of 
 timber yards, immense elevators, huge steamships, long lines of 
 
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 freight wagons, and stacks of lumber, with a dusky background 
 of mammoth buildings and attendant smoke nuisance. The 
 water, covered with puffing, whistling tugboats, great four-masters, 
 and huge propellers, is murky, troubled, and turgid. At nightfall 
 the confusion is intensified by the colored lights and hoarse steam- 
 whistles of departing steamers. 
 
 The Harbor. — The Government harbor, when completed, 
 will include a sheltered area i6 feet in depth, covering 270 acres, 
 with communicating slips along the lake front covering 185 acres; 
 making a total of 455 acres; this in addition to the river, with 
 which the outer harbor communicates. There is, also, an exterior 
 breakwater, one-third of a mile north of the end of the north pier, 
 so situated as to protect vessels entering the mouth of the river. 
 The length of this outer breakwater will be 5,436 feet, of which 
 over 4,000 feet have been completed. The north pier, measuring 
 from the outer end of the Michigan Street slip, is 1,600 feet long, 
 and extends 600 feet beyond the easterly breakwater, which latter, 
 beginning at the outer end of the south pier, extends directly 
 south 4,060 feet, and is distant 3,300 feet from the present shore 
 line south of Monroe Street. A channel, 800 feet wide, intervenes 
 between this and the north end of the southerly breakwater. This 
 latter breakwater continues for a short distance due south, then 
 turns at an angle of thirty degrees, and extends in a southwesterly 
 direction to within about 1,550 feet of the present shore line, and 
 500 feet from the dock line. This breakwater is 3,950 feet in 
 length. There is a lighthouse on the shore end, and a beacon light 
 on the lake end of the north pier, and a beacon-light on the south 
 end of the easterly breakwater. The Life Saving Station is at the 
 lake end of the northernmost railroad wharf, directly adjoining 
 the south pier. Boats run from the lake shore opposite Van Buren 
 Street to the eastern breakwater during the summer months. 
 
 Divided by its river into three sections, Chicago has a river 
 frontage of 58 miles, 22^ of which are navigable, a length greater 
 than the whole frontage of the port of Liverpool. 
 
 Three hundred and thirty-nine vessels of 71,260 tons aggre- 
 gate burden, and of a total value of $3,088,350, are owned and 
 registered in the port of Chicago. In this connection it only 
 remains to notice the shipping returns: In 1890, 21,054 vessels, 
 
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 aggregating 10,288,688 tons, entered or left for the Great Lakes, a 
 daily average of 57 vessels; in 1891, the arrivals were 10,354 
 coasting vessels and 153 vessels engaged in foreign trade, a total 
 of 10,507, with a tonnage of 5,138,253. The clearances num- 
 bered 10,235 coasting vessels and 312 vessels engaged in foreign 
 trade, .a total of 10,547, with an aggregate tonnage of 5,150,615. 
 In the month of August the arrivals averaged 56 per day, and the 
 clearances 56. The duties collected on foreign imports amounted 
 to $5,182,476. 
 
 The lake is patrolled by one steamship of the U. S. Navy, an- 
 tique in type, and valuable more a ; a surveying vessel than any- 
 thing else. This single vessel is often at anchor off Chicago, and 
 can be inspected by visitors by boat from the foot of Van Buren 
 Street. 
 
 The ocean steamship lines have the following agencies in the 
 city: 
 
 Allan — State Line, 112 La Salle Street. 
 
 American, 88 La Salle Street. 
 
 Anchor, 70 La Salle Street. 
 
 Compagnie General Transatlaniique, 166 Randolph Street. 
 
 Cunard, 131 Randolph Street. 
 
 Dominion, 74 La Salle Street. 
 
 Hamburg- A ?nerican, 125 La Salle and 32, 2 Sherman streets. 
 
 Inman, 32 Clark Street. 
 
 Netherland-Amcrican , 86 La Salle Street. 
 
 North German Lloyd, 80 and 82 Fifth Avenue. 
 
 Red Star, 145 Randolph Street. 
 
 White Star, 54 Clark Street. 
 
 Lake Transportation. — The offices of the Goodrich Line 
 are at the foot of Michigan Avenue, those of the Graham & 
 Morton Company being at the dock at the foot of Wabash Avenue. 
 
 Within the city limits (and irrespective of ornamental waters in 
 the parks) there are three lakes, with an aggregate area of about 
 4,095.6 acres, made up as follows: Calumet Lake, 3,122 acres; 
 Llyde Lake, 330.8 acres, and that portion of Wo'.f I>ake lying 
 within the city limits, 624.8 acres; Calumet and W^olf lakes being 
 navigable. 
 
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X. 
 
 A RAMBLE AT NIGHT. 
 
 A celebrated European philanthropist, who recently visiteO 
 Chicago, is recorded as saying that the prevalent dirt and flagrant 
 vice there visible exceeded everything in London, but that he had 
 seen scarce any evidence of actual want. 
 
 Chicago of a night-time is another city to Chicago by day. 
 The business and family portion of the community being mainly 
 housed in comparative comfort or superlative splendor in the out- 
 skirts, it is to the pleasure-seekers, and, alas! in certain less repu- 
 table quarters, to their parasites, that our streets are given over oi 
 an evening. In the principal streets and avenues the merry theater- 
 goers may be seen trooping to the particular shrine of Thespis 
 that they propose to favor, and beaming on all alike with their 
 impartial and alluring rays stand the numerous beacon-lights oi 
 civilization, the bar-rooms. 
 
 A Nociurnal Ramble. 
 
 Slumming. — One of the diversions in London used to be to 
 make up a party, secure the services of an experienced ponce 
 officer — usually a detective — and visit the region of poverty and 
 crime of the East End. That miserable precinct is called the 
 " slums," and hence the verb. But Chicago has little to show, as 
 yet, which resembles the narrow and intricate streets, the blind 
 alleys, hidden courtyards, and murder-inviting places along the 
 lower Thames and in Whitechapel. "Slumming," therefore, in 
 the London sense of the word, can not be satisfactorily carried out 
 here, though it is certainly possible to hire a guide at some of our 
 many private detective agencies, and to pay him co show you the 
 
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A RAMBLE AT NIGHT. 105 
 
 darker parts of the town at midnight. But the chances are, un- 
 less you are hunting for an opportunity to join in with some devil- 
 try which must hide away from the light and the law, that he will 
 reveal to you little, if anything, more than you can see for yourself 
 any night. As for danger — pooh! Leave at home your silk hat, 
 diamond studs, and kid gloves, and your watch too, if it is a val- 
 uable one; don't exhibit a roll of bills when you pay for your occa- 
 sional glass of beer or cigar; don't be too inquisitive, and don't 
 allow yourself to be enticed into any back-yards or dark doorways, 
 nor up or down any stairways, by man or woman. Above all, 
 keep quite sober, so clear-headed that you can not only take care 
 of yourself, but that you could closely observe and subsequently 
 identify any person who tried to do you harm. That ability is 
 what criminals fear more than anything else; and a sober man, of 
 ordinary appearance and tact, can go anywhere on the streets of 
 Chicago (save, perhaps, certain remote parts of the water-front or 
 railroad yards which nobody has a call to visit), at any hour of the 
 night, without worrying himself a particle as to his safety. 
 
 Some suggestions as to a good route for a nocturnal ramble, and 
 the sort of things a person may expect to see, may be useful. If 
 you are in search of evil, in order to take part in it, don't look 
 here for guidance. This book merely proposes to give some hints 
 as to how the dark, crowded, hard-working, and sometimes criminal 
 portions of the city look at night. 
 
 Starting, let us say, from the City Hall about 8 P. M. of any 
 ordinary evening, the sight-seer (who will do well to hire the services 
 of a stout private detective as a guide) may take his way along 
 South Clark Street to observe the haunt of color and habitat of 
 Chinamen. 
 
 Huge "buck niggers " adorn the respective gin-mill doors, 
 "oiled and curled (like) Assyrian bulls," and absolutely guiltless 
 of any higher mission in life than "playing de races" or "shoot- 
 ing craps." Beware of any altercation with these elegant samples 
 of the education, emancipation, and civilization of the negro, as 
 the gentlemen in question, whose purple and fine linen are fre- 
 quently provided for by the moral obliquity of an ebony Venus, 
 are bullies pure and simple, and carry concealed, if not a revolver, 
 certainly a razor. They are apt to exhibit a supreme contempt for 
 
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 ' 'low white trash," and to demonstrate their distaste in a rather forci- 
 ble method. South Clark Street, Custom House Place, and the 
 locality between Van Buren and Twelfth streets have been well 
 described as the " Bad Lands " of Chicago. Here and in similar 
 localities, particularly Dearborn Street farther south, near Twen- 
 tieth, and on the West Side, the Cyprian Venus is the only recog- 
 nized deity, and the local Lais her bedraggled or bejeweled 
 priestess. The only difference noticeable in the personality of 
 the priestess is in the vestments; as Pope's pregnant lines so well 
 express it: 
 
 "One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade." 
 
 Life on the Levee. — Walking on the artificial elevation of 
 the Twelfth Street viaduct, one is at the window ledges of second 
 stories and looks into the upper rooms of the denizens of a quarter 
 never for a moment at rest. The lower rooms are devoted to the 
 sale of liquor, and to inhabitants upon whom society perpetually 
 frowns. A narrow way divides the fronts of the houses from the 
 wall of the viaduct, and along this pavement, with open doors of 
 brothels and liquor stores on the one hand and an impassable barrier 
 on the other, the straggler has small chance of escape. There is 
 a dim gas-lamp here and there along the way, though its light 
 penetrates but weakly in the darkness of the cellar-like place. 
 There are plush curtains before the windows and the doors are 
 glazed. During the hours of daylight the place is still enough, 
 but at night the rooms are lighted up with a glaring brilliancy, 
 much better than the public walk outside, and the noise of musical 
 instruments salutes one continually. 
 
 Stories of the viaduct and that section of Clark Street generally 
 known as "the levee" are too numerous to relate. Scarcely a 
 night of the world but some man who thinks he knows enough to 
 take care of himself wherever he may happen to be meets rude 
 awakening on the levee. It is a jungle which the wise man with 
 a regard for his " roll" keeps away from; but it must be added 
 that it is also a jungle in the sense that it never goes out after its 
 man. If you fall among thieves in that locality, it is because you 
 have sought them. They are "at home " twenty-four hours of 
 the day, but they never go off on raids and bring victims home 
 from afar. " Bad Lands," " Niggertown," " Biler Avenue," or 
 " Little Hell," as the locality has been variously termed; it is the 
 great wallowing ground of the three pet and particular vices 
 of Chicago, gambling, drinking, and licentiousness, thrust, as all 
 three are, to the notice of passengers by open, flaunting, and patent 
 sign. 
 
 In his message to the Council, in i8gi. Mayor Washburne 
 reviewed the matter as follows: "The suppression of public 
 
A RAMBLE AT NIGHT. 107 
 
 gambling in a great metropolis and cosmopolitan city like Chicago 
 is a matter easier undertaken than accomplished. Until the three 
 great inherited and inborn passions of man — licentiousness, 
 gambling, and intoxication — have been eradicated, by education or 
 birth, no statute laws can entirely suppress the social evil, gambling, 
 and intemperance. IVkcn our hypocrites cease to extol their own 
 virtues in the synagogues, and cease to foster vice in secret by leas- 
 ing to prostitutes, gamblers, and law-breaking saloonkeepers for the 
 scike of the increased revenues received thereby, then, and then only, 
 can we hope to view the millenium; until then we can no more 
 turn back the tide of man' s passion by laws than could Canute turn 
 back the advancing ocean by his command.^' 
 
 It is vi^ell to advise any foolish visitor, who may be tempted to 
 encourage vice even by a passive presence, that the police and the 
 patrol wagon, when raiding the "lair of the tiger" or other die- 
 reputable resorts, invariably carry away "the flies" as well as 
 " the spiders." A word to the wise is sufficient; for the foolish an 
 exemplary fine will serve. There are some people who prefer 
 Dame Experience's costly school for every lesson. 
 
 The Chinese quarter is essentially Clark Street south of Van 
 Buren Street. The wonderful signs of the Celestial, almost inva- 
 riably of white lettering on a red painted board, stare one out of 
 countenance from every other doorway. Celestials, in the unvarying 
 costume of their country, haunt the sidewalks, lounging much in 
 the fashion of their occidental neighbors, but with their taper 
 hands concealed in the flowing sleeves or under the equally flowing 
 skirts of their wonderful coats. They come up the steep narrow 
 stairs from the basements that carry — for revenue only' — the sign 
 of a laundryman, but which are plainly the habitat of the national 
 bung-loo, or the equally exhaustive pastime oi fan-tan. They are 
 weary-eyed and silent, passing their countrymen without the 
 faintest vestige of recognition, and disappearing in the quaint tea 
 stores or tobacco stalls of the heathen. 
 
 Chinese Restaurants, — A visitor desirous of curious fare 
 and cuisine may, with advantage, call at a Chinese restaurant. 
 That kept by Sam Moy and Hip Lung, at No. 319 Clark Street, is 
 a fair sample. The proprietors have spent a large sum of money 
 in fitting up the place, expecting to tickle the Chinese palate with 
 a variety of delicacies. A large gilded sign hangs in front of the 
 building bearing the words ' ' Bon Hong Lou " in Chinese char- 
 acters, which in English signifies " First-class Restaurant." 
 
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 The building has been newly painted, with decorations in gilt. 
 In the restaurant proper the floors are highly polished, the tables 
 loaded with rare Chinese dishes, and at each cover is a pair of valua- 
 ble ivory chop-sticks. From the center of the ceiling hangs a large 
 chandelier, -with cut-glass trimmings. In the corners hang pretty 
 figured Chinese lanterns, and in the front part of the room stands 
 a large clock in a hardwood case. Just off the main room is a 
 smaller room elaborately furnished, which is reserved, the proprie- 
 tor says, for the most distinguished guests. 
 
 Six Celestial cooks are hard at work preparing a inettu for the 
 banquet. It includes such dishes as ki-an-ko, Chinese sponge-cake; 
 chin-gow, birds' nest soup; tong-ki and tong-up, boneless chicken 
 and duck; and la-jui, shrimp, ham from imported Chinese wild 
 hog, kingfish head, and pickled bamboo roots. 
 
 An Opium Joint. — Opium smoking-rooms, popularly called 
 " joints," are hidden away in Clark Street, but it is dangerous to 
 visit them, as the police are likely to raid them at any moment, 
 and the consequences to every one found there are exceedingly un- 
 pleasant. The price of "hitting the pipe" is $i. The habit 
 has spread outside the Chinese quarter, and now ' ' joints " 
 exist uptown, whose patrons are wholly white men and women, 
 who yield themselves to the pipe without any restraint of dignity 
 or decency. 
 
 The Lodging-house Section. — Clark Street drifts south 
 through blocks of unseemly buildings and past a succession of 
 houses, of a by no means doubtful repute; past little sheds of 
 stores, places where lunches are sold at night and where kindlings 
 are displayed by day, till one reaches the corner of Polk, where the 
 old gray church of St. Peter breaks the monotony of the unpre- 
 sentable. In time past one of the things that emphasized the 
 feverish scenes of darkness was the chime of St. Peter's bell as 
 dawn emerged from the east. The old church is devoted to the 
 German persuasion, and is by no means so well attended now as it 
 has been in the past, for this is not the country of the Teuton. 
 
 This section of the city is the lodging-house part of the town. 
 There is no neighborhood in the city, perhaps, so prolific of voters 
 as is South Clark Street. The place is lined, among other things, 
 with an array of " hotels " at which lodging can be had all the way 
 
A RAMBLE AT NIGHT. 109 
 
 from 50 cents to $2 a week. In the basement places, transient 
 rates seldom reach above the trivial sum of 10 cents for a bed, and 
 the privilege to sleep as long as one likes in the morning. There 
 are some good places, where the better class of workingmen with- 
 out families maintain a sort of a home. 
 
 Little Italy. — The Italian population of Chicago numbers 
 about 10,000, and is mainly settled in " The Dive," as the houses 
 adjoining the Twelfth Street viaduct are called. Giacomo and 
 Guiseppe, as usual, vend peanuts and bananas, or attend to the 
 blacking of their fellow-citizens' boots. 
 
 A colony of Arabs may be found round about 406 South Clark 
 Street, while the West Side consists largely of Poles and Hun- 
 garians, with the usual sweaters' shops; the wholesale clothing 
 business of Chicago being about $20,000,000 per annum. 
 
 In *' Judea." — The poor Jews' quarter may be found at the 
 western end of the Twelfth Street bridge and south of the Italian 
 settlement. 
 
 Socialists and Anarchists. — These gentry, who received 
 such a salutary lesson in the execution of their leaders, may be 
 found in some of the beer halls of the West Side — beer, anarchy, 
 and socialism being seemingly inseparable companions. Long- 
 haired, of alien birth, entirely innocent of honest work or any kind 
 of bathing, they ' ' haunt low places and herd with the ignorant, 
 possessing just enough knowledge to be mischievous." They met 
 their Waterloo in the Haymarket Square on that memorable 4th 
 of May. 1886. Now, other than for occasional fatuous and fire- 
 brand utteiances, the public would be entirely ignorant of their 
 existence. To use a now celebrated phrase, they seem to have 
 fallen (perhaps fortunately for their fraternity) "into a state of 
 innocuous desuetude." 
 
 The Finns. — Almost lost in the population of Chicago, partly 
 because of their quiet and virtuous ways of living, are the Finns, 
 who number about 400. Attention has recently been drawn to this 
 little colony because of its efforts to establish a church in which 
 visiting Finlanders may worship during the W^orld's Fair. The 
 faith of these people is the Lutheran. Although the sum needed 
 is $2,000, they have been unable to raise more than $700. They 
 now gather every Sunday in a hall, where they are addressed by 
 
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 professors and students of the Lutheran Seminary of Lake View. 
 None of the Chicago Finns is a man of wealth, but all of them 
 earn an honest living and keep the peace. Few of them speak 
 English. No greater slight can be put on the Finn than to con" 
 found him with a Laplander, a mistake often made. An investiga- 
 tion fails to show that there is a single Laplander living in Chicago. 
 
 Wine, Women, and Song. — A typical Concert Hall, Engel's 
 Pavilion, can be found on North Clark Street, near Division Street 
 (reached by North Clark Street cable car), where for the sum of 25 
 cents or so the visitor can hear comic songs amid libations and 
 smoke. 
 
 It is the nearest approach to the British music hall that the city 
 boasts of, and is well patronized. 
 
 Dance Halls. — By city ordinance, public dance halls where 
 intoxicating liquor and theatrical performances take place are for- 
 bidden within an area embracing the heart of Chicago; as a result, 
 they are to be found in the outskirts. A good sample of this par- 
 ticular class of amusement may be seen in full blast on Saturday 
 or Sunday evenings at Barlow's Pavilion, State Street and Archer 
 Avenue. 
 
 Chicago's Big Army of Night Workers. 
 
 A great and interesting throng that labor while others sleep 
 are to be found by standing at Clark and Madison streets after 
 midnight. You have no idea of the number of persons who look 
 upon midnight as the world does upon noon. It is a vast army 
 that toil while others sleep, and it keeps busy a great number of 
 attendants. 
 
 For the benefit of a great number of night workers, dozens of 
 stores are kept open nights — restaurants, drug stores, and saloons. 
 Of course these are not patronized exclusively by the all-night 
 workers. They catch the transient trade of that big community 
 that loves to roam about when other folks are in bed. 
 
 It is a queer community — this night crowd. First comes the 
 actor, fresh from his night's labor. He may deserve to be classed 
 with the night worker, though he disappears at i or 2 o'clock. 
 The men of the boards are followed by the men of the tables — the 
 waiters of the big downtown restaurants, which close between 
 
A RAMBLE AT NIGHT. iii 
 
 12 and I. By the time these are well on their way home come the 
 first phalanx of the newspaper brigade — the " day" reporters for 
 the morning papers. These linger a little and give way to the 
 first batch of printers. The printers straggle along all through 
 the night, for they get off in gangs, increasing as the night 
 advances. With them, too, comes a portion of the night editorial 
 force — the men who have remained after the departure of the 
 reporters, to edit the work of the latter. 
 
 These all gather by ones and twos until by 4 o'clock, when 
 the night reporters cease their labors — then the throng of printers, 
 of editors, of reporters is a great one. They are lovers of gossip 
 and good-fellowship, and gather in the various downtown resorts 
 to break bread or sip a social glass previous to a tedious journey 
 in a horse-car. These cars, by the way, are run for the benefit of 
 the many night workers. 
 
 Then comes the crowd of night ramblers — men-about-town, 
 gamblers, thugs, drunks, and people who attend dances. All 
 these furnish a living to the fruit venders, "hot tomales," and 
 " red-hot " men, etc., as well as the storekeeper. 
 
 The vast multitude of early risers — the dinner-pail brigade — 
 are hurrjdng to their places of daily labor when the last of the 
 night workers leave for home. These are the newspaper office 
 stereotypers and pressmen, the bakers, the telephone girls, and 
 those who work in the all night stores. 
 
 And now across the placid surface of Michigan's bosom old 
 Father Sol is asserting himself. " The gray dawn is awaking," 
 banishing sleep from many a weary couch, and bringing toil to 
 this great hive of human industry. We have been in darkest 
 Chicago, and have seen how " the other half " lives ("very much 
 as it pleases," the cynic will say). A bath and a breakfast will 
 now be in order, followed by a quiet rest in bed. 
 
XI. 
 
 SUNDAY AND RELIGIOUS WORK 
 IN CHICAGO. 
 
 Preaching may be heard in Chicago according to the dictates 
 of one's own taste. The means and principal places of worship 
 will be described below; in addition to them, irregular services 
 may be found advertised in the newspapers, where, also, the hours 
 of meeting and subjects of the next day's sermons are announced 
 for many of the leading churches. Should the inclination of the 
 reader lead him to go elsewhere than to church, he will find his range 
 of indoor sight-seeing not necessarily restricted, since many of the 
 museums, art galleries, or libraries are open on Sunday. Many of 
 the theaters, properly speaking, give Sunday performances; occa- 
 sionally some semi-sacred or benevolent entertainment is shown in 
 the evening. The Casino, the various panoramas, and two or 
 three other exhibitions of that sort are open. The trains of the 
 elevated road, and horse-cars, and cable- cars run as on week days — 
 if anything, doing a larger business. Most, if not all, of the excur- 
 sion boats, which in summer ply between Chicago and the lakeside 
 resorts, make their ordinary trips, and these places are more 
 crowded upon this than upon any other day of the week. It is a 
 fact, however, that the general tone of the throng which takes its 
 outing on Sunday is inferior to that going upon the lake or to 
 other pleasure resorts during the week. All places for the sale of 
 liquor are supposed to be closed by law (though not in fact, if they 
 have a back door) during the whole Sunday twenty-four hours, 
 and business generally is suspended; but restaurants (except in 
 the heart of Chicago), tobacconists' stores, confectioneries, and 
 kindred establishments keep open doors. Sunday editions are 
 
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RELIGIOUS WORK IN CHICAGO. 113 
 
 published by all the morning newspapers printed in English, and 
 there are several weeklies that appear on this day, but no evening 
 paper is printed. 
 
 Churches. 
 
 " The gentle, earnest, and courageous Father Jacques Mar- 
 quette was the first priest appointed to the Illinois Mission," says 
 a recent writer. This kindly priest, dying in 1675, was succeeded 
 by Father Claude Allouez. Other priests, Jesuits and Recollets, 
 followed these. 
 
 No churches were founded in Chicago until 1833, when there 
 followed each other, in quick succession, a Roman Catholic, a 
 Presbyterian, and a Baptist church. The first of these, wSt. Mary's 
 Church, dates from the appointment of Father John Irenasus St. 
 Cyr to the pastorate of Chicago, on April 17, 1833. He arrived 
 from vSt. Louis on May ist, and on the following Sunday, May 5th, 
 celebrated mass in a little 12x12 foot log cabin belonging to Mark 
 Beaubien. 
 
 Religious services had been held before this, however, by mem- 
 bers of the Methodist Episcopal church, residing at Fort Dear- 
 born, in the winter of 1831-32. 
 
 The First Presbyterian Church quickly followed. It was founded 
 on June 26, 1833, by the Rev. Jeremiah Porter. He preached his 
 first sermon in the carpenter shop of the fort, on Sunday, May 
 19th, two weeks after Father St. Cyr's first sermon; and on 
 Wednesday, June 26th, he organized a church with twenty-six mem- 
 bers, seventeen of them being members of the garrison. This 
 congregation was the first to erect a church building, which they 
 did in 1833. The Baptists organized a church the same year, and 
 were followed by the Episcopalians in 1834. It was not until 
 185 1 that the Congregationalists obtained a footing in the young 
 settlement. 
 
 The present number of societies, among which almost all 
 denominations of Christians are represented, is about 513, nearly 
 all of them worshiping in their own edifices. 
 
 The most noteworthy buildings are the two Roman Catholic 
 Churches of the Holy Name and the Holy Family; the former, 
 the Cathedral church of the Catholic diocese, an ornate Gothic 
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114 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 structure, at the corner of North State and Superior streets, and 
 the latter, popularly known as the Jesuit church, an edifice the 
 interior of which is extremely rich and beautiful, at the corner of 
 May and West Twelfth streets, adjoining St. Ignatius College. 
 Among other fine churches are the Cathedral of SS. Peter and 
 Paul, St. James, Grace, and Trinity (Episcopal); Immanuel (Bap- 
 tist); Second Presbyterian; Plymouth and New England (Congre- 
 gational); St. Paul's (Universalist); Centenary (Methodist); Unity 
 and the Church of the Messiah (Unitarian). 
 
 Among the clergy of the city are some of the most distinguished 
 ornaments of the American pulpit. 
 
 Every denomination of Christians is represented in Chicago, 
 and a few of outspoken paganism. There are said to be over 500 
 different church buildings in the city, varying in seating capacity 
 from 200 to 2,000, and with a gross total Sunday attendance of 
 120,000 persons. All depend on their regular congregations, but 
 strangers are welcome at all times, and will be cheerfully provided 
 with seats so long as there are any vacant. Visitors entering a 
 church should make their way within the auditorium, and will find 
 a little curtained space behind the pews where they may wait com- 
 fortably until shown to seats. Services in the Protestant churches 
 begin in the morning generally at 10.30, in the afternoon at 3.30, 
 and in the evening at 7.30. The Roman Catholic churches cele- 
 brate high mass and vespers at about the same hours. 
 
 The following list of churches, with hours of service and pas- 
 tors, may be useful; any alteration is published in the newspapers 
 every Sunday morning. 
 
 Baptist. — Fourth C/nij'ch, Ashland Boulevard and Monroe 
 Street. Services at 10.30 a. m. and 7.45 p. m. Sunday-school 
 at 12.15 P- M. 
 
 Western Avemie, Western and Warren avenues. Pastor, Rev. 
 Dr. C. Perren. 
 
 First Chtirch, South Park Avenue and Thirty-first Street. 
 Rev. P. S. Henson, D. D., pastor. 
 
 Second Church, Morgan and Monroe streets. 
 
 La Salle Avenue, near Division Street. Rev. H. O. Rowlands, 
 D. D., pastor. 
 
 Memorial Church, Oakwood Boulevard, near Cottage Grove 
 Avenue. Pastor, Rev, L. A. Crandall, D. D. 
 
 Christian. — Central Church of Chnst, Indiana Avenue and 
 Th.rty-seventh Street. Prof. W. F. Black, pastor. 
 
RELIGIOUS WORK IN CHICAGO. 115 
 
 West Side Church, 928 West Madison. J. W. Allen, pastor. 
 Services at 10.30 A. M. and 7.30 p. m, 
 
 Englewood Church of Christ, Dickey, south of Sixty-fourth 
 Street. N. S. Haynes, pastor. Services at 10.30 a. m. and 
 7 45 P. M. 
 
 Church of Christ, Oakley Avenue and Jackson Street. Serv- 
 ices, II A. M. and 7.45 P. M. 
 
 North Side Church, Sheffield and Montana avenues. Services 
 at II A. M. and 7.30 P. M. 
 
 Garfield Park Church of Christ, Monroe and Francisco 
 streets, J. W. Ingram, pastor. Services at 10.30 A. m. and 8 
 p. M. Sunday-school at 9.30 A. m. 
 
 Elsmere Church, 15 Ballou Street, near North Avenue. Serv- 
 ices at 10.30 A. M. 
 
 The Colored Chut'ch of Christ, 2819 Dearborn Street. Services 
 at II A. M. and 7.45 P. m. 
 
 Root Street Mission, Lake Hall, near Wentworth Avenue. 
 Sunday-school at 2.30 p. m. 
 
 Ravenszvood Chuich, corner of Wilson Avenue and West 
 Ravenswood Park, Royal League Hall. Sunday-school at 3 p. m. 
 Preaching at 4 P. M. 
 
 Rosalie Mission, Rosalie Hall, Fifty-seventh Street and Rosalie 
 Court. Preaching at 4 p. M. 
 
 CongregationaL — Bethany Church, Lincoln and West Su- 
 perior streets. Services at 10.30 A. m. 
 
 Covenant Church, Polk Street and Claremont Avenue. 
 
 Tabernacle Church, West Indiana and Morgan streets. 
 
 Lincoln Park Church, Garfield Avenue and Mohawk Street. 
 Rev. David Beaton, pastor. 
 
 Plymoi'th Church, Michigan Avenue, between Twenty- fifth 
 and Twenty-sixth streets. 
 
 Pilgrim Church, Harvard and Sixty-fourth stieets. Rev. 
 Albert L. Smalley, pastor. 
 
 Episcopal. — Cathedral SS. Peter and Paul, Washington 
 Boulevard and Peoria Street. 
 
 Church of the Transfgziration, Forty-third Street, near Cot- 
 tage Grove Avenue. Rev. Dr. Delafield, pastor. 
 
 Church of the Epiphany, Ashland Boulevard and Adams Street. 
 Rev. T. N. Morrison, rector. Morning service at 10.30 A, m. 
 
 All Saints Church, 757 North Clark Street. Rev. Montgom- 
 ery H. Throop, Jr., rector. Holy Eucharist at 8 A. M. Sunday- 
 school at 9.40 A. M. Morning prayer, with sermon, at 10.45 a. m. 
 
 Trinity Church, Twenty-sixth Street and Michigan Avenue. 
 
 St. Peter's Church, 1737 Belmont Avenue, near Evanston 
 Avenue. Rev. Samuel C. Edsall, rector. 
 
 St. Albans Church, Prairie Avenue, near Forty-fourth Street. 
 Rev. Geo. W. Knapp, rector. Services at 10.45 a. m, and 8 
 P. M. 
 
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 Reformed Episcopal. — St. Paul's Church, Adams Street 
 and Winchester Avenue. 
 
 Lutheran. — Grace English, Belden Avenue and Larrabee 
 Street. Rev. L. M. Heilman, pastor. Services at 10.45 ^^- ^'^• 
 and 7.45 P. M. 
 
 Methodist. — Centenary Church, Monroe Street, near Morgan. 
 H. W. Bolton, pastor. 
 
 Ravenstvood Church, Commercial Street and Sunnyside Avenue. 
 Rev. J. P. Brushingham, pastor. Services at 10.30 a. m. and 
 7.45 P. M. 
 
 Pattlina Street Chtirch, Thirty-third Court. Rev. Dr. 
 Leach, pastor. 
 
 Grace Church, La Salle Avenue and Locust Street. Rev. R. 
 S, Martin, pastor. 
 
 First Church, 108 Washington Street. William Fawcett, pastor. 
 
 Wicker Park Church, Robey Street and Evergreen Avenue. 
 Pastor, Rev. M. W. Satterfield. 
 
 Wabash Ave^iue Church, Wabash Avenue and Fourteenth 
 Street. Rev. O. E. Murray, pastor. 
 
 Simpson Church, Englewood Avenue, near Wentworth Avenue. 
 Pastor, Rev. W. R. Goodwin. 
 
 Wesley Church, North Halsted Street, near Webster Avenue. 
 Pastor, Rev. N. H. Axtell. 
 
 Hyde Park Chtirch, Fifty-fourth Street and Washington 
 Avenue. Wilbur F. Atchison, pastor. 
 
 Oakland Church, Oakland Boulevard and Langley Avenue. 
 Pastor, Rev. Dr. P. H. Swift. 
 
 Western Avenue Church, Western Avenue and Monroe Street. 
 Rev. W. A. Phillips, pastor. 
 
 Presbyterian. — Chtirch of the Covenant, Belden Avenue and 
 North Halsted Street. Morning service at 10.30. 
 
 Fifth Church, Indiana Avenue and Thirtieth Street. 
 
 Railroad Chapel, Dearborn Street, between Thirty-eighth and 
 Thirty-ninth streets. 
 
 Forty- first Street Chtirch, Grand Boulevard and Forty- first 
 Street. Rev. Thomas C. Hall, pastor. Preaching at 10.30 A. M. 
 and 7.45 P. M. 
 
 Third Chtirch, Indiana Avenue and Twenty-first Street. 
 
 Spiritualist. — The Sotithwest Spiritualist Society, Fashing's 
 Hall, 3012 Archer Avenue. 
 
 Spiritualist Meetings, at National Hall, 681 West Lake Street. 
 
 First Sotith Side Society meets at 77 Thirty-first Street. 
 
 Swedenborgian. — Ematitiel Church, 434 Carroll Avenue, 
 between Sheldon and Ada streets. Rev. N. D. Pendleton, pastor. 
 
 Universalist. — St. Pauls Church, Prairie Avenue, corner of 
 Thirtieth Street. Services at 10.45 a. m. 
 
 Ryder Chapel, Woodlawn, Sixty-fourth Street and Sheridan 
 Avenue. 
 
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 Ryder Chapel, Woodlawn, Sixty-fourth Street and Sheridan 
 Avenue. 
 
 Church of the Redeemer, Warren Avenue and Robey Street. 
 
 Unitarian. — All Souls Church, Oakwood Boulevard and 
 Langley Avenue. 
 
 Miscellaneous. — The Church of Christ, Scientist, hold 
 services in the new Kimball Hall, 243 Wabash Avenue, near 
 Jackson Street, Sunday, at 10.45 A. m. 
 
 The Christian Congregation^ Washington Hall, 66-70 Adams 
 Street. 
 
 French Gospel Mission Services, 210 South Halsted Street. 
 Preaching at 10.30 A. M. and 7.30 P. M. Rev. N. W. Deveneau, 
 pastor. 
 
 The Workers' Church, 3037 Butler Street. Morning service 
 at 10.30, in charge of George S. Steere; in the evening at 8. 
 
 Church of Christ, Athenaeum Hall, 26 East Van Buren Street. 
 Rev. F. S. Van Eps, pastor. Services every Sunday morning at 
 10.45. 
 
 Religious Missions and Aid Societies. 
 
 A great number of missionary and religious societies, both 
 unsectarian and denominational, have their headquarters in this 
 city. Some of these are national in character; others purely local. 
 For a full list consult the City Directory. 
 
 r. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. 
 
 The Young Men's Christian Association in Chicago is in 
 
 a flourishing condition, and will own a large and handsome build- 
 ing, which, costing, with the land, $1,400,000, is to stand at La 
 Salle Street, between Madison and Monroe streets. 
 
 The Young Women's Christian Association occupies 
 Room 39, 184 Dearborn Street, and devotes itself to helping in 
 every way the young workingwomen of the city. Ladies visiting 
 the city are welcome at the rooms. 
 
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XII. 
 
 EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. 
 
 It is greatly to the credit of Chicago, the distinguishing char- 
 acteristic of which has been said to be the pursuit of wealth with 
 an energy and a singleness of purpose almost unexampled, to have 
 made the splendid provision it has for the education of the young. 
 Two hundred and fifty-three public, primary, grammar, and high 
 schools; fifteen colleges of law, medicine, and theology; half-a- 
 dozen academies of art and science, and two universities are not 
 the marks of a community wholly given up to the acquisition of 
 wealth. 
 
 The foundations of this magnificent educational system are 
 laid in the public schools of the city, which, controlled by a board 
 of education consisting of fifteen members, enjoying the oversight 
 of an active and scholarly superintendent, and conducted by a 
 staff of devoted teachers, are maintained in the highest state of 
 efficiency. During the year . 891 the number of enrolled pupils 
 was 152,483. The school buildings number 253, which were val- 
 ued, with their equipment, at $9,967,513, and were the property of 
 the city. The total expenditure of the educational department for 
 the year 1891-92 was $4,089,814, or $26.82 per pupil. There. has 
 been an increase, during the last five years, of 126 schools; 
 $6,282,713 in the value of the equipment, and $2,965,298 in the 
 expenditure. Visitors interested in the work of education are 
 always courteously received at the public schools. 
 
 The Union College of Law, 80 and 82 Dearborn Street, is 
 governed by a board of management representing the Northwest- 
 ern University, with the government of which it is very intimately 
 related. The course of study extends over two years, the fees, 
 
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 payable in advance, being $75 per year. The college diploma 
 admits to the bar of Illinois, provided the student has taken the 
 full course of two years. The students number about one hundred 
 and thirty. 
 
 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons, cor. West Harrison and Honore Streets. 
 
 The medical colleges are seven in number. Several of them, 
 notably the College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Rush 
 Medical College (both adjoining Cook County Hospital), are 
 handsome and commodious buildings. The former, a very fine 
 example of the Queen Anne style of architecture, consists of four 
 stories and basement, surmounted by a tower 100 feet in height. 
 The two fronts of the building, on Harrison and Honore streets, 
 
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 are of Lemont limestone, elaborately carved. The Rush Medical 
 College is an equally beautiful building, in every respect befitting 
 so important an institution. There are about 2,000 students 
 receiving instruction in medicine and surgery in the medical 
 schools of Chicago, of whom about one-fourth attend the Hahne- 
 mann and Homoeopathic colleges. 
 
 Rush Medical College, corner Harrison and Wood Streets. 
 
 With the medical colleges may be classed the College of Phar- 
 macy and the Illinois Training School for Nurses. 
 
 The theological colleges are the Garrett Biblical Institute, at 
 Evanston, belonging to the Methodist Episcopal church ; the Bap- 
 tist Union Theological Seminary, Morgan Park; the Chicago The- 
 
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 ological Seminary (Congregational), Union Park; the Presbyterian 
 Theological Seminary of the Northwest, North Halsted Street, 
 and St. Ignatius College, West Twelfth Street — all flourishing 
 institutions, ranking high among the colleges of the respective 
 churches. 
 
 The University of Chicago. — Upon the dissolution of the 
 old Chicago University, in 1886, great regret was felt, and there 
 was a profound conviction that Chicago was the proper location 
 for a great seat of learning, in order to reflect credit on the great 
 city and the West. The question was taken up at a meeting of 
 the American Baptist Education Society, at Boston, in May, 1889, 
 and, owing to the princely gift of $600,000 by John D. Rockefeller, 
 the matter took definite shape. A college committee of thirty-six 
 was appointed in the effort to fulfill the conditions imposed by Mr. 
 Rockefeller, and in a short time were successful beyond expecta- 
 tion. Not only the money consideration was secured, but also a 
 site, the gift of Marshall Field. The location fixed upon for this 
 great institution of learning has the main front on Midway Plai- 
 sance, and consists of four blocks, or about twenty-five acres. 
 Prof. W. R. Harper, professor of Semitic languages at Yale 
 College, a gentleman of rare scholastic and executive attainments, 
 was chosen president in September, 1890, and under his charge 
 the scope of the university has been greatly enlarged. Mr. 
 Rockefeller has also been most generous, having made two sep- 
 arate gifts of $1,000,000 each, or $2,600,000 in all. The multi- 
 millionaire president of the Standard Oil Company accompanied 
 his last gift with a letter, offering thanks to God for his complete 
 recovery from sickness. The curriculum embraces many im- 
 provements on the methods of the older colleges. About 1,000 
 students attended the preliminary examinations. 
 
 The first term of the new university began October i, 1892. 
 
 The Chicago Athenaeum, which is justly called the " Peo- 
 ple's College," is a private educational institution for the public 
 benefit on a philanthropic basis. It has entered upon its twenty- 
 first year. Over ten thousand young men and women have enjoyed 
 its liberal advantages. The new Athenaeum Building has one of 
 the choicest and most central of locations, 18-26 Van Buren 
 Street. It is seven stories high, commanding a fine view of Lake 
 
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 Michigan; is handsomely furnished, and has the great advantages 
 of abundant light, thorough ventilation, and quiet class-rooms. 
 It has daily sessions during almost the entire year, and evening 
 classes during nine months. It employs an efficient corps of 
 thirty teachers, most of whose instruction is individual. The 
 tuition is quite moderate. Pupils may enter at their own con- 
 venience, and select their own studies. They may pursue the 
 common English braches, take a thorough business or short- 
 hand course, or — if engaged in mechanical or architectural pur- 
 suits — receive instruction in drawing and the higher mathematics. 
 To these departments are added the modern languages, Latin 
 and Greek, elocution, rhetoric, wood-carving, painting, vocal and 
 instrumental music. 
 
 The Athenaeum also maintains a fine library and reading- 
 room, and the largest and best-equipped gymnasium in the city. 
 
 The board of directors and officers of this practical and most 
 useful institution are the following well-known gentlemen: 
 
 Directors — Lyman J. Gage, Franklin H. Head, H. H. 
 Kohlsaat, Charles J. Singer, Hugh A. White, Edw. B. Butler, 
 Henry Booth, Ferdinand W. Peck, A. C. Bartlett. J. J. P. Odell, 
 Jos. Sears, Wm. R. Page, Gilbert B. Shaw, Alex. H. Revell, 
 Harry G. Sel fridge, John Wilkinson. 
 
 Officers — Ferdinand W. Peck, president; Wm. R. Page, first 
 vice-president; Harry G. Self ridge, second vice-president; John 
 Wilkinson, recording secretary and treasurer; Edw. I. Galvin, 
 superintendent. 
 
 The Athenaeum library and reading-room has been considera- 
 bly enlarged and improved. It contains a fine collection of books 
 of the best American and English Hterature, and excellent works 
 of reference. All the daily, weekly, and leading illustrated 
 papers, magazines, and reviews are provided for the use of 
 members. 
 
 The Northwestern University is located at Evanston, a 
 beautiful village on Lake Michigan, eleven miles north of Chi- 
 cago. The main building, whici is of stone, cost over $110,000. 
 The course of instruction is of the most complete character, there 
 being upward of thirty professors and lecturers, exclusive of the 
 faculty of the Chicago Medical College, affiliated with it. The 
 
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 university has one of the most valuable reference libraries in the 
 country, including many manuscripts and unbound pamphlets. 
 It has also an excellent Museum of Natural History. 
 
 The institutions which have for their object the encourage- 
 ment of art, or the advancement of science, are more numerous 
 and flourishing than might be expected in a city in which indus- 
 trial pursuits engage the activities of a larger proportion of the 
 population than in any other great city in the world. The names 
 of the various societies for the encouragement of the fine arts, 
 particularly drawing, painting, and sculpture, the several musical 
 societies, and the institutions for the pursuit of science and 
 philosophy will be found under the head of Clubs and Societies. 
 
 The Public Library. 
 
 This popular institution occupies (since July, 1886) fine quar- 
 ters on the top floor of the City Hall, La Salle and Washington 
 streets; but the time is not far distant when more commodious 
 quarters will be absolutely necessary for its accommodation, and 
 a suitable building is in course of construction on the Lake Front, 
 between Randolph and Washington streets, the ground being 
 broken for the same on July 22, 1892. 
 
 Its establishment dates from 1872, when, in commemoration 
 of the Great Fire of October, 1871, a great number of English 
 authors and publishers generously contributed copies of their 
 works. The nucleus thus formed has grown into a magnificent 
 collection of 177,178 volumes, the greater part of which belong 
 to the circulating department. 
 
 The books issued to borrowers during the year ending May 31, 
 1892, numbered 2,115,386 — a daily average of 5,795. 
 
 The number of visitors to the reference department, to which 
 belong the reviews, encyclopedias, and a very valuable collection 
 of British and American patent reports, the binding of which alone 
 cost over $10,000, was unusually large, 110,962. Valuable addi- 
 tions were lately made. 
 
 The reading room is supplied with 704 periodicals, and issued 
 700,917 during the year. It was visited in 1891-92 by 560,760 
 persons. 
 
126 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 The entire cost of supporting this excellent institution, for the 
 financial year ending May 31, 1892, was about $100,000, which 
 sum was expended in the purchase of new books, newspapers, peri- 
 odicals, binding, repairing, and maintaining the library. The 
 librarian is Mr. Fred H. Hild. 
 
 The Newberry Library. 
 
 This institution is a monument to the munificence of Walter 
 Loomis Newberry, who left a will providing, in certain events, 
 that his fortune should be divided in equal portions between his 
 surviving relatives and the projected institution. The sum real- 
 ized for the use of the library was $2,149,201, which, by judicious 
 investment, has been increased to nearly $3,000,000; and the 
 ground occupied by the old Ogden homestead before the fire — the 
 square bounded by Dearborn Avenue, Clark Street, Oak Street, 
 and Walton Place, and facing Washington Park — has been secured 
 for the building, which is in rapid progress and bids fair to be all 
 that a library should be. 
 
 Temporary quarters have been erected at North State Street, at 
 the corner of Oak Street, where a large and rapidly growing col- 
 lection of reference books may be consulted between 9 a. m. and 
 5 p. M. W. F. Poole, LL.D., is the hbrarian. The total num- 
 ber of books in the library in 1892 was 78,179, and 27,807 pamph- 
 lets. Accessions in that year were 17,565 books and 3 , 849 pamph- 
 lets. The reading-rooms were used by 16,802 persons — 11,864 
 men and 4,938 women; tke daily average attendance was fifty-five. 
 Its annual expenditure was $62,481 in 1892. The library will 
 shortly be incorporated under a recent statute. 
 
 The Crerar Library. 
 
 In 1890 John Crerar, a wealthy and benevolent inhabitant of 
 Chicago, by his will bequeathed about $2,000,000 for the building, 
 endowment, and maintenance of a free public library, to be 
 located on the South Side. Unfortunately, certain relatives con- 
 tested the bequest, but the courts having recently decided in favor 
 of the validity of the testament, it is hoped that Chicago will 
 speedily be reaping the benefit of the testator's benevolence. 
 
XIII. 
 
 ART, ARCHITECTURE, AND MON 
 UMENTS OF CHICAGO. 
 
 Art in Chicago. — Curiously enough, the histor)- of the 
 encouragement of art in Chicago must deal with the business men 
 of the community rather than with the artists. Even in architect- 
 ure, commerce gave the artist his opportunity, although it could 
 not give him genius; that was his own. And it is safe to say that 
 whatever has been accomplished in building up art schools, exhi- 
 bitions, and collections, and in fostering an interest in art in the 
 community at large, is due to the men of affairs, who have thrown 
 into this work the same energy that has built the city and made it 
 famous. 
 
 Art InstHuie. 
 
 Chicago contains a greater number of resident artists than any 
 other Western city — some 300, according to the directory of 1892 — 
 and there are in the city a number of very fine pictures; but until 
 recently the cause of art education has only managed to struggle 
 along since the fire. 
 
 The Art Institute. — The institute is attended during the 
 year by about 400 pupils, and is self-supporting. Exhibitions are 
 held frequently, and there is a very creditable nucleus of a perma- 
 nent collection. It having been long crowded into inadequate 
 space in its late building, a much larger structure is to be erected 
 on land donated by the city upon the Lake Front, facing Adams 
 Street. The building will stand as a memorial of the great Fair, 
 as it is to be used at that time for the assemblies of the World's 
 Congress Auxiliary. The design, drawn by Shipley, Rutan, and 
 
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128 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 Coolidge of Boston, contemplates a building 320 feet in length 
 by 175 and 208 feet in width, and provides ample accommodations 
 on the lower floor for the exhibition of sculpture, metal-work, and 
 kindred objects, and for the library and lecture hall, and on the 
 upper for the display of pictures. The exterior, severe in con- 
 ception and classic in feeling, is peculiarly suited for the purposes 
 for which it is intended, and will constitute a noticeable feature on 
 the boulevard. 
 
 The Collections of the Illinois Art Association, the Illinois 
 Club, 154 Ashland Boulevard; the Vincennes Gallery of Fine 
 Arts, 3841 Vincennes Avenue, and the galleries of several of the 
 principal clubs are well worth inspection, if the tourist can secure 
 permission. 
 
 The Private Collections of pictures of Chicago are of the 
 most valuable and complete kind. Accessible, as a rule, only by 
 personal acquaintance or favor of the owners, the collections 
 formed by Messrs. James W. Ellsworth, Potter Palmer, Charles 
 T. Yerkes. C. L. Hutchinson, J. Russell Jones, and many others, 
 include some of the best and most costly examples of ancient and 
 modern art. 
 
 ThB City's Noteworthy Monuments. 
 
 Premising that the sculptures of the parks are to be sought for 
 in the chapters exclusively relating to the city's parks and squares 
 rather than here, a list of the important monuments and inscrip- 
 tions 'may be useful to the tourist, and even interesting to the 
 inhabitant of the city. Very short must be the space accorded, 
 serving merely as a handy guide, as this work is intended to. 
 
 The Police Monument, commemorative of the anarchist 
 riot on the night of May 4, 1886. Location, the Haymarket 
 Square, at the intersection of West Randolph and Desplaines 
 streets. Take West Randolph Street car to reach it. The statue 
 is a life-size representation of a city police officer in full uniform, 
 with uplifted hand, in the act of *' commanding the peace." The 
 inscription on the pedestal, which is surmounted by a railing, 
 reads, " In the name of the People of Illinois, I command Peace." 
 The anarchists' bomb was thrown on Desplaines Street from an 
 alley near Crane Bros.' establishment. Seven policemen were 
 
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 killed and many wounded, besides an unascertained number of 
 the mob. Seven rioters were convicted of murder. Parsons, 
 Spies, Engel, and Fischer were executed for the crime on the nth 
 of November, 1887. Lingg committed suicide while under sen- 
 tence of death; Fieldenand Schwab had their sentences commuted 
 to life imprisonment. The executed anarchists are buried in 
 Waldheim Cemetery. 
 
 The Grant Monument, Lincoln Park. 
 
 Columbus Statue, by St. Gaudens, is to be placed at the 
 World's Fair facing the lake at the principal pier. The Columbus 
 Statue belonging to the City of Baltimore (Maryland) is, it is 
 said, to be loaned by the " Monumental City," and exhibited on 
 the World's Fair grounds. A proposal is also afoot to place 
 another statute of Columbus in the Lake Front Park. 
 
 Drake Fountain and Columbus Statue is to occupy space 
 between the City Hall and Court House buildings, Washington 
 Street frontage. It was presented to the city by Mr. John B. 
 Drake, a worthy and respected citizen of Chicago. It is Gothic 
 
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 in style, and will be composed of granite from Bavino, Italy. 
 The base is sixteen feet square, length thirty-five feet. The 
 design includes a pedestal, on the front of which will be placed 
 a bronze statue of Christopher Columbus, seven feet high, 
 which is to be cast in the royal foundry at Rome. The 
 statue is the production of an American artist of reputation, Mr. 
 R. H. Park of Chicago. The fountain is to be provided with an 
 ice chamber capable of holding two tons of ice, and is to be sur- 
 rounded with a water pipe containing ten faucets, each supplied 
 with a bronze cup. The entire cost will be $15,000. Mr. Drake's 
 generous gift to the city is to be ready for public use in 1892, and 
 it will thus be happily commemorative of the 400th anniversary of 
 the discovery of America by Columbus. The inscriptions read: 
 ." Ice Water Drinking Fountain, presented to the City of Chicago 
 by John B. Drake, 1892," and on the pedestal of the statue, 
 " Christopher Columbus, the Discoverer of America, 1492-1892." 
 The U, S. Grant Equestrian Monument in Lincoln Park 
 (see ante Chapter VII, there fully described). 
 
 General Sheridan Statue, proposed to be erected in Union 
 Park. 
 
 General Garfield Statue, proposed to be erected in Garfield 
 Park. 
 
 Linnaeus Statue (see Lincoln Park). 
 Frederick Von Schiller Monument (see Lincoln Park). 
 La Salle Monument (see Lincoln Park). 
 Ottawa Indian Group (see Lincoln Park). 
 The Abraham Lincoln Monument, by St. Gaudens, in 
 Lincoln Park. Inscription: "1809, Abraham Lincoln. 1865. 
 The gift of Eli Bates. With malice toward none, with charity 
 for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, 
 let us strive on. Let us have faith that right makes might, and 
 in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we under- 
 stand it." 
 
 The Great Fire Inscription, 137 De Koven Street. On a 
 
 tablet on the house, '" The Great Fire of 1871 originated here 
 
 and extended to Lincoln Park. Chicago Historical Society, 1881." 
 
 The Douglas Monument, over the body of Stephen A. 
 
 Douglas. The monument stands on the Lake Shore at Thirty- 
 
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 fifth Street, and was erected by the State of Illinois. Inscription 
 "Stephen A. Douglas, born April 3, 1813. Died June 3, 1861, 
 Tell my children to obey the laws and uphold the Constitution." 
 
 
 
 Douglas Monument, Thirty-fifth Street and Cottage Grove Avenue. 
 
 The Fort Dearborn Inscription on the warehouse of W. M. 
 Hoyt Company: " Block Hou e of Fort Dearborn. This build- 
 ing occupies the site of old Fort Dearborn, which extended a little 
 across Michigan Avenue and somewhat into the river, as it now 
 is. The fort was built in 1803-04, forming our outmost defense. 
 
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 By order of General Hull it was evacuated August 15, 18 12, after 
 its stores and provisions had been distributed among t^ie Indians. 
 Very soon after, the Indians attacked and massacred about fifty of 
 the troops and a number of citizens, including women and children, 
 and the next day burned the fort. In 181 5 it was rebuilt, but 
 after the Black Hawk War it went into gradual disuse, and in 
 May, 1837, was abandoned by the army, but was occupied by vari- 
 ous Government officers till 1857, when it was torn down, except- 
 ing a single building which stood upon this site till the great fire 
 of October 8, 1871. At the suggestion of the Chicago Historical 
 Society this tablet was erected by W. M. Hoyt, November, 
 1880." 
 
 Fort Dearborn Massacre. — The Pullman Statue.— Gtorgt. 
 M. Pullman is having the sculptor Carl Rohl-Smith execute a 
 group of life-size statuary to represent the massacre of August 15, 
 1812, on the evacuation of old Fort Dearborn. It will be finished 
 by April i, 1893, at a cost of $30,000, and will be erected near 
 Mr. Pullman's residence, at Calumet Avenue and Eighteenth Street. 
 The pedestal will be of Quincy granite, ten feet high. Bronze tablets 
 in the four sides will represent the fight and massacre, the wagon- 
 trains leaving the fort, and the scene at the moment of Captain 
 Wells' de^th. The group shows an Indian in the act of toma- 
 hawking Mrs. Helm, and another Indian knifing the surgeon, 
 while Black Partridge, Mrs. Helm's rescuer, occupies the most 
 prominent position. 
 
 The Armstrong Bust is at the corner of Clark and Adams 
 streets, on the post office grassplat. The inscription reads ; ' ' To the 
 memory of George Buchanan Armstrong, Founder of the Railway 
 Mail Service in the United States. Born in Armagh, Ireland, Oc- 
 tober 27, A. D. 1822. Died in Chicago, May 5. 1871. Erected by 
 the clerks in the service, 1881." 
 
XIV. 
 CLUBS AND SOCIETIES. 
 
 Social Clubs. 
 
 In a book of this character the subject of social clubs need not 
 consume much space, since without an invitation from a member 
 nothing more than the outside of the club houses can be seen by 
 a stranger. In many cases, indeed, there is little to rcAvard curi- 
 osity inside; while some, like the Union League, and others of the 
 older and more prominent class, have splendid rooms, filled with 
 treasures of 'art as well as all the appliances of comfort and 
 luxury which the modern upholsterer, decorator, and cook are able 
 to supply. Clubs have increased in numbers, and expanded in 
 membership and importance, with the growth of the city, and will 
 continue to do so. 
 
 Of the social clubs the Union League is among the foremost, 
 and its grand house at the intersection of Jackson Street and 
 Custom House Place is one of the ornaments of the city. 
 
 Among the multitude of Chicago's club houses, the following 
 are some of those interesting to strangers, because of the hand- 
 some buildings or elegant quarters occupied by them: 
 
 Argo Club, situated on Lake Michigan, foot of Randolph 
 Street; the most unique of any club house in the city. 
 
 Calumet Club, Michigan Avenue and Twentieth Street; a 
 magnificent building; the leading South Side club. 
 
 Chicago Chib, Monroe Street, east of State Street; a plain 
 building, but elegantly furnished; one of the oldest of the Chicago 
 clubs. 
 
 Illinois Club, 154 Ashland Avenue; a handsome and com- 
 modious building; the leading West Side club. 
 
 Iroquois Club, no Monroe Street (Columbia Theater Build- 
 ing); handsomely furnished apartments; a strictly Democratic 
 social club. 
 
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 La Salle Club, 252 West Monroe Street; a fine three-story 
 building; a Republican social club. 
 
 Standard Club, Michigan Avenue and Thirteenth Street; one 
 
 Union League Club House, Jackson Street and Custom House Place. 
 
 of the most elegant club houses in the city; this is the leading 
 Hebrew club. 
 
 Union Club, Washington Place and Dearborn Avenue; a 
 handsome building with elegant appointments; leading North Side 
 club. 
 
 Secret Orders. 
 
 All, probably, of the secret orders and societies in the United 
 
 States have representatives in Chicago, and for many it is the 
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136 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 American headquarters. A list about as long and as interesting 
 as the Homeric navy list will be found in the City Directory. 
 One thousand four hundred and twenty-four in number, with 
 fifty-three colored societies, small wonder it is that nine citizens 
 out of ten are adorned with badge or button. 
 
 Free Masonry. — The brothers of the Mystic Tie, *'who 
 meet upon the level and part upon the square," have a magnificent 
 home in the newly erected Masonic Temple at the corner of Ran- 
 dolph and State streets. 
 
 Walking north on State vStreet the eye is at once arrested by this 
 imposing pile, the neighboring palaces of trade sinking into insig- 
 nificance by comparison. The bay windows of the State Street 
 front break the otherwise severe simplicity of its walls into curves, 
 at once pleasing and artistic. 
 
 The entrance is a massive granite archway, forty feet high by 
 thirty-eight feet wide. The door s, of heavy plate glass, are framed in 
 bronze, and lead into a rotunda, which absolutely seems to reach the 
 skies. From the rich mosaic floor the eye journeys up and up, noting 
 the polished Italian marble walls, the massive girders of steel, and 
 the graceful railings of bronze outlining each floor. One, two, three, 
 up and on, till twenty-one are counted and the mellow radiance of 
 the glass roof obstructs the view. Then your neck aches, and you 
 replace your hat and front the elevators standing in a semicircle at 
 the rear and flanked with marble pillars in a row. As you step in, 
 you notice the flights of marble stairs climbing over your head 
 dizzily, and as you go up, with the ease and buoyancy of a bird, 
 you wonder at the deliciously fresh air you are breathing, and 
 notice that the system of ventilation is as unique as it is perfect. 
 
 From the first to the seventeenth floor the building is devoted 
 *"0 business purposes, from there up to part of the nineteenth and 
 twentieth Masonry will revel in all its gorgeous and mystic splen- 
 dor. Looking upon the beautiful color designs, but recently com- 
 pleted, and listening to the discourse of the artists, who are so 
 busily engaged on the decorations and furnishings of these won- 
 drous halls, you imbibe some of their enthusiasm. Just a slight 
 demand on the imagination, and the Orient dawns on you in all its 
 fabled magnificence; rare marbles, paintings, and tapestries peep 
 from every nook. Mosaic floors, and floors lavishly strewn with 
 
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 BANDY GUIDE TO CHIC AGO. 
 
 costly nigs, lie beneath your feet. India, Persia, and Japan have 
 yielded their choicest art treasures to deck these sumptuous apart- 
 ments, the result being a dream of almost more than earthly 
 beauty. Egypt has lent her somber inspiration, tuned to the lotus- 
 eaters* reveries, while ancient Greece keeps her company, with all 
 its classic grace and purity. 
 
 Here a hall opens out like the transept of a cathedral, its ceil- 
 ings arched and pan- 
 eled with heraldic 
 designs. A "dim 
 religious light" per- 
 vades the vast room, 
 and perfume of "cen- 
 ser swung " seems to 
 float through the 
 silence. 
 
 Was that the min 
 ster bell's chiming, 
 sweet and low, and 
 do the knights, in 
 clanking armor clad, 
 bend low their 
 plumed heads, battle- 
 scarred and toil-worn 
 from the long cru- 
 sades? One does not 
 need to close the eyes 
 to summon them back 
 from the long dead 
 age of chivalry and 
 romance. A raised N^ 
 dais, canopied witli '" 
 beautiful grille work, 
 fronts a great organ, ~^^^ Proposed Odd Fellows BuHding. 
 
 whose pipes are picked out in gold and red and blue. 
 
 There is an assembly-room, a club-room, parlors, smoking and 
 coat rooms, kitchens and corridors, armories, store-rooms, property- 
 rooms, all to be finished and furnished in the most artistic and 
 
CLUBS AND SOCIETIES. 139 
 
 sumptuous manner. There are over 28,000 feet of flooring space 
 devoted to the exclusive use of tlie Masons, forming the most 
 magnificent suite of lodge rooms in the world. The seventeenth, 
 eighteenth, and part of the nineteenth and twentieth stories com- 
 prise the suite; and the twenty-first story is a huge observatory, 
 roofed with glass, from the windows of which can be seen the entire 
 city and the tumbling waters of the lake, touching the misty sand 
 dunes of Michigan away out against the verge of the horizon. 
 
 The streets look like pathways among toy houses; cable cars 
 are but boxes on wheels; horses look like diminutive ponies from 
 this eerie height; and what an insignificant little creature human- 
 ity seems, ant-like, hurrying hither and thither in swarms on the 
 sidewalk; the water tower, away out by the " nord site," looks 
 like a pencil stood on end, and the breezy spaces of Lincoln Park, 
 with its grass and trees, look like bits of green muslin spread out 
 to bleach in the sunlight. When the smoke of the city lifts suffi- 
 ciently, the buildings to the westward seem to reach limitlessly. 
 Streets are but threads trailing out to where the sky comes down 
 to kiss the prairie, and surely all those trees are nothing but 
 dwarfed shrubbery. Massed with palms and swept with the cool- 
 ing breezes from the lake, no more delightful spot could be found 
 to while away the long listless hours of a summer afternoon than 
 the top floor of the Masonic Temple. 
 
 The capping wonder of the whole is this — but one short year 
 lies between the corner and the cope stones. The building pro- 
 gressed by day and night, and on the anniversary of the laying of 
 the corner-stone the last stone was put in place with all the solemn 
 and impressive rights of the order. 
 
 Absolutely fire-proof, with the best ventilation in the city, and 
 elevator service which modern devices have placed beyond the pos- 
 sibility 01 an accident — making retail trade an assured fact on upper 
 floors — centrally located, and on the fashionable side of the street, 
 the Masonic Temple stands an object of pride to every Chicagoan 
 and a thing of wondering admiration to the visitor within our 
 gates. 
 
XV. 
 MILITARY AFFAIRS. 
 
 Prominent is Chicago as the headquarters of the Military 
 Division of Missouri, General Nelson A. Miles, the major-general 
 commanding, being located with his staff officers in the Pullman 
 Building (Michigan Avenue and Adams Street). 
 
 The nearest United States military post is situated at Fort 
 Sheridan, twenty-five miles distant — on the Milwaukee Division 
 of the C. & N.-W. Ry. (Wells Street Depot); round trip, $1.25. 
 There are some 600 officers and men stationed at the fort. 
 
 National Guard. — Two regiments of the Illinois National 
 Guard, a battery of artillery, the Chicago Hussars, and various 
 other military and semi-military organizations uphold the reputa- 
 tion of Chicago's "soldier laddies," and the first three, in the 
 unfortunate event of riot or disorder, efficiently aid the civil power 
 in the dispersion of law-breakers. 
 
 To those interested in the relics of "war's glorious art," the 
 Libby Prison War Museum, on Wabash Avenue and Fourteenth 
 Street, will particularly appeal, filled as it is wnth most valuable 
 and varied collections relating to the Civil and other wars. 
 
 Military at the Fair. — During the Exposition a large force 
 of Federal and State Troops, drawn from all sections of the coun- 
 try, are to be found encamped near Washington Park, the intention 
 being not only to afford the officers and men a good opportunity 
 to view the Exposition, but at the same time to give civilian visitors 
 (especially those from foreign and far-off countries) a good and 
 reliable idea of the military forces of the United States. A mag- 
 nificent military parade ground for their maneuvers has been 
 provided by the Exposition in front of the United States Govern- 
 ment Building and in full view of the lake. 
 
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XVI. 
 
 HOSPITALS, DISPENSARIES, AND 
 NURSES. 
 
 The numerous humane institutions which flourish in Chicago 
 would seem to disprove the assumption of those who assert that 
 a city devoted to money-getting must lack the kindlier instincts. 
 Besides the numerous homes, asylums, and aids, there are twenty- 
 four hospitals and free dispensaries in Chicago. The principal 
 hospitals are: 
 
 The Cook County Hospital, founded in 1847, three miles 
 west-southwest from the court house. It occupies two entire 
 squares, being bounded north and south by West Harrison and 
 West Polk streets, and east and west by South Wood and South 
 Lincoln streets. Contiguous to it are the Rush Medical College, 
 the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago, and the Chi- 
 cago Homoeopathic College, the students of which enjoy the ad- 
 vantages of attending its various wards. These institutions may 
 be reached by the Ogden Avenue cars, starting from La Salle and 
 Madison streets. 
 
 Mercy Hospital, an institution of the Sisters of Mercy, is 
 located at the corner of Calumet Avenue and Twenty-sixth Street, 
 adjoining the Chicago Medical College, whose students have 
 access to its wards. It has accommodations for 180 patients. 
 Thirty-six sisters manage it, at an annual cost of $26,000, which 
 is met by voluntary contributions and the money received from 
 paying patients. 
 
 The Michael Reese Hospital is a Hebrew charity, provided 
 for in a fund of $90,000 left by will of the late Michael Reese. 
 It is managed by the Hebrew Relief Association, though no test 
 
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 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 of faith is proposed to applicants for admission. Both sexes are 
 received. It is located at the corner of Groveland Avenue and 
 Thirty-ninth Street. 
 
 The Presbyterian Hospital, situated on the southeast cor- 
 ner of Congress and Wood streets, can be reached by the Van 
 Buren Street, Ogden Avenue, and Harrison Street cars. It has 
 a capacity of 225 beds. The object of the society is the establish- 
 ment, support, and management of an institution for the purpose 
 of affording medical and surgical aid and nursing to sick and dis- 
 abled persons of whatever creed or color, and to provide them. 
 
 The Presbyterian Hospital, corner of Congress and Wood Streets. 
 
 while inmates of the hospital, with the ministrations of the Gos- 
 pel agreeable to the doctrine and forms of the Presbyterian 
 church. 
 
 The United States Marine Hospital is situated in Lake 
 View, on the Lake Shore, six miles north of the City Hall. The 
 grounds comprise ten acres, and the building is a handsome 
 granite structure, four stories high, with a basement. It is 
 300 X 75 feet, and has accommodations for 150 patients. It is the 
 largest hospital of the kind in the country, and cost the Govern- 
 ment $450,000. Over 3,000 patients are treated annually in its 
 disoensarv. It is maintained bv a tax on the tonnage of shipping. 
 
HOSPITALS, DISPENSARIES, AND NURSES. 143 
 
 American citizens are treated free, and foreigners at a small 
 charge. The city office is in room 20 of the Postoffice and Fed- 
 eral }3uilding. 
 
 St. Joseph's Hospital, 360 Garfield Avenue, was established 
 by the Sisters of Charity, in i860. The building will accommo- 
 date eighty persons. Patients are received without regard to 
 creed, those who can pay being expected to do so, while others 
 are cared for free. 
 
 St. Luke's Free Hospital is under control of the Episco- 
 palians, but receives patients regardless of religious faith. It is 
 supported by annual collections taken on St. Luke's Day in all the 
 Episcopal churches of Chicago, and to this source of income have 
 been added, from time to time, many private bequests and con- 
 tributions. The several handsome buildings comprised in the 
 institution are located at Fourteenth Street, with a frontage on 
 Indiana Avpnue. 
 
 St. Elizabeth's Hospital, at Davis and Thompson streets, a 
 short distance east of Humboldt Park, is a charitable institution in 
 charge of the Catholic sisterhood of the Poor Handmaidens of Jesus 
 Christ. When completed it will accommodate eighty patients. 
 The first wing was completed and dedicated December 5, 1886. 
 No discrimination is made on account of nationality, sex, or 
 religious belief. 
 
 The Hospital of the Alexian Brothers, at 565 North 
 Market Street, is the pioneer establishment of this order in 
 America. It is a spacious building and has accommodations for 
 100 patients. No discrimination is made on account of the sex or 
 creed of applicants. 
 
 Other important hospitals are the Women's Hospital of 
 Chicago, 118 Thirty-fifth Street; the Bennett Hospital, in the rear 
 of Bennett Medical College, 511 and 513 State Street; the Illinois 
 Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, with accommodations for 150 
 patients, corner West Adams and Peoria streets, and others, gen- 
 eral and special. 
 
 Accidents and street casualties are attended by the Police 
 Ambulance service, the ambulance wagon being called by an 
 officer from the nearest patrol box. The officers in charge per- 
 
144 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 form useful service in rendering immediate aid and relief to injured 
 persons and speedily removing the sufferer to the proper hospital 
 for more elaborate medical attention, when the nature of the injury 
 requires it. 
 
 Free Dispensaries figure importantly in the healing of Chi- 
 cago's sick poor. The most important are located as follows: 
 
 Alexian Brothers' Hospital Free Dispensary, 559 North Market 
 Street. 
 
 Arviozir Mission Dispencary, cor. Thirty-third Street and 
 Armour Avenue. 
 
 Bennett Free Dispensary, northwest cor. Ada and Fulton 
 streets. 
 
 Bethesda Free Medical Mission^ 368 South Clark Street. 
 
 Central Free Dispensary of West Chicago, cor. Wood and 
 West Harrison streets. 
 
 Central Homoeopathic Dispensary, cor. South Wood and York 
 streets. 
 
 Dispensary of the Chicago Hospital for Women and Children, 
 cor. Paulina and West Adams streets. 
 
 Hahnemann College Dispensary, 2813 Cottage Grove Avenue. 
 
 Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary, ill South Peoria Street. 
 
 Sotith Side Free Dispensary, cor. Prairie Avenue and Twenty- 
 sixth Street. 
 
 St. Luke's Free Dispensary, 1430 Indiana Avenue. 
 
 West Side Free Dispensary, 315 Honore Street. 
 
 Women's Hospital of Chicago, cor. Rhodes Avenue and Thirty- 
 second Street. 
 
 Nurses and Nursing. — Excellently well supplied is Chicago 
 with those most valuable aids in cases of severe illness — skilled 
 and professional nurses. Exclusive of those employed by the 
 various hospitals, there are over 200 trained nurses in the city, 
 and the number is constantly increasing. The Illinois Training 
 School for Nurses is located at 304 Honore Street, and is doing 
 excellent work. 
 
 The Morgue. — On the premises of the Cook County Hos- 
 pital is a new building recently constructed for this especial purpose. 
 There is usually a considerable number of unidentified corpses on 
 view, though some, especially in cases of murder and suicide, are 
 taken by the police to Klaner's, 242 Wabash Avenue, or other 
 private morgues. 
 
 Work of the Coroner. — The records for the six months end- 
 ing June 30, 1892, show that the total number of cases investi- 
 
HOSPITALS, DISPENSARIES, AND NURSES. 145 
 
 gated by the coroner was 790. Of these 790 victims, 674 were 
 males and 116 females, and the great majority were adults. The 
 greatest source of violent deaths was, as usual, the railroads. Trains 
 killed 164 persons, of whom 150 were males and 14 females. Sui- 
 cides, as shown by the books, number 139, though that number 
 did not include all, for a great many cases of drowning, in which 
 the juries were not able to say whether they were suicidal or acci- 
 dental, and which are not included in the above number, were un- 
 doubtedly suicides. Deaths by asphyxiation are not included in 
 the 139, either, though in many of them verdicts of suicide were 
 returned. Shooting was the favorite way of ending life, there 
 being 50 cases. Of these 50 victims, 47 were men. Poison 
 ranks next as the favorite method, there being 40 cases. Women 
 seemed to prefer this method above the pistol, for in 10 of the 
 40 cases the victims were females. Next to poisoning came hang- 
 ing. The number of persons who thus killed themselves was 
 24, and 4 of these were women. In 13 cases were verdicts 
 of suicide by drowning returned. Four of these verdicts were re- 
 turned for women. Eight men and 4 women took their lives 
 by other means. Seventy-nine cases of drowning, besides the 
 13 known to have been suicidal, were reported, and of this 
 number 38 were in the month of June, during the heavy 
 floods. Seventy-one of the victims were males and the other 
 8 females. The total number of deaths from drowning was 
 93, of which 13 were plainly suicidal, 79 accidental or doubtful, 
 and I a plain case of murder. 
 
 There were 43 murders, and in 11 cases the victims were women. 
 In most of the cases the murderers were apprehended and held 
 to the grand jury. Accidental shootings number 5, of which 
 number of victims 4 were males. Twenty men were killed 
 in elevators. There were 20 deaths from injuries received 
 in street car accidents. Sixteen of the victims were males. 
 Six men are said to have died of acute alcoholism. Thirty-one 
 cases of asphyxiation are recorded. Nine of these victims were 
 women, and about half the deaths were accidental. Two men 
 starved to death. Six men were killed in boiler explosions. 
 Fourteen deaths from falling buildings are noted. 
 
146 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 Cemeteries. 
 
 Rich in verdant lawn, rare with "storied urn and animated 
 bust, "stand Chicago's fair "Cities of the Silent." " The rude fore- 
 fathers of the hamlet " slept near the lake where now runs Eight- 
 
 Scene in Graceland Cemeteiy. 
 
 eenth Street, and, later, their descendants, " life's fitful fever o'er," 
 were interred on the site of the present Lincoln Park. In 1865 
 all bodies were removed to Graceland, Rosehill, or Oakwoods 
 cemeteries, then recently opened; the principal places of interment 
 now beingas follows: 
 
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 Rosehill Cemetery, which comprises 500 acres of ground, 
 on the line of the Chicago & North-Western Railway (Milwaukee 
 Division), seven and a half miles from the Wells Street Depot and 
 one and one-fourth miles west of the lake. It has a fine entrance 
 arch, and is well laid out. An artesian well, 2,279 feet deep, sup- 
 plies a series of lakes with fresh, clear water, serving to vary and 
 beautify the scenery. About half the ground is improved, and 
 the interments have been over 30,000. Noticeable are the monu- 
 ments to " Our Heroes," the Voluntary Firemen, and A. J. Snell 
 (alleged to have been murdered by the elusive Tascott). 
 
 Graceland Cemetery was founded in 1861 by T. B. Bryan, 
 who purchased for the purpose eighty acres of land about five 
 miles north of the court house. But since that date various 
 additions have been made, until it is, with the single exception of 
 Greenwood, New York, the largest cemetery in the United States. 
 The aim of the management is to make this cemetery a cheerful 
 and attractive' place, and so to dissociate the idea of gloom from 
 death. With many natural advantages of surface and several 
 living springs to start with, they have so far succeeded in their 
 efforts that there are few more beautiful spots in or about the city, 
 and it will well repay a visit. It lies between one-fourth and one- 
 half mile west of the lake, and one square east of Ashland Avenue, 
 and may be reached either by the Chicago & North-Western or the 
 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railways, to Buena Park Station; 
 the North Side City Limits street cars, corner of Monroe and 
 La Salle streets; or, if preferred, by carriage via Clark Street and 
 Diversey Avenue and the Green Bay Road, which leads to Grace- 
 land. The Lake Shore Drive is the best way to reach the Green 
 Bay Road. The interments have exceeded 40,000. There is a 
 monument to Allan Pinkerton, the celebrated detective, here. 
 
 Calvary Cemetery, nine miles north of the city, near Evans- 
 ton, is the principal Catholic burying ground. It was conse- 
 crated in 1861. The interments have exceeded 20,000. 
 
 Oakwoods Cemetery was laid out in 1864. It lies south 
 of Sixty-seventh Street, on the line of the Illinois Central Rail- 
 road, eight miles from the City Hall. It includes 200 acres of 
 ground beautifully laid out on the " lawn plan." It is reached via 
 the boulevards through Washington Park or by the Illinois Cen- 
 
148 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 tral Railroad to Oakwoods Station. The interments have ex- 
 ceeded 19,000. Here 6,000 Confederate soldiers, who died as 
 prisoners of war at Camp Douglas, are interred in one common 
 grave. The Borden and the Soldiers' Home monuments are worth 
 inspection. 
 
 Forest Home Cemetery is situated beside the Des Plaines 
 River, on Madison Street, about four and a half miles west of the 
 city. Its eighty acres comprise a portion of the ground once 
 constituting Haase's Park, a noted resort in its day. The ceme- 
 tery is tastefully kept and well laid out on the "lawn system." 
 The interments in the Forest Home Cemetery, and the cemetery 
 of the Concordia Church Society adjoining, have been to date 
 over 10,000. Near here is Waldheim Cemetery, where the four 
 executed anarchists and the suicide Lingg are buried. 
 
 Besides the above, there are numerous smaller cemeteries, 
 situated within easy reach of the city. 
 
XVII. 
 
 CHARITIES AND BENEVOLENT 
 INSTITUTIONS. 
 
 Public Charities. 
 
 Bearing in mind that this is a visitor's, rather than a citizen's, 
 guide-book, not much in detail seems called for under this head. 
 The charities of Chicago may be divided into the two classes 
 Public and Private, though in reality these intermingle somewhat, 
 since public appropriations are made in some instances toward the 
 support of private, or semi-private, institutions. In a general way, 
 however, the distinction holds good. The public charitable insti- 
 tutions of the county of Cook, which includes the city areas, are 
 under control of the county commissioners. The office of the 
 county agent, their executive officer, is at 128 South Clinton Street, 
 and to it are made applications for relief, or admission to the hos- 
 pitals, almshouses, and nurseries, and for voluntary committal to 
 the workhouse. Any applicant, if entirely destitute, is entitled to 
 admission to the hospital at Dunning, or other appropriate institu- 
 tions, if chargeable to the county of Cook. 
 
 Private and Semi-Private Philanthropies. 
 
 The Chicago Charity Organization Society, composed 
 of the representatives of many of the charitable associations in the 
 city, exercises a general watchfulness over philanthropic labors, and 
 enables efforts toward doing good and suppressing evil to gain the 
 strength of united and organized direction, while the Relief 6^ 
 Aid Society, which did such noble work in the distress after the 
 great fire, continues its useful operations at 51 and 53 La Sail? 
 Street. 
 
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150 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 Of the private institutions for general assistance to the poor, 
 none are more widely known than the Armotir Mission, a magnifi- 
 cent memorial to Joseph Armour, partially provided for by a bequest 
 of $100,000 in his will, to which bequest his brother, P. D. Armour, 
 has added the sum of $150,000. The Mission proper is located 
 at the southeast corner of Thirty-third Street and Armour Avenue, 
 covers a space of about 85 x 135 feet, and comprises three stories 
 and basement. The basement and first story are of brown stone, 
 the second and third stories of red pressed brick and terra cotta, 
 and the roof, slate. The architectural design is simply and broadly 
 treated throughout, the various interior functions being frankly 
 expressed in the exterior. The basement is occupied by a kinder- 
 garten, aeche, workrooms fer boys and girls, and a free dispen- 
 sary, open daily to the poor. On the first floor are two large class- 
 rooms, flanking the main hall and stairway. These rooms are 
 each about twenty-five feet square, and there is on the same floor a 
 large assembly hall, about eighty feet square, and forty-five feet 
 high, fitted with gallery and stage, and having a seating capacity 
 for about 1,500 people. Opening into this hall, on the line of the 
 gallery, and situated above the class-rooms just mentioned, is a 
 large room, about 30 x 80 feet, intended to be used as a lyceum. 
 The entire building is finished in hard woods, heated with steam, 
 and ventilated by special appliances; and the assembly hall con- 
 tains a fine three-manual organ. The object is industrial, moral, 
 mental, and religipus training for the poor of the neighborhood, 
 the religious instruction being " non-sectarian." The Mission 
 property includes the ground from Thirty-first to Thirty-ninth 
 streets, and from State Street to Portland Avenue, within which 
 boundaries various charities will be added. On a portion of 
 the ground a number of flats have already been erected, and the 
 proceeds from their rentals (a total of about $14,000 per year) will 
 be applied to the support of the Mission in perpetuity. The insti- 
 tution was formally opened December 5, 1886. 
 
 Most charities take a more or less restricted field, and we may 
 therefore group them into classes according to their objects. 
 
 The Aged and Infirm are well provided for, several " homes '* 
 existing for their shelter alone; though some payment is expected. 
 
 The Old People's Home is a three-story building on Indiana 
 
BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS. 151 
 
 Avenue, near Thirty-ninth Street, accommodating eighty old 
 ladies. The property is valued at $70,000. To the efforts of a 
 hard-working seamstress this worthy charity owes its origin. 
 Samantha Smith, in founding this charity,* made for herself a mon- 
 ument " more enduring than bronze." It is intended to erect a 
 duplicate structure for the accommodation of old men. 
 
 The Bethany Ho }7ie is located at 1029 West Monroe Street, and 
 is reached by Madison Street cable. Its mission is to care for old 
 persons and the children of working-women. 
 
 The Church Hojne for Aged Persons, 4327 Ellis Avenue, 
 reached by Cottage Grove Avenue cable car, does good work in 
 caring for the aged. 
 
 The Germayi Old People's Home is at Harlem, ten miles west of 
 the court house (reached by Wisconsin Central R. R.). This 
 charity is the especial object of benevolence by Chicago's richest 
 German citizens. 
 
 The Home of the Aged is located at the corner of Harrison and 
 Throop streets, managed by the "Little Sisters of the Poor," 
 whose efforts on behalf of their aged charges are tireless and noble 
 to a degree. 
 
 Deaf-mutes are assisted by the School for the Deaf and Dumb, 
 409 May Street, on the West Side. This institution is managed 
 by the nuns of the Holy Heart of Mary, and is maintained by the 
 Ephpheta Society. 
 
 Orphan and Half-Orphan Asylums are numerous. 
 
 The Foundlings' Home, a noted charity, comprises two large 
 connected brick buildings, one three and the other five stories high. 
 It is located at 114 South Wood Street, and has a capacity for over 
 100 children. 
 
 The Chicago Home for the Friendless, at 1926 Wabash 
 Avenue, occupies handsome brick buildings containing four stories 
 and an attic. The interior is elaborate in its appointments, and 
 contains about 100 rooms. The institution is an important factor 
 in the social and moral conditions of Chicago. 
 
 The House of the Good Shepherd is an asylum and reform- 
 atory for women, girls, and female children. The good done by it 
 can not be overestimated. It is under the charge of the Sisters of 
 the Good Shepherd, and occupies a large inclosure — partly taken up 
 11 
 
152 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 by the building and partly by several yards — at the corner of 
 North Market and Hill streets. The institution is divided into 
 five departments, isolated from each other, as follows: The Pen- 
 ance Reformatory, for women; the Juvenile Reformatory, for 
 young girls; the Industrial School, the Magdalen Asylum, and 
 " Our Sisters' Community." There are accommodations for 400 
 inmates, and the institution is usually well filled. It has been the 
 means of reclaiming many, and there is no institution of Chicago 
 more deserving of kind words and active support. 
 
 Besides these, there are in the city more than a dozen orphan 
 asylums, industrial homes, and other institutions of the kind, all 
 of which are active and well supported. 
 
 For Women many sheltering doors are opened. Within the 
 limits of this guide it will suffice to mention the Erring Women s 
 Refuge, 5024 Indiana Avenue; the Good Samaritan Society, 151 
 Lincoln Avenue; the Home for Self-supporting Women, 275 Indi- 
 ana Street; the Home for Uneviployed Girls, Market Street, cor- 
 ner of Elm Street; the Home for Working Women, 189 East 
 Huron Street; the House of the Good Shepherd, North Market 
 Strv.et, corner of Hill Street; the Servile Sisters' Industrial Home 
 for Girls, 1 396 Van Buren Street; St. Joseph's Home, 409 May 
 Street, as doing excellent work and worthy of a visit, or a charita- 
 ble visitor's benevolence. 
 
 One of the great hindrances to working-women of the poverty- 
 burdened class, in any great city, is the care of their infants. To 
 relieve this. Day Nurseries have been established where mothers 
 may leave their babies, freely, or by paying a few cents, sure that 
 they will be well cared for — better, probably, than they could do it 
 themselves. One of these, the Margaret Etta Creche Kindogarten, 
 2356 Wabash Avenue, is well worth inspection, and is purely 
 dependent on the charitably inclined for its maintenance and 
 existence. 
 
 For the Young many institutions of benevolence exist in Chi- 
 cago; some of the most noteworthy being the Children's Home So- 
 ciety, office 230 La Salle Street; the Children's Hospital, 214 
 Humboldt Boulevard; the Daily Nexus Fresh Air Fund, 123 
 Fifth Avenue; the Chicago Nursery and Half Orphan Asylum^ 
 Burling Street, south of Center; the Orphan Asylum^ 22?8 Mich- 
 
BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS. 
 
 153 
 
 igan Avenue; the Danish Lutheran Orphans' Ho77ie, Maple- 
 wood (reached by Wisconsin Division of the Chicago & North- 
 western Railway); the Foundlings' Home, Wood Street, corner of 
 Ogden Place; the Home for the Friendless, *i()26 Wabash Avenue; 
 the Newsboys' Home, 1418 Wabash Avenue, and many others. 
 
 Humane Societies. — Belonging here are a group of agencies, 
 usually spoken of as the " prevention " or " humane " societies. 
 The principal of these, the Illinois Humane Society, has offices at 
 Room 43 Auditorium Building. Its managers and members include 
 many leading citizens, and the society is well supported both 
 financially and morally. It has a staff of officers who patrol the 
 streets and have power to make arrests, and whose badge is a 
 silver shield stamped with the seal and name of the society. It 
 also maintains ambulances in which disabled horses are removed 
 from any place where they may fall to a place where they may be 
 cured. 
 
 Those Who Receive Charity. — The following table will 
 show what nationalities are the heaviest receivers of charity and 
 to what an extent this city is being filled with foreign paupers: 
 
 Ratio of those receiving aid from County Agent's office for the 
 months of January, February, and March, 1892, according to 
 nationality and population from 5,000 and upward: 
 
 Nationality. 
 
 Americans (white and colored) 
 
 r 
 
 Bohemians and Poles -( 
 
 I 
 
 Canadians 
 
 English 
 
 French 
 
 Germans 
 
 Hollanders 
 
 Irish 
 
 Italians 
 
 Russians (Jews) 
 
 Scandinavians 
 
 Scotch 
 
 Popula- 
 tion. 
 
 Families 
 
 Families 
 
 Families 
 
 aided in 
 
 aided in 
 
 aided in 
 
 January. 
 
 Febr'aiy. 
 
 March. 
 
 292,463 
 
 428 
 
 374 
 
 333 
 
 54,200 
 
 187 
 
 203 
 
 209 
 
 52,756 
 
 326 
 
 324 
 
 301 
 
 106,965 
 
 513 
 
 527 
 
 510 
 
 6,689 
 
 38 
 
 33 
 
 32 
 
 33.783 
 
 96 
 
 87 
 
 82 
 
 12,963 
 
 21 
 
 22 
 
 22 
 
 384,958 
 
 6x6 
 
 614 
 
 601 
 
 4,912 
 
 22 
 
 28 
 
 31 
 
 215,534 
 
 635 
 
 648 
 
 617 
 
 9,921 
 
 42 
 
 33 
 
 38 
 
 9.997 
 
 72 
 
 80 
 
 91 
 
 104,293 
 
 257 
 
 253 
 
 260 
 
 11.297 
 
 16 
 
 29 
 
 24 
 
154 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 The Chicago Bureau of Justice, located at 149 La Salle 
 Street, was started in 1888, to secure justice for the helpless men, 
 women, or children. Supported by leading citizens, and employ- 
 ing the best legal talent, it is a most efficient instrument for the 
 recovery of small wage claims. 
 
 The fourth annual report for ten months, from March i, 1891, 
 to January l, 1892, shows that the collections, or wage claims, 
 were $8,204, as against $7,778 for the preceding twelve months, or 
 an increase of more than 25 per cent, for the latter over the 
 former period. This fact is partly explained by the difference in 
 the average of claims collected, which rose from $12.65 for the 
 fiscal year 1890-91 to $15.59 for the period under review — an ad- 
 vance of over 20 per cent. 
 
 The total number of cases attended to was 3,523, and the 
 entire amount of money collected, $9,877. There were 745 wage 
 claims, 219 cases of support for wives, 174 chattel mortgage mat- 
 ters, 135 cases of wrongful detention of personal property, and 
 158 cases arising out of relation of landlord and tenant. Among 
 the remaining cases were 61 in regard to wrongs to women 
 and girls. The bureau prosecuted 333 cases and defended 24. 
 
 From April 9, 1888, when the bureau opened its doors, until 
 December 31, 1891, there was collected in wages the sum of 
 $27,525. 
 
XVIII. 
 
 THE MARKETS OF THE CITY 
 (STOCK YARDS, ETC.) 
 
 Commerce and Manufactures. — While a commercial history 
 of the world would contain many stirring chapters, and record 
 much around which time has thrown a halo of romance, it would 
 relate no more marvelous story than that of the rise of Chicago's 
 greatness. The World's Fair City is more widely known to-day 
 than any other American commercial center, not excepting the 
 capital or the great Atlantic seaport. Its fame, as it has extended 
 to other countries, and probably throughout a large part of the 
 United States also, is, however, that of a great grain and Lve-stock 
 market only, the importance of its lumber trade and the extent of 
 its manufacturing industries being, for obvious reasons, less 
 widely known. Meat packing is the oldest of Chicago's indus- 
 tries. In the fall of 1832 G. W. Dole slaughtered the first lot of 
 cattle ever packed in Chicago. They numbered 209 head, and 
 cost $2.75 per cwt. About 359 hogs, costing $3 percwt., were 
 slaughtered and packed at the same time. Forty-eight years 
 later, in 1880, the city received within twelve months no fewer 
 than 7,059,355 live hogs, 1,382, 477 cattle, and 335,810 sheep; but 
 the proportion of the hog products of the country handled by 
 Chicago has kept on increasing, while a great increase has also 
 taken place in its receipts of cattle and sheep. In 1891 the 
 figures were 8,600,805 hogs, 3,455,742 cattle, and 2,153,537 
 sheep, the total value being estimated at $239,434,777. The ship- 
 ments for the same period were 2,962,514 live hogs, 122,185 
 dressed hogs, 1,066,264 cattle, 688,205 sheep, 877,297,875 lbs. of 
 dressed beef^ 278,044 barrels of pork, 362,109,199 lbs. of lard, 
 198,571,824 lbs. of hides, and 57,189,677 lbs. of wool. 
 
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MAkKETS, STOCK YARDS, ETC. 15^ 
 
 The Union Stock Yards, in which this enormous business 
 centers, cover no less than 400 acres of ground. In 3,300 pens, 
 1,800 covered and 1,500 open, provision is made for handling at 
 one time 25,000 head of cattle, 14,000 sheep, and 150,000 hogs. 
 The yards contain twenty miles of streets, twenty miles of water 
 troughs, fifty miles of feeding troughs, and seventy-five miles of 
 water and drainage pipes. Artesian wells, having an average 
 depth of 1,230 feet, afford an abundant supply of water. There 
 are also eighty-seven miles of railroad tracks, all the great roads 
 having access to this vast market. The entire cost was $4,000,- 
 000. About 1,200 men are employed at the Stock Yards proper. 
 In 1892, 3.571,790 cattle, 7, 714,435 hogs, 2,145,079 sheep, 197,576 
 calves, and 86,998 horses were received at the Yards in 309,901 
 cars, being of an aggregate value of $253,836,502. 
 
 The meat-packing industry is carried on in immediate prox- 
 imity to the Stock Yards. The extent of its operations having 
 already been stated, it is only necessary to add that a single 
 business, that controlled by Messrs. Armour & Co., occupies 
 seventy acres of flooring and employs about 4,000 men. These 
 Stock Yards and packing houses (the former free, the latter usually 
 shown to visitors upon application) can be reached by rail from 
 Van Buren Street depot (trains infrequent), or by State Street cable 
 or South Halsted Street horse cars. Some i8,oco to 25,000 men 
 are daily employed in the various packing houses, varying accord- 
 ing to the season of the year. 
 
 Chicago, from its admirable geographical situation, is the 
 natural depot for the exchange of the products and commodities 
 of the East and the West; into her elevators pour the harvests 
 from the vast wheat fields of the Northwest, and in her markets 
 they are exchanged for the manufactures of the East and the im- 
 portations from foreign countries — and Chicago reaps the benefits 
 of exchange. 
 
 The first shipment of wheat from Chicago took place in 1839. 
 In 1842 the shipments were 586,907 bushels. In 1848 the 
 amount had risen to 2, 160,000 bushels, and in 1855, after the open- 
 ing of railroads to the East, to 21,583,221 bushels of grain, about 
 two-thirds of which consisted of wheat. In the year 1891 the total 
 receipts of breadstuff s were no less than 231,821,529 bushels, val- 
 
158 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 ued at about $136,040,000, and the shipments 207,988,862 bush- 
 els. There are twenty-seven registered grain elevators, with an 
 aggregate capacity of 30,075,000 bushels. 
 
 The lumber receipts in 1891 were 2,045,418,000 feet, and the 
 shipments 865,949,000 feet. The number of shingles received 
 was 303,895,000, and the total shipment was 99,855,000. The 
 lumber district lies south of Twenty-second Street, between Hal- 
 sted Street and Ashland Avenue, its western limits being near 
 the West Side Water-works. 
 
 At the close of 1891 there were in the city 3,250 manufactur- 
 ing establishments, excluding those of food products. The num- 
 ber of employes was 177,000, their wages amounting to $96,200,- 
 000. The capital employed was $190,000,000, and the value of 
 their products was estimated at $555,000,000. 
 
 The entire trade of the city in 1891 was estimated by the Chi- 
 cago Tribune at $1,459,000,000, 
 
 There are 6 rolling mills, 28 foundries, 89 machinery and 
 boiler works, and 70 galvanic iron, tin, and slate roofing works. 
 
 The Board of Trade. 
 
 The new building of this organization is situated at the foot 
 of La Salle Street, between Jackson and Van Buren streets. It 
 is a unique granite structure, covering a space of 225 feet by 174 
 feet, and surmounted by a tower tapering into a pinnacle 304 
 feet above the pavement. This tower is surrounded, at an alti- 
 tude of 200 feet, by a look-out balcony, which is not open to vis- 
 itors. The massive building, crowned with its lofty tower and 
 surmounted with a unique weather-vane — a ship in full sail — is 
 one of the city's most prominent landmarks, being visible to ves- 
 sels bound for this port at a great distance out in Lake Michigan. 
 
 The interior is very elaborate, especially the great trading hall 
 of the Board, which occupies a space of 175 feet by 155 feet, and 
 is 80 feet high, with a glass ceiling 70 feet by 80 feet. 
 
 The Board of Trade, founded in 1848, and incorporated in 
 1850, with thirteen subscribers, has increased to nearly 2,000 mem- 
 bers, paying each an annual assessment of $75. The admission 
 fee, starting at $5, has been raised from time to time until it is 
 now $10,000. Memberships are transferable, however, and com- 
 
MARKETS, STOCK YARDS, ETC. 
 
 159 
 
 mand from $2,500 to $5,000. The business transacted is con- 
 fined to farm products, and is, of course, largely speculative, the 
 visible supplies of the country being sold many times over in a 
 
 Board of Trade Building, foot of La Salle Street, between Jackson and Van Buren. 
 
 season. The Board Clearing House statement of 1891 shows 
 clearings of $104,083,529.67. Transactions are permitted in lots 
 of not less than 1,000 bushels of grain or 250 barrels of pork. 
 
l6o fJANDY GUIDE TO CHICACO. 
 
 Visitors are admitted free to the gallery during business hours. 
 
 The old Chamber of Commerce Building, at the corner of I-a 
 Salle and Washington streets, is now given over to offices. 
 
 Grain Market. — All cereals, such as grain, wheat, corn, 
 oats, rye, and buckwheat, are handled by the Board of Trade 
 operators, who buy, sell, ship, or store whatever amount may be 
 offered by the producers at any time of the year. 
 
 Fruit and Vegetable Market. — Few cities are so well sup- 
 plied as Chicago is in the matter of edible fruits and vegetables. 
 Half a dozen blocks on South Water Street, from Wabash Avenue 
 westward, is the particular locality of this thriving industry, and 
 here in the early morning, and, indeed, all daylong, arrive during 
 their proper seasons and from every port of the continent vast 
 consignments of perishable wares. Crates, barrels, boxes, and 
 baskets of all sizes, shapes, and descriptions are heaped upon the 
 sidewalk in front of the commission dealer's store, speedily finding 
 their way by his efforts to the numerous groceries and meat 
 markets through the city. 
 
 The Market Wagon Stand is located in the Haymarket 
 Square, on Randolph Street, between Halsted and Desplaines 
 streets, on the West Side, and is occupied by farmers who drive 
 in from the surrounding suburban districts, marketing their truck 
 from their own wagons for the purpose of avoiding the middle- 
 man's profits. Being the only place in the city where the producer 
 and the consumer deal direct, it is well worth a visit in the early 
 part of any week-day. The Police Monument is here (see Chap- 
 ter XIII). 
 
The McMichae/ Saniiarium. 
 
 This institution, located at 311 1 Indiana Avenue, was founded 
 for the treatment of patients suffering from cancer, tumors, and 
 all forms of abnormal growths. The unique method of treatment 
 employed by the physicians who stand at the head of the sani- 
 tarium is the outcome 
 of years of special 
 study devoted to one 
 class of diseases. 
 
 The chief charac- 
 teristic of the method 
 is its radical depart- 
 ure from those 
 usually employed for 
 the treatment of this 
 disease, and the 
 abandonment of irri- 
 tating caustics and 
 all applications that 
 have a tendency to ex- 
 cite the growth of ab- 
 normal tissues. The 
 whole aim of the treat- 
 ment is to allay all irri- 
 tation, and reduce the 
 vitality of the para- 
 sitic growth to a point 
 where it can be over- 
 come by carefully 
 selected remedies. 
 The greater mass 
 
 The McMichael Sanitarium, 3111 Indiana Avenue. 
 For Cancers and Tumors. 
 
 of the disease is removed by the application of chemicals, after 
 which the surface of the sore and the underlying parts are kept 
 in such a condition, by the application of medicines, that little 
 or no resistance is given to the migration of the cells toward the 
 open sore. The sound flesh yields less readily to the passage of 
 the migrating cells, and these, like any other force, following lines 
 of least resistance, come to the surface. 
 
 In a few days their presence is revealed to the naked eye by 
 
the changes of the tints in different spots on the surface of the 
 sore. Medicines are again applied and the process repeated till 
 all disease is removed and the patient is out of danger. The 
 changing conditions, and the wide range of cases under treament, 
 render necessary the use of nearly all the remedies employed by 
 the medical profession. And it is the careful selection of the 
 proper remedy at the right time that brings to the method such a 
 large measure of success. The circulars of the institution, which 
 are sent upon application, give a detailed description of the method 
 employed. The management have, with the utmost care, pre- 
 pared reports of cases, giving the names and addresses of the 
 patients, and showing, in a number of instances, how repeated 
 surgical operations had failed to benefit, and yet cures were per- 
 formed by the new method. 
 
 In writing for these reports it will be well, also, to send names 
 of friends who would be interested. 
 
 Owing to the increased demand for such treatment, the 
 McMichael Sanitarium has been constantly forced to increase its 
 facilities. The building now occupied by the institution is 
 delightfully located in the residence portion of the city, convenient 
 to all lines of transit on the South Side. It is fully equipped 
 with every facility for handling the cases intrusted to it, and every 
 convenience for the care and comfort of its patients. 
 
 The need of what is known as the humane treatment of cancer 
 has been demonstrated, and the plan of the sanitarium is to bring 
 more completely to the notice of the public the need of such an 
 institution. This it is rapidly accomplishing. Not a week passes 
 without some patient who has been pronounced as suffering from 
 a case of cancer being restored to health and vigor, and if the 
 cancer has not involved vital parts, the institution will undertake 
 its cure, no matter how fully developed the growth is. 
 
 LaFayette D. McMichael, M. D., and Orville W. McMichael, 
 M. D., are at the head of the sanitarium. Their joint labors are 
 productive of much good to the reputation of the institution, which 
 is rapidly forging its way to the front rank. The physicians have 
 long made a special study of tumors and cancerous growths, and 
 now devote themselves wholly to that specialty. Their reputation 
 has become established, and patients come to them from all parts 
 of the country. Office of Sanitarium, 102 1 Masonic Temple. 
 
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HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 163 
 
 STREETS AND AVENUES. 
 
 EXP1.ANAT0RT. 
 
 The letters and figures following the names of streets are given to ascertain 
 their location on the map. Take, for example, Aberdeen, N-23. 
 
 On each eide of the map are figures reading downward, and along the 
 margin, top and bottom, are the letters of the alphabet, reading from left 
 to right. N-23 refers to that point on the map where lines, if drawn from 
 23 to 23 east and west, and from N to N north and south, would intersect 
 each other at right angles; Aberdeen would be found at such intersection. 
 
 In this way any place or building in the city may be located, if two inter- 
 secting streets in the vicinity are known. For example : The West Division 
 Water Tower and Pumping Station are at Twenty-second street and Ashland 
 avenue. In the street directory it will be found that Ashland avenue is 
 noted as M-30. Referring on the map to the letter M, and drawing a line to 
 the level of the figure 30 at the sides of the map, it will be found that this 
 avenue runs north and south, merging into North Ashland avenue at Ran- 
 dolph street. Twenty-aecond street may be traced in the same way and the 
 intersection found. 
 
 ABBREVIATIONS. 
 
 av Avenue . 
 
 bd Boulevard. 
 
 ct Court. 
 
 fr From. 
 
 N North. 
 
 pi Place. 
 
 rd Road. 
 
 S South. 
 
 sq Square. 
 
 W West. 
 
 STREETS AND AVENUES. 
 
 A M n 
 
 Abbott ct O 15 
 
 Aberdeen N 23 
 
 Aberdeen Ave Y 54 
 
 Ada,N M 22 
 
 Ada M 42 
 
 Adams P 23 
 
 Adams E 12 
 
 Adams Ave T 40 
 
 Adams, W K 23 
 
 Addison K 14 
 
 Addison Ave T 38 
 
 Adelaide Are K 14 
 
 Adelaide Ct F 27 
 
 Adele Ave J 31 
 
 Alaska O 19 
 
 Albany Ave I 24 
 
 Albany Ave., N I 22 
 
 Albany Ave I 42 
 
 Albert . M 26 
 
 Aldine O 14 
 
 Aldiue R 30 
 
 Aldine Sq R 30 
 
 Alexander P 27 
 
 Alexander Ave N 12 
 
 Alice Ct K 18 
 
 Alice Ave V 55 
 
 Alice PI ^17 
 
 Allen Ave w 51 
 
 Allen Ave H 15 
 
 Almond K 24 
 
 Alport M 26 
 
 Ambrose K 27 
 
 Anderson H 32 
 
 Andrew Ave H 12 
 
 Ann N 22 
 
 Ann, N N 22 
 
 Anna Ave K 14 
 
 Anna PI L 50 
 
 Anthony Ave T 40 
 
 Antoinette G 48 
 
 Arboar PI M 22 
 
 Arcade Ct P 23 
 
 Arch M 28 
 
 Archer Ave K 30 
 
 Ardmore Ave N 8 
 
 Argyle M 10 
 
 Argyle Ave Y 54 
 
 Arlington Ave K 48 
 
 Armida Ave K 49 
 
 Armitage Ave K 17 
 
 Armitage Ct I 18 
 
 Armour M 21 
 
 Armour Ave P 26 
 
 Arnold P 40 
 
 Artesian Ave J 22 
 
 Arthington M 24 
 
 Arthur O 26 
 
 Arthur Ave X 49 
 
 Ash b 13 
 
 Ash J 29 
 
 Ashford Ave E 18 
 
 Ashkum Ave W 44 
 
 Ashland K 24 
 
 Ashland Ave E 11 
 
 Ashland Ave M 30 
 
 Ashland Ave., N..M 20 
 
 Ashland Bd M 26 
 
 Ashland Ct M 21 
 
 Ashton N 43 
 
 Ashton I 44 
 
 Ashton J 44 
 
 Ashton PI J 44 
 
 Astor (i, 19 
 
 Atlantic P 32 
 
 Atlantic Ave H 37 
 
 Attica N 29 
 
 Attrill J 17 
 
i64 
 
 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 Streets and Avenues—Continued. 
 
 Atwood Ave G 50 
 
 Auburn N 29 
 
 Auburn Ave O 40 
 
 Auburn Ave O 41 
 
 Augusta K 20 
 
 Austin b 14 
 
 Austin Ave M 21 
 
 Austin Ave B 16 
 
 Ave. A Z 50 
 
 Ave.B Z 46 
 
 Ave.C Z 46 
 
 Ave. D Z 47 
 
 Ave. E Z 47 
 
 Ave. P Z 47 
 
 Ave. G Z 47 
 
 Ave.H Z 47 
 
 Ave. I Z 48 
 
 Ave. J Y 47 
 
 Ave.K Y47 
 
 Ave.L Y 47 
 
 Ave. M Y 47 
 
 Ave. N Y 50 
 
 Ave. O Y 50 
 
 Avers Ave G 28 
 
 Avers Ave G 34 
 
 Avon J 47 
 
 Avon Ave J 37 
 
 Avon PI K 23 
 
 Avondale Ave I 14 
 
 Ayers Ave G 21 
 
 Ayres Ct M 21 
 
 B M 17 
 
 Baker Ave O 32 
 
 Baldwin L 21 
 
 Baldwin Ave W 40 
 
 Ball PI L44 
 
 Ballon . H 17 
 
 Baltic P 33 
 
 Baltimore Ave X 42 
 
 Banks Q 19 
 
 Barber O 25 
 
 Barclay . I 20 
 
 BarkleyAve X 49 
 
 Barry Ave. O 15 
 
 Bartlett Ave H 19 
 
 Basil Ave I 18 
 
 Bassett M 36 
 
 Bates P 25 
 
 Baawans L 19 
 
 Baxter N 15 
 
 Bayson F 19 
 
 Beach P 24 
 
 Beach Ave H 19 
 
 BeckCt H 45 
 
 Beethoven PI P 19 
 
 BeiaenAve Q 17 
 
 Belden Ave H 17 
 
 Belden Ave M 17 
 
 Belden PI O 17 
 
 Belder Ave E 17 
 
 Belknap N 24 
 
 Bell Ave G 18 
 
 Belle vue Ave b 7 
 
 Bellevue PI Q 20 
 
 Belle Plaine Ave...K 12 
 
 Belmont Ave E 11 
 
 Belmont Ave K 47 
 
 Belmont Ave M 14 
 
 Benson M 29 
 
 Benton PI Q 22 
 
 Berg PI L 16 
 
 Berkeley K 49 
 
 Berkeley Ave S 31 
 
 Berksnire Ave H 49 
 
 Berlin K 17 
 
 Bernard H 14 
 
 Berrien M 54 
 
 Berteau Ave K 12 
 
 Berwyn Ave N 9 
 
 Best Ave N 16 
 
 Better N 24 
 
 Bickerdike M 21 
 
 BickerdikeSq M 21 
 
 Bingham J 17 
 
 Binzo L 17 
 
 Birch K 24 
 
 Birch Ave V 55 
 
 Birdsall J 52 
 
 Bishop M 34 
 
 Bishop Ct M 22 
 
 Bismarck Ave... .Y 54 
 
 Bismarck Ct M 21 
 
 Bissell Ave W 39 
 
 Bissell N 18 
 
 Bissell Ave U 42 
 
 Bixby PI M 21 
 
 Blackhawk O 19 
 
 Blackwell N 33 
 
 Blackwell P 26 
 
 Blaine J 27 
 
 Blaine Ct M 23 
 
 Blair O 26 
 
 Blake K 30 
 
 Blanchard Ave....M 36 
 
 BlanchardPl Q 27 
 
 Blanche M 19 
 
 Bliss N 20 
 
 Block O 18 
 
 Bloom L 30 
 
 Bloomingdale Ave.P 55 
 Bloom ingdale Rd..L 18 
 
 Blucher L 19 
 
 Blucher N 15 
 
 Blue Island Ave. . M 26 
 Blue Island Ave. . . O 54 
 Blue Island Ave . . . P 55 
 
 Blue Island Rd....Q 52 
 
 Boardman K 30 
 
 Boardman PI M 16 
 
 Boilvin Ave E 35 
 
 Bonaparte M 28 
 
 Bond E 13 
 
 Bond G 40 
 
 Bond Ave X 40 
 
 Bonfield N 28 
 
 Bonney Ave G 26 
 
 Boomer P 31 
 
 Boone K 24 
 
 BorsoPl K 48 
 
 Boston Ave E 35 
 
 Boston Ave O 23 
 
 Bosworth Ave M 14 
 
 Boulevard O BO 
 
 Boulevard Q 21 
 
 Boulevard PI K 32 
 
 Boulevard Way I 27 
 
 Boursauld Ave — K 12 
 
 Bowen Ave R 31 
 
 Bowery, The...*.. N 23 
 
 Bowman K 41 
 
 Bowman Ave . . . . I 12 
 
 Brackett... Q 37 
 
 Bradley ...M 19 
 
 Bradley PI N 13 
 
 Brand L 16 
 
 Brand O 35 
 
 Brand Ave H 15 
 
 Breckenridge Ave. .D 18 
 
 Breslau K 17 
 
 Briar PI O 15 
 
 Brigham L J9 
 
 Bristol P 32 
 
 Bristol Ave F 20 
 
 Broad M 28 
 
 Broadway K 54 
 
 Brompton Ave O 14 
 
 Bronson M 33 
 
 Brookfield Ave. . . . M 35 
 
 Brooks Ave P 42 
 
 Brooks Ave T 40 
 
 Broom L 21 
 
 Bross Ave J 29 
 
 Brown N 25 
 
 Brunswick Ave H 15 
 
 Bryant R 30 
 
 Bryn Mawr Ave. . . M 9 
 
 Buchanan H 32 
 
 Buena Ave N 12 
 
 BuenaPk. Ter . . N 12 
 Buena Vista P1....0 27 
 
 Buffalo Ave .Y 55 
 
 Bunker O 24 
 
 Burchell Ave fl 17 
 
 Burchell Ave I 16 
 
 Burling O 18 
 
 Burlington ,.Q 26 
 
HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 165 
 
 Streets and Avenues— Continued. 
 
 Burneide P 40 
 
 Burii8ide Ave R 44 
 
 Burr Oak Ave K 52 
 
 Burtis K 33 
 
 Burton PI P 19 
 
 Bush Ave V 55 
 
 Butler O 51 
 
 Byford Ave H 25 
 
 Byrne Ave H 15 
 
 Byron L 13 
 
 Byron Ave I 17 
 
 C M 17 
 
 Calhoun Ave W 4« 
 
 Calhoun PI P 22 
 
 California Ave J 24 
 
 California Avo H 46 
 
 California Ave., N.. J 19 
 
 Calumet M 54 
 
 Calumet Ave Q 32 
 
 Calumet Ave K 51 
 
 Campbell ,...L 28 
 
 Campbell Ave. ... .J 25 
 Campbell Ave., N..J 24 
 
 Campbell PI P 21 
 
 Canal O 24 
 
 Canal K 54 
 
 Canal O 44 
 
 Canal, N O 22 
 
 Canal PI M 17 
 
 Canalport Ave O 26 
 
 Carl P 19 
 
 CarlinAve W 40 
 
 Carlson Q 51 
 
 Caroline G 48 
 
 Carondelet X 50 
 
 Carpenter N 36 
 
 Carpenter, N. . . . . .N 21 
 
 Carroll G 15 
 
 Carroll Ave K 23 
 
 Cass M 54 
 
 Cass ti2l 
 
 Castello Ave K 17 
 
 CastelloAve G 17 
 
 Castle F 20 
 
 CatalnaPl I 17 
 
 CatalphaPl M 12 
 
 Cedar G 40 
 
 Cedar P 36 
 
 Cedar C^ 20 
 
 Cedar X 49 
 
 Centennial PI L 21 
 
 Central Ave a 18 
 
 Central Ave Q, 22 
 
 Central Ave. V 42 
 
 Cent r:il Park Ave. . G 19 
 Central Park Ave . . II 20 
 
 Central Park BouL.I 21 
 
 Centre F 12 
 
 Centre L 10 
 
 Centre M 13 
 
 Centre M 48 
 
 Centre N 17 
 
 Centre O 15 
 
 Centre Ave I 15 
 
 Centre Ave G 50 
 
 Centre Ave N 24 
 
 Centre Ave X 49 
 
 Centre Ave., N N 21 
 
 Ch^dwick M 55 
 
 Chambers Ave X 49 
 
 Champlain K 30 
 
 Champlain Ave M r4 
 
 Champlain Ave R 38 
 
 Chanay J 17 
 
 Chapel Ave J 45 
 
 Chapin H 14 
 
 Chapin M 20 
 
 Chappel PI S 32 
 
 Charles O 23 
 
 Charles X 49 
 
 Charles PI P 23 
 
 Charlotte G 24 
 
 Charlotte Ave.... D 17 
 
 Charlton M 29 
 
 Chase M 20 
 
 ChaseAve G 18 
 
 Chase Ave H 46 
 
 Chase Ct K 27 
 
 Chatham K 55 
 
 Chatham Ct O 20 
 
 Chaunccy Ave. ..T 41 
 Cheltenham Ave..Y 4i 
 Cheltenham PI ...X 40 
 
 Cheney F 10 
 
 Cherry G 40 
 
 Cherry L 50 
 
 Cherry Ave N 19 
 
 Cherry PI J 17 
 
 Chestnut D 18 
 
 Chestnut D 21 
 
 Chestnut I 34 
 
 Chestnut P 36 
 
 Chestnut Q, 21 
 
 Chestnut Ave G 48 
 
 Chestnut PI Q 20 
 
 Chicago K 54 
 
 Chicago Ave O 20 
 
 Chicago Ave K 55 
 
 Chicago Ave X 54 
 
 Chicago Ave., W..N 20 
 
 Chipiiewa Ave I 41 
 
 Choctaw Ave 141 
 
 Christiana Ave. ...H 20 
 
 Christopher G 32 
 
 Church M 47 
 
 Church PI M 28 
 
 Church PI N 23 
 
 Churchill K 18 
 
 Cicero Ct J 23 
 
 Clara PI J 17 
 
 Clare Ave L 50 
 
 Claremont N 9 
 
 Claremont A\e K 10 
 
 Claremont Ave K 24 
 
 Clarence F 24 
 
 Clarence Ave N 13 
 
 Clarinda L 20 
 
 Clark H 45 
 
 Clark O 29 
 
 Clark P 51 
 
 Clark Ave V 44 
 
 Clark, N P 21 
 
 Clarkson Ave I 18 
 
 ClarksonCt I 22 
 
 Clay N 18 
 
 Clay Ave J 10 
 
 Clayton K 34 
 
 Clayton N 26 
 
 Cleaver M 20 
 
 Cleveland Ave E 35 
 
 Cleveland Ave F 19 
 
 Cleveland Ave F 20 
 
 Cleveland Ave O 18 
 
 Clifton F 27 
 
 Clifton Ave J 44 
 
 Clifton Ave N 15 
 
 Clifton Ave I 16 
 
 Clifton Park Ave.. H 26 
 
 Clinton M 45 
 
 Clinton O 44 
 
 Clinton Ave . . I 34 
 
 Clinton, N O 22 
 
 Cloud Ave V 44 
 
 Cloud Ct P 35 
 
 Clybourn Ave N 18 
 
 Clybourn PI M 18 
 
 (JlybournPl., W...Ii 18 
 
 Clyde N 18 
 
 Coblentz K 17 
 
 Cochrane J 52 
 
 Coles Ave, W 39 
 
 ("olfax Ave R 37 
 
 Colfax Ave V 50 
 
 Colfax Ave W 42 
 
 College K 44 
 
 College PI R 29 
 
 Collir.s I 25 
 
 Collins Ct K 27 
 
 C )!ogne N 27 
 
 Colonade Row I> 54 
 
 Colorado Ave I 23 
 
 Colton K 41 
 
 Columbia K 18 
 
 Cohimbia Ave. ... E IH 
 
 ColHml)ia Ave G 47 
 
 Columbia PI G 22 
 
1 66 
 
 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 Streets and Avenues— Continued. 
 
 Columbus Ave J 39 
 
 Commercial L 16 
 
 Commercial L 18 
 
 Commercial Ave. . .X 42 
 
 Concord L 54 
 
 Concord O 33 
 
 Concord ri N 18 
 
 Congress .P 23 
 
 Congress, W L 23 
 
 Conneaut J 16 
 
 Connors O 19 
 
 Conrad O 26 
 
 Constance Ave U 42 
 
 Cook G 15 
 
 Cook I 13 
 
 Cook M 33 
 
 Cook O 21 
 
 Cooper K 37 
 
 Cooper M 17 
 
 Cornelia J 17 
 
 Cornelia M 20 
 
 Cornelia N 14 
 
 Cornelius P 47 
 
 Cornell M 20 
 
 Cornell Are U 34 
 
 Cortez I 20 
 
 Cortland b 18 
 
 Cortland K 18 
 
 Cortland Ct I 18 
 
 Corwin L 25 
 
 CorwinPl ...L 27 
 
 Cottage Grove Ave. R 34 
 
 Couch PI P 22 
 
 Coulter K 27 
 
 Court M 48 
 
 Court R 38 
 
 Court PI P 22 
 
 Court PI P 38 
 
 Coveutrj' M 18 
 
 Craft N 14 
 
 Crawford Ave G 26 
 
 Crawford Ave G 40 
 
 Crawford Ave.. N.G 20 
 
 Cregier Ave U 3!) 
 
 Crescent Ave K 48 
 
 Crittenden M 20 
 
 Crittenden Rd X 51 
 
 Crooked M 17 
 
 Crosby O 20 
 
 Cross H 23 
 
 Crossin<^ L 18 
 
 Crowell J 17 
 
 Crown PI J 28 
 
 Crystal K 19 
 
 Currier M 20 
 
 Curtis N 22 
 
 Curtis, N N 22 
 
 CustabAve E 4 
 
 Custer Ave I 41 
 
 Custom House P1..P 25 
 
 Cuvler Ave L 12 
 
 Cynthia Ct H 26 
 
 Cypress K 24 
 
 Dakin N 13 
 
 Dale PI L 27 
 
 Daly J 30 
 
 Damon N 24 
 
 Danford X 48 
 
 Danforth C 10 
 
 Danla Ave J 19 
 
 Dani.l PI E 19 
 
 Daniels H 32 
 
 Dauphin Ave S 44 
 
 Davis K 19 
 
 Davis K 37 
 
 Dawson Ave H 15 
 
 Day X 50 
 
 Day Ave W 41 
 
 Dayton N 19 
 
 l>ean ...L 19 
 
 Dearborn P 27 
 
 Dearborn Ave P 19 
 
 Decatur Ave H 48 
 
 Deering M 28 
 
 De Kalb K 24 
 
 De Koven O 24 
 
 Delaware Ave F 27 
 
 Delaware PI Q 20 
 
 Deming Ct O Ki 
 
 Desplaines K 54 
 
 Desplaines O 22 
 
 Desplaincs O 34 
 
 Desplaines O 50 
 
 Desplaincs, N.... .0 21 
 
 Devonshire K 5 1 
 
 Dewey Ct O 16 
 
 Dewey PI L 44 
 
 Dexter Ave O 32 
 
 Diana..'. O .'"0 
 
 Dickens Ave I 17 
 
 Dickey O 37 
 
 Dickey Ave II 19 
 
 Dickson M 19 
 
 Dieden M 20 
 
 Diller K 22 
 
 Diversey Ave M 10 
 
 Division I 53 
 
 Division K 54 
 
 Division N 19 
 
 Division, W H 19 
 
 Dix N 20 
 
 Dobbins Ave N 45 
 
 Dobson Ave S 40 
 
 Dock (i 22 
 
 Doflge 1' 25 
 
 Dolton Ave R .54 
 
 Dominick M 17 
 
 Dor Pi G 19 
 
 Douglas E 13 
 
 Douglas Ave Y 51 
 
 Douglas ParkBoul.lI 25 
 Douglas Park PI. ...J 25 
 
 Drake Ave H 21 
 
 Dresden B 18 
 
 DresdinAve II 15 
 
 Drew L 48 
 
 Drexel Ave S 37 
 
 DrexelBoul S 32 
 
 Drive T 45 
 
 Dryburg G 32 
 
 Duane L 50 
 
 Duncan Ave W 40 
 
 Dunn O 21 
 
 Dunning N IG 
 
 Durham Ave E J8 
 
 Dussold O 25 
 
 Dwight D 10 
 
 Dyer C 10 
 
 Eagle O 22 
 
 Earl Ave U 40 
 
 Early Ave M 8 
 
 East" Ave D 10 
 
 East Ct O 15 
 
 East End Ave U 35 
 
 Eastern Ave G 50 
 
 Eastern Ave I 88 
 
 Eastman N 19 
 
 Eastman P 31 
 
 East River X 50 
 
 Eastwood Ave N 11 
 
 Eberhard Ave H 37 
 
 Eberhart II 19 
 
 EberlyAve H 15 
 
 Ebuda K 48 
 
 Eda Q, 30 
 
 EdbrookPl J 17 
 
 Eddy X 14 
 
 Edgar L 18 
 
 Edgerton Ave T 36 
 
 EdgecombCt N 12 
 
 Edge water Ave M 8 
 
 Edgewood Ave.... I 17 
 
 Edson Ave N 16 
 
 Edward O 17 
 
 Edwards C 10 
 
 Edwards Ave X 41 
 
 Egerton Ave N 3S 
 
 Egglcsfon Ave P 40 
 
 Eighteenth P 26 
 
 Ri<,dilwntli I'L, W.N 26 
 
 F,i-i)1.riitii, W L 26 
 
 Eighth Ave Z 46 
 
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 Eightieth S 41 
 
 Eightieth Ct G 41 
 
 Eightieth Ct X 41 
 
 Eighty-first S 41 
 
 Eighty-first PI S 41 
 
 Eighty-second S 41 
 
 Eighty-second P1..S 41 
 
 Eighty-third U 42 
 
 Eighty -third Ct....O 41 
 Eighty-third P1....G 42 
 
 Eighty-fourth U 42 
 
 Eighty -fourth PI. . . G 42 
 
 Eighty-fifth U 42 
 
 Eighty-fifth PI G 42 
 
 Eighty-sixth U 42 
 
 Eighty-sixth PI G 42 
 
 Eighty -sixth PI .. . N 42 
 
 Eighty-seventh V 42 
 
 Eighty-seventh P1..S 43 
 
 Eighty-eighth V 43 
 
 Eighty-eighth PI. . . S 43 
 
 Eighty-ninth V 43 
 
 Eighty -ninth PI .... S 43 
 
 Elaine O 14 
 
 Elbridge Ave H 15 
 
 Elburn Ave.. M 24 
 
 Elderrin C 10 
 
 Eldorado H 46 
 
 EldredgeAv H 45 
 
 EldredgeCl Q 24 
 
 Eleventh, W M 24 
 
 Elgin P 26 
 
 EliasCt M 28 
 
 Elizabeth H 46 
 
 Elizabeth M 42 
 
 Elizabeth M 22 
 
 Elizabeth O 34 
 
 Elizabeth Ave V 42 
 
 Elk L 19 
 
 ElkgroveAve L 18 
 
 Ellen L 19 
 
 Ellen N 38 
 
 Ellington Ave V 39 
 
 Elliott Ave U 41 
 
 Ellis Ave S 35 
 
 Ellis Park R 30 
 
 Ellsworth P 24 
 
 Elm a 13 
 
 Elm D 9 
 
 Elm D 21 
 
 Elm G 10 
 
 Elm G 40 
 
 Elm N 47 
 
 Elm P 20 
 
 Elm PI H 45 
 
 Elmwood PI R 30 
 
 Elston Ave LIT 
 
 Elwood L 19 
 
 Emerald F 19 
 
 Emerald O 38 
 
 Emerald Ave H 48 
 
 Emerald Ave O 30 
 
 Emerson Ave K 21 
 
 Emery H 20 
 
 Emily ...L 20 
 
 Emma M 20 
 
 Emmett E 33 
 
 Ems K 17 
 
 Englewood H 36 
 
 Englewood Ave — G 36 
 Englewood Ave.. .O 36 
 
 Erie H 13 
 
 Erie P 21 
 
 Erie Ave... X 44 
 
 Erie, W M 21 
 
 Erina E 33 
 
 Ermena K 47 
 
 Ernst Ave M 7 
 
 Escanaba X 44 
 
 Esmond L 49 
 
 Essex Ave W 42 
 
 Estman C 10 
 
 Euclid Ave M 7 
 
 Euclid Ave H 49 
 
 Eugenie O 18 
 
 Evans Ave R 33 
 
 Evans Ct O 26 
 
 Evanston Ave — O 14 
 
 Everett C 10 
 
 Everett F 13 
 
 Everett Ave S 37 
 
 Evergreen L 19 
 
 Evergreen Ave. . . H 16 
 
 Evergreen Ave J 19 
 
 Evergreen Ave K 19 
 
 Everts Ave L 31 
 
 Ewing O 24 
 
 Ewing Ave Z 46 
 
 Ewing PI K 19 
 
 Exchange Ave N 31 
 
 Exchange Ave X 44 
 
 Fairfield Ave J 25 
 
 Fairfield Ave , N...J 19 
 
 Fairmount Ave P 27 
 
 Fairview B 18 
 
 Fairview Ave. ... ..J 16 
 
 Fairview Ave J 47 
 
 Kairview PI J 45 
 
 Fake M 28 
 
 l-^all J 22 
 
 Farmer M 49 
 
 Farragut Ave M 9 
 
 Farrell N 28 
 
 Fay E 12 
 
 Fay N 21 
 
 Fayette Ct M 24 
 
 Ferdinand K 21 
 
 Ferry b 18 
 
 Fifteenth P 25 
 
 Fifteenth, W L 25 
 
 Fifth Ave P 23 
 
 Fiftieth D 17 
 
 Fiftieth S 33 
 
 Fiftieth Ct R 33 
 
 Fiftieth PI D 17 
 
 Fifty -first S 34 
 
 Fifty -first Ct N 34 
 
 Fifty-second S 34 
 
 Fifty-third S 34 
 
 Fifty -third Ct U 34 
 
 Fifty-fourth S 34 
 
 Fifty-fourth PI S 34 
 
 Fifty -fifth S 35 
 
 Fifty -fifth PI G 35 
 
 Fifty-sixth S 35 
 
 Fifty-sixth PI O 35 
 
 Fifty-seventh ....S 35 
 Fifty-seventh PI... G 35 
 
 Fifty-eighth S 35 
 
 Fifty-eighth P1....G 35 
 
 Fifty-ninth S 36 
 
 Fifty-ninth PI F 36 
 
 Fillmore J 24 
 
 Finch Ave P 15 
 
 First Ave Y 49 
 
 First Ave Z 54 
 
 Fisk N 26 
 
 Fitzhue H 32 
 
 Fleetwood M 19 
 
 Fletcher Ave M 15 
 
 Florence Ave J 31 
 
 Florence Ave N 16 
 
 Florimond P 18 
 
 Flournoy ..J 24 
 
 Follansbee — I 17 
 
 Fontenoy PI L 19 
 
 Ford O 35 
 
 Ford Ave W 40 
 
 Forest Ave a 18 
 
 Forest Ave D 11 
 
 Forest Ave J 16 
 
 forest Ave Q 30 
 
 Forest Glen Ave...D 9 
 
 Forquer G 24 
 
 Forrester Ave P 46 
 
 Fortieth R 31 
 
 Fortieth Ct I 31 
 
 Fortieth Ct O 31 
 
 Fortieth PI K 19 
 
 Forty-first R 31 
 
 Forty-second R 31 
 
 Forty-second PI. ..F 28 
 Forty-second PI. . .R 31 
 Forty-second PI . . . S 31 
 
 Forty-third R 31 
 
 Forty-fourth R 32 
 
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 Fortv-fourth PI... .R 32 
 
 Forty-tifth R 32 
 
 Forty-tifth Ct P 32 
 
 Forly-sixth R 32 
 
 Forty-seventh R 33 
 
 Forty -seventh Ct...J 33 
 Forty-seventh P1..E 19 
 
 Forty-eighth S 33 
 
 Forty -ninth S 33 
 
 Forty-ninth Ct K 3 5 
 
 Foster I 10 
 
 Fourteenth Q, 25 
 
 Fourteenth, W... L 2.5 
 
 Fourth Ave M 49 
 
 Fourth Ave Z 54 
 
 Fowler K 19 
 
 Fox M 29 
 
 Fox PI M 19 
 
 Front Q 50 
 
 Francis M 8 
 
 Francisco I 24 
 
 Francisco Ave I 30 
 
 Francisco Ave I 34 
 
 Francisco, N I 20 
 
 Francis PI J 17 
 
 Frank N 25 
 
 Franlcford B 18 
 
 Franlifort K 17 
 
 Franljlin P 23 
 
 Franklin E 11 
 
 Franklin N 46 
 
 Franklin Ave H 15 
 
 Franklin Ave J 15 
 
 Franklin. N P 21 
 
 Frederick O 16 
 
 Frederick Ave G 19 
 
 Free Q, 49 
 
 Freeman J 29 
 
 Fremont N 18 
 
 PYench Ave W 40 
 
 Front M 45 
 
 Front N 20 
 
 Front Q 50 
 
 Fry M 20 
 
 Fuller M 28 
 
 Fnllerton Ave I 16 
 
 Fulton K 22 
 
 Fulton Ave L 7 
 
 Gage N 30 
 
 Gage Ave J 37 
 
 Gage PI J 34 
 
 Galena B 18 
 
 (ialt Ave Nil 
 
 (Jarden A 18 
 
 Garden N 23 
 
 Garden Ave I 15 
 
 Gardner I 13 
 
 Gardner O 19 
 
 Garfield Ave G 17 
 
 Garfield Ave K 10 
 
 Garfield Ave N 17 
 
 Garfield Boul G 24 
 
 Garfield Boul L 34 
 
 Garland PI Q, 22 
 
 Garrett L 28 
 
 Garvin Ave V 44 
 
 Gary PI O 13 
 
 GaultTl O 20 
 
 Genesee Ave G 23 
 
 Genesee Ave ... . J 30 
 
 Geneva J 30 
 
 Genevieve N 33 
 
 Genevieve Ave G 17 
 
 George M 15 
 
 George O 15 
 
 George N 20 
 
 George Ave E 17 
 
 George PI K 2 1 
 
 GermaniaPl P 19 
 
 Gertrude Ave 114 
 
 Giddings K 11 
 
 Gilbert PI O 42 
 
 Gillett Ave W 48 
 
 Gilpin PI M 24 
 
 Girard L 18 
 
 Girard M 44 
 
 Gladys Ave E 23 
 
 Glendale Ave. H 35 
 
 GlenlakeAve N 7 
 
 Glenview Ave G 20 
 
 Glenwood Ave. .. .L 18 
 
 GloyPl L 17 
 
 Goethe P 19 
 
 Goethe Ave Y 54 
 
 Gold N 24 
 
 Good N 24 
 
 Goodman Ct C 10 
 
 Goodspeed L 32 
 
 Goodwin H 25 
 
 Gordon P 32 
 
 Gordon Terrace O 12 
 
 Goshen P 32 
 
 Grace M 13 
 
 Grace O 19 
 
 Grace Ave I 12 
 
 Grace Ave J 37 
 
 Grace Ave T 3? 
 
 Graceland Ave K 13 
 
 Graham X 47 
 
 Grand Ave I 20 
 
 Grand Ave J 47 
 
 Grand Ave. Rd C 17 
 
 Grand Boul K 32 
 
 Grand Terrace T 40 
 
 Grant Ave B 10 
 
 Grant Ave F 10 
 
 Grant PI K 10 
 
 Grant PI P 38 
 
 Grant PI O 17 
 
 Graves PI R 29 
 
 Gray C 10 
 
 Graylock P 33 
 
 Greeley PI N 20 
 
 Green N 23 
 
 Green, N N 22 
 
 Green Bay Ave. . . .Y 43 
 
 Greenbay Ave Y 54 
 
 Greenwich K 18 
 
 Greenwood Ave F 12 
 
 Greenwood Ave. ..K 16 
 
 Greenwood Ave S 36 
 
 Greenwood Ave S 44 
 
 Grenshaw J 24 
 
 Gresham Ave H 15 
 
 Griffin Ave H 16 
 
 Gross Ave M 32 
 
 Gross Ave V 44 
 
 Gross Park L 14 
 
 Gross Park Ave . . .L 14 
 
 Gross Terrace I 23 
 
 Grove A 18 
 
 Grove I 12 
 
 Grove P 26 
 
 Grove Ave B 10 
 
 Grove Ave I 12 
 
 Grove Ct O 17 
 
 Grove PI H 45 
 
 Grovel and Ave E 16 
 
 Groveland Ave .... R 28 
 
 GrovelandCt 42 
 
 Groveland Ct R £0 
 
 Groveland Pk R 29 
 
 Gunn O 36 
 
 Gurley N 24 
 
 Haddock PI P 22 
 
 Haines N 20 
 
 Hale N 48 
 
 Hall O 15 
 
 Uallovvell C 10 
 
 Halsted O 27 
 
 Hal8ted,N O 22 
 
 Hamburg K 17 
 
 Hamilton Ave K 23 
 
 Hamlin Ave G 23 
 
 Hamlin Ave., N...G 19 
 
 Hammond P 18 
 
 Hammond Ave I 15 
 
 Hampden Ct O 16 
 
 Hancock Ave H 17 
 
 Hanford ..H 4a 
 
 Harbor Ave Y 44 
 
 Harding G 11 
 
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 Harding Ave G 10 
 
 Harding Ave G 21 
 
 Harding Ave G 28 
 
 Harding Ave G 34 
 
 Harmon Ct Q, 24 
 
 Harrison P 23 
 
 Harrison Ave S 43 
 
 Harrison, W K 23 
 
 Hart J 30 
 
 Hart L 21 
 
 Hartwell Ave Q, 37 
 
 Harvard J 24 
 
 Harvard Ave . . P 37 
 
 Hastings L 25 
 
 Hathaway E 14 
 
 Haven P 28 
 
 Hawkinson Ave..vV 52 
 
 Hawnellve V 55 
 
 Hawthorne Ave...N 19 
 Hawthorne Ave.. .0 40 
 
 HawtliornePl O 14 
 
 Hayes Ave X 47 
 
 Hayes Boul E 16 
 
 Haynes Ct M 28 
 
 Hazel K 46 
 
 Hazel M 47 
 
 Hazel N 12 
 
 Hazel Ave L 44 
 
 Hegewisch Ave...X 54 
 
 Heine I 12 
 
 Heine I 18 
 
 Hein PI ....." O 1!) 
 
 Henderson H 14 
 
 Henderson L 16 
 
 Henry L 25 
 
 Henry Ct J 17 
 
 Herbert A^'e G 10 
 
 Herman Ave W 43 
 
 Hermitage Ave L 24 
 
 Herndon M 17 
 
 Hervey L \1 
 
 Hesing Ave I 14 
 
 Hewes M 18 
 
 Hewitt Ave V 55 
 
 Hews Ave V 48 
 
 Hibbard Ave T 34 
 
 Hicking Ave N 34 
 
 Hickory M 28 
 
 Hickory Ave L 46 
 
 Hiclcory Ave N 19 
 
 High a 18 
 
 High E 14 
 
 High I 38 
 
 High M 17 
 
 High N 47 
 
 High Ave Y 54 
 
 Highland Ave K 47 
 
 Hill a 18 
 
 Hill Ave H 49 
 
 Hilliard K 43 
 
 Hilliard Ave M 43 
 
 Hills P 20 
 
 Hillside N 43 
 
 Hinklev Ave F 17 
 
 Hinkley Ave H 14 
 
 Hinman M 26 
 
 llinsche O 19 
 
 Ilirsch J 19 
 
 Ilirsch F 19 
 
 Hobbie O 20 
 
 lloey N 2S 
 
 Hoftman Ave J 17 
 
 Hoking P 31 
 
 Holcomb Ave I 15 
 
 Holdeu P 25 
 
 Holland Sottl. Rd..O 42 
 
 Hollywood Ave N 8 
 
 Holt M 19 
 
 Homan Ave H 23 
 
 Homan Ave., lSf...H 21 
 
 Homer K 18 
 
 Honore. L 30 
 
 Hood Ave L 7 
 
 Hooker N 19 
 
 Hope N 2t 
 
 Hope Ave T 37 
 
 Hopkinson K 43 
 
 HortonCt L 44 
 
 Hosmer Ave D 18 
 
 Hougan Ave M 13 
 
 Hough L 4*1 
 
 Hough PI N 27 
 
 HoussenCt G 15 
 
 Houston Ave X 54 
 
 Howard Ave F 17 
 
 Howard Ave Q 50 
 
 Howard Ave V 55 
 
 Howard Ave X 54 
 
 Howard Ct I 20 
 
 Howe O 18 
 
 Hoxie Ave W 47 
 
 Hoyne Ave K 27 
 
 Hoyne Ave K 45 
 
 Hoyne Ave., N... K 19 
 
 Hoyt O 37 
 
 Hubbard E 21 
 
 Hubbard Ct Q 24 
 
 Huber M 17 
 
 Huck Ave K 10 
 
 Hudson J 29 
 
 Hudson Ave O 19 
 
 Humboldt I 18 
 
 Humboldt Ave G \l 
 
 Humboldt Ave.... H 16 
 
 Humboldt Ave I 19 
 
 Humboldt Ave J 20 
 
 Humboldt Boul.... I 17 
 
 Hunting Ave E It 
 
 Huntiogdon C 10 
 
 Huron H 13 
 
 Huron M 54 
 
 Huron P 21 
 
 Huron, W 1 21 
 
 Hydraulic PI P 23 
 
 Hyman Ave E 34 
 
 Ida E 24 
 
 [da O 35 
 
 Illinois P 21 
 
 Illinois Ave N 29 
 
 Illinois Ave X 42 
 
 Independence P1..E 22 
 
 Indiana P 21 
 
 Indiana Ave Q, 30 
 
 Indiana Boul Z 46 
 
 Indiana, W K 21 
 
 Inglehart PI R 28 
 
 Ingleside 8 35 
 
 Ingraham M 19 
 
 Inkerman P 32 
 
 Institute PI Q 20 
 
 Iowa K 20 
 
 Iron M 29 
 
 Iron Q 50 
 
 Irving B 14 
 
 Irving Ave. F 13 
 
 Irving Ave F 34 
 
 I rving Ave K 12 
 
 Irving Ave K 23 
 
 Irving Pk. Boul ...II 13 
 Irving PI K 22 
 
 Jackson C 10 
 
 Jackson G 10 
 
 Jackson P 23 
 
 Jackson P 34 
 
 Jackson Ave S 35 
 
 Jackson, W K 23 
 
 James D 11 
 
 James J 54 
 
 James K 34 
 
 James M 49 
 
 James N 29 
 
 Jane L 20 
 
 Jan Huss Ave G 16 
 
 .Tan Huss Ave . ... G 42 
 
 Jansen M 14 
 
 Jarvis II 32 
 
 Jasper P 19 
 
 Jasper M 29 
 
 Jefiferson B 18 
 
 Jeiferson O 25 
 
 Jefferson. N O 22 
 
 Jefferson Ave E 18 
 
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 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 Streets and Avenues— Continued. 
 
 Jefferson Ave T 40 
 
 Jefferson Ct J K 
 
 Jeffery Ave V 42 
 
 Jesse PI K 21 
 
 Joan Ave G 50 
 
 John PI N 27 
 
 Johnson N 26 
 
 Johnson Ave R 28 
 
 Johnston Ave I 17 
 
 Joseph I 30 
 
 Joseph. .. N 27 
 
 Joseph Ave G 14 
 
 Judd O 25 
 
 Judd X 48 
 
 Judson N 19 
 
 Julia Ct J 17 
 
 Julian L 19 
 
 JuUus N 24 
 
 Junction Ave H 37 
 
 Juniata H 12 
 
 Juniata Ave V 52 
 
 Justine M 34 
 
 Kedzie Ave I 28 
 
 Kedzie Ave., N I 21 
 
 Keefe Ave R 38 
 
 Keeley N 28 
 
 Keeney Ave F 17 
 
 Keenon L 19 
 
 Keith M 21 
 
 Kellogg Ave F 27 
 
 Kellogg Ave I 44 
 
 Kemper PI O 17 
 
 Kendall K 24 
 
 Kenmore Ave N 8 
 
 Kenwood Ave T 33 
 
 Kenwood Terrace .V 39 
 
 Kerney G 40 
 
 Kidder Ct S 40 
 
 Kimball K 46 
 
 KimbarkAve T 35 
 
 Kimball Ave H 17 
 
 Kiucaide Ave 
 
 King PI N 15 
 
 Kiagsbury O 21 
 
 Kingston Ave W 42 
 
 Kingston Ave W 55 
 
 Kinzie P 21 
 
 Kinzie, W L 22 
 
 Kirkwood Ave H 46 
 
 Klein man Ave W 49 
 
 Koenig Ave I 15 
 
 Kohlsaat Ave O 13 
 
 Kosciusko K 17 
 
 Kossuth B 18 
 
 Kramer O 25 
 
 Kruse Ave J 33 
 
 KuehlPl L 17 
 
 KuhnCt J 17 
 
 Lafayette Pk. Wy.N 10 
 
 Laflin M 25 
 
 Lake P 22 
 
 Lake, W L 22 
 
 Lake Ave y 55 
 
 Lake Ave .T 32 
 
 Lake Ave X 39 
 
 Lake Park Ave R 28 
 
 Lake Park PI Q 21 
 
 Lake Shore Drive. .Q, 19 
 
 Lake Side Ave N 11 
 
 Lakeside Ave V 51 
 
 Lake View Ave P 16 
 
 Lakewood Ave M 9 
 
 Lane PI P 17 
 
 Langley Ave R 3-3 
 
 Larmon Ave P 40 
 
 Larrabee O 20 
 
 La Salle M 4^^ 
 
 La Salle P 28 
 
 La Salle Ave P 19 
 
 Laughton . J 27 
 
 Laurel K 44 
 
 Laurel L 4j 
 
 Laurel "N 3) 
 
 Laurel Ave I 13 
 
 Laurel Ave J 16 
 
 Lavina P 36 
 
 Law Ave O 24 
 
 Lawndale Ave G 19 
 
 Lawudale Ave G 28 
 
 Lawndale Ave G 34 
 
 Lawrence M 17 
 
 Lawrence Ave K 11 
 
 Lay J 28 
 
 Layton O 32 
 
 Ldyton Ave 11 45 
 
 Leavitt K 28 
 
 Leavitt, N K 19 
 
 Lee Ave I 15 
 
 Lee Ave N 88 
 
 LeePl K 21 
 
 Leipzig K 17 
 
 Leland Ave K 11 
 
 Lemoyne K 19 
 
 Leo N 28 
 
 Leo PI K 10 
 
 Lessing N 20 
 
 Levant Ave U 42 
 
 Levee M 28 
 
 Levy Ave C 16 
 
 Lewis C 10 
 
 Lewis M ]7 
 
 Lexington b 16 
 
 Lexington J 24 
 
 Lexington Ave O 40 
 
 Lexington Ave S 36 
 
 Liberty O 25 
 
 Liberty Q 40 
 
 Lill K 16 
 
 LillAve N 16 
 
 Lilla £ 24 
 
 Lime N 27 
 
 Lincoln L 12 
 
 Lincoln L 24 
 
 Lincoln L 30 
 
 Lincoln, N L 19 
 
 Lincoln Ave G 15 
 
 Lincoln Ave O 17 
 
 Lincoln 4ve Q 55 
 
 Lincoln Ave. ...... V 50 
 
 Lincoln PI •. .0 17 
 
 Linden b 17 
 
 Linden M 10 
 
 Jjinden Ave D 18 
 
 Linden Ave J 16 
 
 Linden PI L 45 
 
 Linn Ave. W 52 
 
 Linwood PI I 20 
 
 Lisla B 18 
 
 Lisle O 26 
 
 Lister Ave L 17 
 
 Little Ave J 31 
 
 Little ForkRd.....J 10 
 Livingston Ave ...H 38 
 
 Livingston Ave V 55 
 
 Lock M 28 
 
 Lockport K 30 
 
 Lock wood Ave R 54 
 
 Locust P 20 
 
 Locust G 40 
 
 Locust M 46 
 
 Locust Ave H 38 
 
 Logan M 28 
 
 Logan O 33 
 
 Logan Ave N 43 
 
 Logan Sq I 16 
 
 Lombard Ave E 11 
 
 Lonergan P 18 
 
 Loomis M 25 
 
 Lothair Ave K 49 
 
 Lowe Ave O 30 
 
 Lubeck K 17 
 
 Luce M 19 
 
 Luella Ave U 44 
 
 Lull PI L 19 
 
 Lumber J 28 
 
 Lumber O 27 
 
 Lumber P 25 
 
 Lundy K 30 
 
 Lundy's Lane K 29 
 
 Lunn Ct J 25 
 
 Luther J 27 
 
 LutzPl O 19 
 
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 Lydia O -l-l 
 
 Lydiard I) '~1 
 
 Lyman M 28 
 
 Lymau Ave Kll 
 
 Lyndale Ave E 17 
 
 Lyon Ave K 50 
 
 Lyon Ave R 44 
 
 Lytle M 24 
 
 McAlpine K 29 
 
 McAuley Ave F 18 
 
 McChesuey Ave . . . R 37 
 
 McDermott M 28 
 
 McGlashen O 27 
 
 McHenry M 18 
 
 McUroy H 20 
 
 McKibbon Ave I 32 
 
 McLean Ave G 17 
 
 McLennan G 32 
 
 McLeod Ave J 37 
 
 McMaster H 14 
 
 McMullenCt N 2(5 
 
 McReynolds L 11) 
 
 Macalester PI .M 24 
 
 Macedonia L 19 
 
 Mackinaw Ave.. .Y 43 
 
 Madison E 11 
 
 Madison P 22 
 
 Madison, W L 22 
 
 Madison Ave M 46 
 
 Madison Ave T 3(5 
 
 Madison Ct T 37 
 
 Magazine B 18 
 
 Magnolia Ave M 9 
 
 Main B 18 
 
 Main M 27 
 
 Mailer E 24 
 
 Manistee Ave. .. .W 44 
 
 Maple D 9 
 
 Maple G 40 
 
 Maple H 36 
 
 Maple H 45 
 
 Maple M 46 
 
 Maple P 20 
 
 Maple Ave b 17 
 
 Maple Ave H 3S 
 
 Maple Ave H 48 
 
 Maple Ave J 44 
 
 Maple PI J 17 
 
 Maplewood Ave... J 16 
 Maple wood Ave. . . J 29 
 Maplewood Ave., N.J 19 
 Maplewood PL... J 25 
 
 Mara Ave K 14 
 
 Marble PI O 23 
 
 March P 37 
 
 Marcy N 18 
 
 Margaret N 25 
 
 .ALngarc't PI G 26 
 
 Manauna M 16 
 
 Marion PI L 19 
 
 Mark E 14 
 
 Mark O 26 
 
 Market P 23 
 
 Market Q, 55 
 
 Market, N P 21 
 
 Market Sq L 29 
 
 MarlinPl E 19 
 
 Marquette Ave — W 44 
 
 Marshall O 32 
 
 Marshlield Ave... L 24 
 
 Marshfield L 51 
 
 jNIartin J 27 
 
 INIartin M 46 
 
 Marvin J 27 
 
 Marvin L 47 
 
 Marvin PI E 22 
 
 Mary N 27 
 
 iSIaryland Ave S 37 
 
 Mason Ave F 1(5 
 
 Massey J 32 
 
 Mather O 24 
 
 Mathew L 23 
 
 Matteson O 33 
 
 Mattison Ave W 39 
 
 Maud Ave N 18 
 
 ]\[auteneCt L 19 
 
 :\raxwell .O 25 
 
 May N 16 
 
 May N 24 
 
 May, N N 22 
 
 Mayfair M 12 
 
 Maynard Ave B 10 
 
 Mazon L 48 
 
 Mead H 20 
 
 Meadow M 49 
 
 Meaghan M 29 
 
 Meagher O 25 
 
 Mechanic O 26 
 
 Medill Ave H 17 
 
 Medora P 24 
 
 Mcdora L 50 
 
 Medora Ave L 50 
 
 Medora Ave G 49 
 
 Melrose M 14 
 
 Meudell Ct M 17 
 
 IMenomonee O 18 
 
 Menrmore Ave G 17 
 
 Pierian Ave I 26 
 
 Meridian O 22 
 
 Merrill Ave V 42 
 
 Mever Ave O 18 
 
 Michael Ave L 43 
 
 Michigan H 13 
 
 Michicran P 21 
 
 Michigan Ave I 44 
 
 Michigan Ave Q 34 
 
 Michigan Ave W 53 
 
 Mill L 29 
 
 Millard Ave G 25 
 
 Miller M 24 
 
 Miller F 11 
 
 Miller F 24 
 
 Milton Ave O 20 
 
 M ilwaukee Ave L 19 
 
 Mitchel F 11 
 
 Mitchell Ave I 18 
 
 Mittmore Ave G 16 
 
 Modena E 33 
 
 Moflfatt J 18 
 
 Mohawk O 18 
 
 Mohawk O 33 
 
 Moltke J 19 
 
 MoltkeAve Y 54 
 
 Monroe B 18 
 
 Monroe D 12 
 
 Monroe P 23 
 
 Monroe, W K 23 
 
 Monroe Ave T 35 
 
 Montana K 16 
 
 Montana N 16 
 
 Montana Ave E 16 
 
 Mont Clare Ave . . . .b 14 
 Montgomery Ave.. J 31 
 
 Monticello Ave G 21 
 
 Monticello Ave K 48 
 
 Moore ....E 14 
 
 Moore L 27 
 
 Moore P 20 
 
 Moore PI G 26 
 
 Moorman L 19 
 
 Morgan N 25 
 
 Morgan K 48 
 
 Morgan, N N 22 
 
 Morgan Park Ave . . G 50 
 
 Morgan PI N 23 
 
 Morris O 34 
 
 Mosprat N 29 
 
 Mound Ave P 34 
 
 Mountain Ave O 50 
 
 Mozart I 12 
 
 Mozart I 18 
 
 Munson F 34 
 
 Murray O 35 
 
 Murray Ave D 10 
 
 Muskegon Ave X 44 
 
 MynonAve L 47 
 
 Myrtle a 18 
 
 Myrtle Ave J 17 
 
 Myrtle Ave S 31 
 
 Myrtle Ave S 37 
 
 Nassau I 23 
 
 Nassau L 54 
 
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 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
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 Nebraska Ave I 18 
 
 Nelson N 15 
 
 Nelson H 47 
 
 Nelson Ave D 19 
 
 Nevada O 14 
 
 Nevada Ave E 16 
 
 New J 53 
 
 Newberry Ave N 25 
 
 Newport Ave U 14 
 
 Newton L 20 
 
 Niagara D 20 
 
 Niagara O 33 
 
 Nicbolls I 21 
 
 Nineteenth P 20 
 
 Nineteenth PL, W.N 26 
 
 Nineteenth, W L 26 
 
 Ninetieth V 43 
 
 Ninetieth Pi. S 43 
 
 Ninety-first U 44 
 
 Ninety-second V 44 
 
 Ninety-second PI. .V 44 
 
 Ninety-third V 44 
 
 Ninety-fonrth V 44 
 
 Nineiy-fifth W 45 
 
 Ninety-sixth X 45 
 
 Ninety-seventh X 45 
 
 Ninety-eighth X 45 
 
 Ninety-ninth X 46 
 
 Ninth Ave S 47 
 
 Nixon M 24 
 
 Noble M 20 
 
 Noble Ave M 15 
 
 Noble Ct T 39 
 
 Normal Park Way 
 
 N O 38 
 
 Normal Park Way 
 
 S O 38 
 
 Norman Ave 1 18 
 
 North L 10 
 
 North Ave J 53 
 
 North Ave N IS 
 
 North Ave.,W....H 18 
 
 North Branch N 20 
 
 North Ct M 10 
 
 North Park Ave...P IT 
 
 North PI L 17 
 
 North Water Q 21 
 
 Norton N 24 
 
 Norwood Ave H 19 
 
 Norwood Pk. Plank 
 
 Rd B 9 
 
 Notre Dame Ave..X 46 
 
 Nursery M 17 
 
 Nutt N 26 
 
 Nutt Ave U 39 
 
 Nutt Ct N 26 
 
 Oak a 17 
 
 Oak b 13 
 
 Oak b 18 
 
 Oak D 20 
 
 Oak P 10 
 
 0;ik G 40 
 
 Oak J 53 
 
 Oak K 45 
 
 Oak L 55 
 
 Oak M 45 
 
 Oak P 34 
 
 Oak Q 20 
 
 Oak Ave L 50 
 
 Oak Ave K 30 
 
 Oak Ave W 50 
 
 Oakdale K 15 
 
 Oakdale Ave N 15 
 
 Oakeuwald Ave T 33 
 
 Oak Grove Ave . . . N 13 
 
 Oakley Ave K 29 
 
 Oakley Ave., N...K 19 
 
 Oak Park Ave b IS 
 
 Oak PI N 14 
 
 Oakwood Ave G 50 
 
 Oakwood Ave I 31 
 
 Oakwood Ave S 31 
 
 Oakwood Bou'. ...R 31 
 
 O'Brien O 25 
 
 O'Brien Ave E 18' 
 
 Ogden Ave G 26 
 
 OgdenPl L 23 
 
 Oglesby Ave N 45 
 
 Oglesby Avo V 38 
 
 Ohio P 21 
 
 Ohio, W K 21 
 
 Olga N 13 
 
 Olive K 2") 
 
 Olive M 8 
 
 Olive Ct M 10 
 
 iroth X 42 
 
 101st W 46 
 
 102d W 46 
 
 103d Y 47 
 
 103d PI Q, 47 
 
 104th W 4r 
 
 105th Y 47 
 
 106th Y 47 
 
 1 )7th X 48 
 
 107th PI M 48 
 
 108th X 48 
 
 108th PI M 48 
 
 109th X 48 
 
 109th PI P 48 
 
 110th X 48 
 
 110th PI P 48 
 
 111th X 49 
 
 111th PI P 49 
 
 112th X 49 
 
 112th PI P 49 
 
 113th X 49 
 
 113th PI P 49 
 
 114th X 49 
 
 115th X 50 
 
 116th X 50 
 
 117th X 50 
 
 118th W 51 
 
 118th PI I 50 
 
 119th W 51 
 
 120th W 51 
 
 121st Y 51 
 
 12M W 51 
 
 123d W 52 
 
 124th W 52 
 
 125th V 52 
 
 126th W 52 
 
 127th W 52 
 
 128th W 53 
 
 130th Y53 
 
 131st Y 54 
 
 132d Y 54 
 
 133d Y 54 
 
 134th X 55 
 
 135th W 55 
 
 136th ..V 55 
 
 137th V 55 
 
 138th V 55 
 
 O'Neil N 27 
 
 Ontario H 13 
 
 Ontario M 54 
 
 Ontario P 21 
 
 Ontario Ave X 44 
 
 Ontario. W D 21 
 
 Orange K 53 
 
 Orchard A 18 
 
 Orchard O 18 
 
 Orchard T 32 
 
 Orleans Ave H 49 
 
 Osborn L 21 
 
 Osgood N 17 
 
 Oswego L 21 
 
 Oswell Ave P 34 
 
 Otis O 19 
 
 Otto n 14 
 
 Ovitt PI H 17 
 
 Owasco J 23 
 
 Oxford Ct R 30 
 
 Pacific Ave H 37 
 
 Pacific Ave P 24 
 
 Packer's Ave m 32 
 
 Page L 22 
 
 Page, N L 21 
 
 Page L 37 
 
 Palasaide H 36 
 
 Palatine H 25 
 
 Palm Ave II 37 
 
 Palmer L 10 
 
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 Piilmer Ave I 17 
 
 Palmer Ave V 38 
 
 Palmer Sq I 17 
 
 Park H 8G 
 
 Park L 19 
 
 Park m 49 
 
 Park Ave a 17 
 
 ParkAvc F 13 
 
 Park Ave P 34 
 
 Park Ave H 15 
 
 Park Ave H 45 
 
 Park Ave J 22 
 
 Park Ave L 19 
 
 Park Ave O 15 
 
 Park Ave P 46 
 
 Park Ct.... T 33 
 
 Park Crescent L 48 
 
 Park End Ave R 36 
 
 Parker Ave F 16 
 
 Parmelee K 27 
 
 Parnell Ave O 30 
 
 Paruell Ave O 51 
 
 Parnell Ave X 45 
 
 Paulina L 24 
 
 Paulina ,...L 30 
 
 Paulina, N L 19 
 
 Paxton Ave V 40 
 
 Paxton Ave V 51 
 
 Pearce O 2^ 
 
 Pearl b 17 
 
 Pearl F 27 
 
 Pearl G 40 
 
 Pearl M 45 
 
 Pearl O 17 
 
 Pearl P 28 
 
 Pearl Ave I 31 
 
 Pearson.. Q, 20 
 
 PeckCt q 24 
 
 Pedro PI K 50 
 
 Penn ..O 19 
 
 PcnnPl E 22 
 
 Pennock Ave G 16 
 
 Pennock Bd F 16 
 
 Penn-ylvania Av..F 18 
 Pennsylvania Ave.V 55 
 
 Peoria N 23 
 
 Peoria N 34 
 
 Peoria, N N 22 
 
 Perry Ave B 10 
 
 Perry Ave J 17 
 
 Peterson K 18 
 
 Peterson M 8 
 
 Pliare Ave I .34 
 
 Philadelphia PI .... E 22 
 
 Phillips N 21 
 
 Phillips Ave H 12 
 
 Phillips Ave W 42 
 
 Phillips Ave W 55 
 
 Phillips Ave Y 49 
 
 Phillips Ave Y 54 
 
 Phinney Ave II 23 
 
 Phinney Ave., N..H 21 
 
 Pier S ;;0 
 
 Pierce K 41 
 
 Pierce Ave 11 19 
 
 Pierson Ave I 30 
 
 Pigdon F 11 
 
 Pine a 13 
 
 Pine H 16 
 
 Pine K 44 
 
 Pine L 9 
 
 Pine L 50 
 
 Pine Q 21 
 
 Pine Ave U 10 
 
 Pine A\e II 37 
 
 Pine Grove Ave...O 13 
 Pine Grove Ave. . . O 15 
 
 Pitney Ct M 28 
 
 Pittsburg Ave W 52 
 
 Pitt^ficld Ave G 36 
 
 Pleasant II 12 
 
 Pleasant L 7 
 
 Pleasant O 19 
 
 Pleasant Ave K 43 
 
 Pleasant PI D 22 
 
 Pleasant PI J 17 
 
 Plum M 24 
 
 Plymouth PI P ;^5 
 
 Poe N 18 
 
 Point J 17 
 
 Polk ....P 24 
 
 Polk, W K 24 
 
 Poplar G 40 
 
 Poplar Ave N 28 
 
 Portland L 51 
 
 Portland Ave P 27 
 
 Portland Ave P 50 
 
 Post M 28 
 
 Potomac Ave J 19 
 
 Powell Ave J 17 
 
 Powell Ave V 48 
 
 Powell Pk J 17 
 
 Prairie J 53 
 
 Prairie N 48 
 
 Prairie Ave K 51 
 
 Prairie Ave.-. M 45 
 
 Prairie Ave Q, 32 
 
 Pratt C 10 
 
 Pratt N 21 
 
 Pratt PI K 23 
 
 Prescott E 12 
 
 Prince Ave G 19 
 
 Princeton b 16 
 
 Princeton P 33 
 
 Prindivillc J 17 
 
 Private M 31 
 
 Private Ko. 1 M 31 
 
 Private No. 2 M 31 
 
 Private No. 3 M 31 
 
 Prospect Ave b 17 
 
 Prospect Ave G 48 
 
 Prospect Ave K 43 
 
 Prospect PI U 30 
 
 Pulaski K 17 
 
 Pullman Ave I 32 
 
 Purple P 26 
 
 Putnam O 21 
 
 Quarry N 27 
 
 Quincy O 23 
 
 Quincy, W O 23 
 
 Q,uinn N 28 
 
 Racine Ave...... . N 17 
 
 Railroad Ave P 25 
 
 Railroad Ave .. ..P 32 
 
 Railroad Ave X 41 
 
 Raleigh Ct K 25 
 
 Randolph P 22 
 
 Randolph, W N 22 
 
 Randolph Ave G 14 
 
 Ravenswood Park.L 11 
 
 Rawson M 18 
 
 Ray Q 28 
 
 Raymond K 18 
 
 Raymond M 49 
 
 Reade Ave X 49 
 
 Reaper L 16 
 
 Rebecca D 11 
 
 Rebecca L 25 
 
 Redfield M 18 
 
 Reed E 12 
 
 Reed PI M 12 
 
 Rees O 19 
 
 Regina O 37 
 
 Reid R 40 
 
 Remington Ave K 48 
 
 Reta N 14 
 
 Reynolds Ave X 41 
 
 Rhine K 17 
 
 Rhodes Ave R 29 
 
 Rhoades Ave R 38 
 
 Rhoades Ave S 39 
 
 Rice L 20 
 
 Rice PI K 27 
 
 Richardson Ave...O 37 
 
 Richmond I 20 
 
 Richmond Ave I 16 
 
 Richmond Ave B' 27 
 
 Ridge L 7 
 
 Ridge Ave L 47 
 
 Ridge Ave L 50 
 
 Ridgeland Ave A 14 
 
 Ridgeway Ave. . . . G 19 
 
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 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 Streets and Avenues -Continued. 
 
 Ridge way Ave (x 34 
 
 Ridgewood Ct T 3i 
 
 Ritchie PI Q 19 
 
 River Q 22 
 
 River X 50 
 
 River Q, 55 
 
 River, E X 50 
 
 River, W X 50 
 
 RiverdaleAve R 54 
 
 Roberts Ave C 10 
 
 Roberts O 21 
 
 Robertson Ave T 37 
 
 Robey L 27 
 
 Robey, N L 19 
 
 Robinson L 28 
 
 Robinson Ave D 18 
 
 Rockwell J 24 
 
 Rockwell J 29 
 
 Rockwell, N J 1<) 
 
 Roe K 24 
 
 Rokeby N 13 
 
 Rome Ave M 10 
 
 Root P 31 
 
 Rosalie Ct T 35 
 
 Roscoe M 14 
 
 Rose M 20 
 
 Rosebud K l8 
 
 Rosemont Ave N 7 
 
 Rosenmerkel O 35 
 
 Rosewood Q, 25 
 
 Roslyn PI. O 16 
 
 Ross E 28 
 
 Ross Ave Q, 35 
 
 Ross PI H 45 
 
 Rowley K 46 
 
 Ruble O 26 
 
 RttdolpliAve K 15 
 
 Rtxmsey L 20 
 
 Rundell PI N 23 
 
 Rupp Ave V 44 
 
 Rush P 31 
 
 Rush Q, 20 
 
 Russell Ave Y 54 
 
 Russell Ave X 49 
 
 Sackett J 31 
 
 Sacramento Ave ... .1 12 
 
 Sacramento Ave I 24 
 
 Sacramento Ave. ..I 27 
 Sacramento Ave.,N I 22 
 
 Sacramento Sq I 21 
 
 Saginaw Ave W 44 
 
 Sampson Ave D 11 
 
 Samuel L 20 
 
 Sangamon N 23 
 
 Sangamon, N N 24 
 
 Sanger O 27 
 
 Sannott PI L 44 
 
 Saratoga b 16 
 
 Sawyer Ave H 2.t 
 
 Sawyer Ave H 34 
 
 Sawyer Ave H 47 
 
 Sawyer Ave Q, 50 
 
 Sayers Ave b 17 
 
 Schiller P 19 
 
 Schiller Ave L 50 
 
 School M 14 
 
 School M 46 
 
 School Q, 50 
 
 Scott Q, 19 
 
 Scovel Ave V 47 
 
 Sebor O 24 
 
 Second O 21 
 
 Second Ave Y 49 
 
 Second Ave I 16 
 
 Second Ave R 49 
 
 Second Ave Z 54 
 
 Section Ave O 50 
 
 Sedgwick P 19 
 
 Sedgwick Ct P 20 
 
 Seeley Ave K 23 
 
 Seeley K 37 
 
 Seipp Ave 40 
 
 Selden L 24 
 
 Selwin Ave F 13 
 
 Seminary Ave N 17 
 
 Seminary PI N 16 
 
 Seneca Q, 21 
 
 Seneshall P 31 
 
 Seresis X 48 
 
 Seventeenth, W....L 26 
 
 Seventeenth P 26 
 
 Seventh Ave Z 46 
 
 Seventieth T 38 
 
 Seventy-first T 39 
 
 Seventy-first Ct....K 39 
 Seventy- first PI.... T 39 
 Seventy-second. . . .T 39 
 Seventy-second Ct. K 39 
 Seventy-second PI.. T 39 
 
 Seventy-third T 39 
 
 Seventy-fourth S 39 
 
 Seventy-fourth Pl.U 39 
 
 Seventy-fifth T 40 
 
 Seventy-sixth .. ..T 40 
 Seventy-sixth Ct...W 40 
 Seventy-seventh. . .T 40 
 Seventy-seventh Ct. 
 
 W 40 
 
 Seventy -eighth U 40 
 
 Seventy-eighth PI.. X 40 
 
 Seventy-ninth W 41 
 
 Seventy-ninth Ct..G 41 
 Seventy-ninth P1..X 41 
 
 Seymour Ave V 50 
 
 Shades PI O 18 
 
 Shakespeare Ave. ..117 
 
 Sheflield Ave N 16 
 
 Shelby Ct N 26 
 
 Sheldon M 13 
 
 Sheldon M 22 
 
 Sheldon, N M 22 
 
 Sheldon Ave E 11 
 
 Shell Ave S 40 
 
 Shepard ...L 49 
 
 Shergold Ct T 40 
 
 Sheridan H 19 
 
 Sheridan Ave 1 24 
 
 Sheridan Ave I 35 
 
 Sheridan Ave T 37 
 
 Sheridan Ave X 51 
 
 Sheridan PI P 26 
 
 Sherman K 44 
 
 Sherman O 32 
 
 Sherman O 37 
 
 Sherman^. P 24 
 
 Sherman Ave D 11 
 
 Sherman Ave F 15 
 
 Sherman Ave I 32 
 
 Sherman Ave I 50 
 
 Sherman Ave K 41 
 
 Sherman Ave U 50 
 
 Sherman Ave X 42 
 
 Sherman PI O 16 
 
 Sherman PI Q, 21 
 
 Sherry a 13 
 
 Shields Ave P 29 
 
 Shober K 19 
 
 Shoerling Are. ...O 41 
 
 Sbolto N 24 
 
 Shore C 10 
 
 Short L 49 
 
 Short M 28 
 
 Short PI L 50 
 
 ShurtUflE Ave P 32 
 
 Sibley M 24 
 
 Sidney Ave S 32 
 
 Sidney Ct U 16 
 
 Sigel I 13 
 
 Sigel P 19 
 
 Silverman Ave D 11 
 
 Sinnott PI M 21 
 
 Sioux Ave I 41 
 
 Sisbens PI O 19 
 
 Sixteenth .'. P 25 
 
 Sixteenth, W. ...M 25 
 
 Sixth Ave R 48 
 
 Sixth Ave Z 45 
 
 Sixtieth S 36 
 
 Sixtieth Ct P 36 
 
 Sixtieth PI F 36 
 
 Sixty-first S 36 
 
 Sixty-first PI T 36 
 
 Sixty-second S 36 
 
 Sixty-second ]'1....T 36 
 Sixtv-secondPl....F 86 
 Sixty -third S 36 
 
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 Sixty-third Ct ....O 3T 
 
 Sixty- fourth S 37 
 
 Sixty -fifth R 37 
 
 Sixty-fifth Ct G 37 
 
 Sixty-filth Terrace.. T 37 
 
 Sixty-sixth S 37 
 
 Sixty-sixth Ct O 37 
 
 Sixty-sixth PI T 37 
 
 Sixty-seventh S 37 
 
 Sixty-seventh Ct...G 38 
 
 Sixty-eighth T 38 
 
 Sixty-eighth Ct. . . . G 38 
 
 Sixty -ninth T 38 
 
 Sixty-ninth Q 38 
 
 Slade L 28 
 
 Slater Ave X 48 
 
 Sloan M 19 
 
 Slocum Ave E 14 
 
 Smart L 21 
 
 Smith I 30 
 
 Smith N 19 
 
 Snell M 21 
 
 Snow K 16 
 
 Sobieski K 17 
 
 Sommers Ave. ■ G 18 
 
 Soult N 15 
 
 South Chicago Ave. U 41 
 South Chicago Ave. X 54 
 South Normal Park 
 
 Way P 38 
 
 South Park Ave... H 47 
 South Park Ave .R 39 
 
 South Park Ct T 36 
 
 Southport Ave M 17 
 
 South Water L 55 
 
 South Water P 22 
 
 South wee cBd I 28 
 
 Spark Ave Q, 47 
 
 Spaulding Ave — H 23 
 
 Spears Ave I 31 
 
 Spencer M 48 
 
 Spencer Ave I 31 
 
 Spencer PI M 48 
 
 Spring J 44 
 
 Spring P 28 
 
 Springer Ave M 29 
 
 Springfield Are G 19 
 
 Springfield Ave .... G 50 
 
 Spruce a 13 
 
 Spruce K 44 
 
 Spruce L 50 
 
 Spruce M 24 
 
 St. Charles B 18 
 
 St. Charles F 13 
 
 St. Charles Ave.... F 34 
 
 St. Clair M 54 
 
 St. Clair Q 21 
 
 St. Elmo L 14 
 
 St. Francis B 18 
 
 St. George's Ct....J 17 
 
 St. Hedwig's K 17 
 
 St. Helen J 17 
 
 St. James Ct O 16 
 
 St. Johns Ave E 11 
 
 St. Johns Ave G 14 
 
 St. Johns PI M 22 
 
 St. Lawrence Ave..R 32 
 St. Lawrence Ave .R 38 
 
 St. Louis Ave H 47 
 
 St. Louis Ave., N..H 21 
 
 St. Mary's Ct J 17 
 
 Stanley M 49 
 
 Stanton Ave R 30 
 
 Stan wood Ave P 49 
 
 Star Ave T 37 
 
 Starr P 18 
 
 State P 23 
 
 State K 54 
 
 State Ct O 15 
 
 State, N Q 21 
 
 Station . .K 16 
 
 Stare J 17 
 
 Stearns N 28 
 
 Stella N 13 
 
 Stephens I 23 
 
 Stephens X 48 
 
 Stephenson P 25 
 
 Stcrrett O 34 
 
 Steuben L 49 
 
 Stewart Ave E 12 
 
 Stewart Ave P 29 
 
 Stone ...Q 19 
 
 Stone Ave N 33 
 
 Stoner N 48 
 
 Stony Island Ave.. U 40 
 
 Storms Ave S 40 
 
 Stowell P 24 
 
 Strahom F 19 
 
 String O 26 
 
 Strong D 10 
 
 Strong Ave H 49 
 
 Sullivan O 19 
 
 Sullivan Ct N 28 
 
 Sultan P 32 
 
 Sulzer H 11 
 
 Summerdale L 9 
 
 Summer X 50 
 
 Summit K 30 
 
 Summit K 54 
 
 Sumner L 25 
 
 Sumner Ave W 42 
 
 Sunnyside K 11 
 
 Superior H 13 
 
 Superior P 21 
 
 Superior Ave Y 44 
 
 Superior Ave Y 55 
 
 Superior Ct N 21 
 
 Superior, W K 21 
 
 Surf O 15 
 
 Surry Ct M 16 
 
 Sutter O 34 
 
 Swan P 32 
 
 Switt M 8 
 
 Sycamore L 54 
 
 Talman Ave J 25 
 
 Talman Ave J 33 
 
 Talman Ave., N... J 19 
 Talman Ave., N... J 22 
 
 TassoPl K 48 
 
 Taylor P 24 
 
 Taylor, W L 24 
 
 Tell O 50 
 
 TellCt P 18 
 
 Tell PI M 20 
 
 Temple M 21 
 
 Temple M 45 
 
 Tenth Ave R 32 
 
 Terrace Ct O 29 
 
 The Bowery N 23 
 
 The Strand Y 43 
 
 The Strand Y 54 
 
 Third M 49 
 
 Third Ave R 49 
 
 Third Ave Y 49 
 
 Third Ave Z 54 
 
 Thirteenth Q 25 
 
 Thirteenth, W L 25 
 
 Thirtieth O 28 
 
 Thirtieth, W F 28 
 
 Thirty-first N 28 
 
 Thirty-first, W .... H 28 
 
 Thirty-second O 29 
 
 Thirty-second, W.J 29 
 
 Thirty-third O 29 
 
 Thirty-third Ct....N 29 
 Thirty-third P1....C 10 
 
 Thirty-fourth O 29 
 
 Thirty-fourth, N. . . C 16 
 Thirty-fourth Ct. . N 29 
 Thirty-fourth PL, 
 
 N C 16 
 
 Thirty-fifth N 29 
 
 Thirty-fifth Ct N 30 
 
 Thirty -fifth, W....E 29 
 
 Thirty-sixth O 30 
 
 Thirty-sixth PL... R 30 
 
 Thirty-seventh O .30 
 
 Thirty-seventh Ct..Q 30 
 
 Thirty-eighth O 30 
 
 Thirty-eighth Ct..N 30 
 
 Thirty-ninth Q 30 
 
 Thomas F 20 
 
 Thomas K 20 
 
 Thomas Ave I 15 
 
 Thomas Ave 1 17 
 
 Thomas Ave L 33 
 
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 Streets and Avenues— Continued. 
 
 Thome Ave M 7 
 
 Thompson E 19 
 
 Thompson Ave D 19 
 
 Thompson Ave G 33 
 
 Thorndale Ave....N 8 
 
 Thorndyke F 19 
 
 Thornton Ave S 54 
 
 Thornton Rd K 5> 
 
 Throop M 25 
 
 Tilden N 5i3 
 
 Todd O 26 
 
 Torrence Ave W 49 
 
 Town O 19 
 
 TowuCt O 19 
 
 Townsend O 20 
 
 Tower PI Q, 20 
 
 Transit Ave M 31 
 
 Transit Ave U 4t 
 
 Tremont H 23 
 
 Tremont Ave J 38 
 
 Tremont Ave J 48 
 
 Tremont Ave K 46 
 
 Tripp Ave F 17 
 
 Troy, N I 21 
 
 Troy, S 1 23 
 
 Troy, S I 28 
 
 Trumble Ave H 47 
 
 Trumble Ave N 45 
 
 Trumbull Ave H 28 
 
 Trumbull Ave.... H 34 
 Trumbull Ave., N..H 21 
 
 Truro I 25 
 
 Trustee L 21 
 
 Turner K 13 
 
 Turner Ave H 25 
 
 Turner Ave H 34 
 
 Turner Ave H 47 
 
 Twelfth P 24 
 
 Twelfth, W L 24 
 
 Twentieth P 26 
 
 Twentieth, W L 26 
 
 Twenty-first P 26 
 
 Twenty-first, W....L 26 
 
 Twenty-second P 27 
 
 Twenty-second, W.K '^6 
 Twenty-second PL. P 27 
 
 Twenty-third Q, 27 
 
 Twenty-third, W..II 27 
 Twenty-third P1...0 27 
 Twenty -fourth . . . Q 27 
 Twenty-fourth, W.U 27 
 Twenty-fourth PI.. O 27 
 
 Twenty-fifth Q 27 
 
 Twenty-fifth, W.... I 27 
 Twenty-fifth Ct. ..1 27 
 Twenty -fifth P1....0 27 
 
 Twenty sixth O 27 
 
 Twenty-sixth, W..G 28 
 Twenty-seventh .. .P 28 
 Twenty-seventh, WG 28 
 
 Twenty-eighth O 28 
 
 Twenty-eighth, W.G 28 
 Twenty-eighth PI.. O 28 
 
 Twenty-ninth O 28 
 
 Twenty-ninth, W..F 28 
 Twenty-ninth PI... P 2S 
 
 Twomey O 19 
 
 Tyson K 14 
 
 Uhland O 19 
 
 Ullman N 30 
 
 Unadilla L 50 
 
 Underwood Ave 1 31 
 
 Union K 53 
 
 Union O 26 
 
 Uuion O 34 
 
 Union Q, 48 
 
 Union, N O 21 
 
 Union PI J 23 
 
 Union PI O 27 
 
 Union Park P1....M 22 
 
 University PI R 29 
 
 Upton K 18 
 
 Utica I 24 
 
 Vail K 37 
 
 Van Buren P 23 
 
 VanBuren, W K 23 
 
 Van Horn K 26 
 
 Vaunalta Ave E 17 
 
 Van Usdeli K 33 
 
 Vedder O 19 
 
 Vermont K 54 
 
 Vermont Ave L 29 
 
 Vernon K 52 
 
 Vernon Ave E"l3 
 
 Vernon Ave R 29 
 
 Vernon Ave R 38 
 
 Vernon Park PI ... M 24 
 
 Verona Ave K 63 
 
 Victor M 8 
 
 Victoria Ave U 41 
 
 Vincennes Ave — R 3vJ 
 
 Vincennes Ave R 38 
 
 Vine .....b 17 
 
 Vine O 19 
 
 \ ine L 55 
 
 Virgil Ave 11 47 
 
 Wabansia Ave M 18 
 
 Wabansia Ave.W..J 18 
 
 Wabansie b 18 
 
 Wabash K 54 
 
 Wabash Ave I 44 
 
 Wabash Ave Q 30 
 
 Wade M 20 
 
 Waldou X 49 
 
 Waldo PI O 22 
 
 Walker L 49 
 
 Wall N 29 
 
 Wallace F 20 
 
 Wallace I 14 
 
 Wallace O 30 
 
 Wallace Ave I 15 
 
 WalleckPl K 26 
 
 Waller N 85 
 
 Walnut a 13 
 
 Walnut C 16 
 
 Walnut D 18 
 
 Walnut G 40 
 
 Walnut I 34 
 
 Walnut J 53 
 
 Walnut K 22 
 
 Walnut K 45 
 
 Walnut L 9 
 
 Walnut N 46 
 
 Walnut X 49 
 
 Walnut Ave. ... H 50 
 
 W^alshCt N 26 
 
 Walton PI Q 20 
 
 Ward J 30 
 
 Ward M 17 
 
 WardCt U 26 
 
 Warner Ave II 14 
 
 Warner Ave . L 12 
 
 Warren L 49 
 
 Warren Ave H 48 
 
 Warren Ave J 22 
 
 Warsaw Ave I 15 
 
 Washburne Ave...L 25 
 
 Washington E 11 
 
 Washington P 22 
 
 Wasliington P 34 
 
 Washington A ve . . . b 18 
 Washington .Ave. . . F 13 
 Washington Ave .G ?0 
 Washington Ave . . I 41 
 Washington Ave. . J 10 
 Washington Ave. . . K 48 
 Washington Ave...L 51 
 Washington Ave. . . L 55 
 Washington Ave. . .T 35 
 Washington Ave...T 44 
 Washington Boul.M 22 
 Washington Pk.. .F 10 
 Washington PI. . . P 20 
 Washington W .. F 22 
 Washington.W....O 22 
 Washtenaw Ave.. .J 23 
 Washtenaw Ave . .J 30 
 Washtenaw Ave., NJ 22 
 
HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 177 
 
 Streets and Avenues— Continued. 
 
 Water M 28 
 
 Watei>ide Ave Z 54 
 
 Waterville M 2!) 
 
 Watson H 47 
 
 Waubun Ave O 15 
 
 Waver O 27 
 
 Waverly PI M 22 
 
 Waveland Ave L 13 
 
 Wayman O 22 
 
 Wayne Ave M 9 
 
 Weage Ave H 19 
 
 Webb Ave H 37 
 
 Webber Ave L 7 
 
 Webster L 10 
 
 Webster H 13 
 
 Webster P 43 
 
 Webster Ave KIT 
 
 Webster Ave M 17 
 
 Webster Ave P 38 
 
 Weed N 19 
 
 Weld D 10 
 
 Wellington B 15 
 
 Wellington N 15 
 
 Wellington Ave. ..G 14 
 
 Wells, N P 21 
 
 Wendell P !C0 
 
 Wendell Ave W 42 
 
 Wentworth Ave. . . .P 28 
 
 Werder J 19 
 
 Wesson O 20 
 
 West X 49 
 
 West Ave G 50 
 
 West Ct 15 
 
 Western Ave K 23 
 
 Western Ave., 1SI...K 19 
 Western Ave.Boul.K 31 
 
 W.41st F 16 
 
 W. 41st F 22 
 
 W. 41st PI F 28 
 
 W. 42d F •-.2 
 
 W. 43d F-19 and 22 
 
 W. 43d PI F 25 
 
 W. 41th E ]ti 
 
 W. 44th F 22 
 
 W. 45th ....E-]6and 20 
 
 W. 45th PI E 15 
 
 W. 46th....E-]6 and 20 
 
 W. 46th PI E 2 5 
 
 W. 47th ....E-16and 20 
 W. 48th ....E-16aud 24 
 
 W. 49th D 21 
 
 W. 49th PI D 17 
 
 W. 50th D 11 
 
 W. 5lBt D 17 
 
 W. 51st PI 
 
 .1) 19 
 
 W. 53d 
 
 . . C 7 
 
 W. 53d PI 
 
 .CI? 
 
 W. 51th 
 
 ..c i;- 
 
 Westminster Ave 
 
 .F 27 
 
 Weston 
 
 M 4 ) 
 
 West Water N . . 
 
 .O W 
 
 West Water S. . 
 
 O !.2 
 
 Wharf. . .... 
 
 .0 26 
 
 Wharton Ave .... 
 
 .S 36 
 
 Wheaton 
 
 .H 20 
 
 Whipple 
 
 . I 23 
 
 Whipple Ave. . . . 
 
 ..I 27 
 
 Whiskey Point Rd.F 19 
 
 Whitehouse 
 
 .G 23 
 
 Whitehouse PL. . 
 
 .P 28 
 
 Whiting 
 
 ..P 20 
 
 Whitney 
 
 ..J ^'5 
 
 Whittier Ave 
 
 .W 51 
 
 Wieland 
 
 ..P 19 
 
 Wilbur Ave. .. . 
 
 .K 47 
 
 W^ilcox 
 
 . 1 23 
 
 Wilc'X 
 
 L 4) 
 
 Wilcox Ave 
 
 .H 4-1 
 
 Will 
 
 . .E 28 
 
 Will 
 
 .M 20 
 
 Willard PI 
 
 .M 22 
 
 Willett Ave 
 
 ..V 46 
 
 William 
 
 .G 40 
 
 William 
 
 H ^6 
 
 William 
 
 ..J 30 
 
 William 
 
 .M 43 
 
 William 
 
 .03.' 
 
 William 
 
 . . p ; 5 
 
 ^Villialn Ave . . . 
 
 .G 19 
 
 Willia d 
 
 .N 48 
 
 Willis 
 
 ..E 12 
 
 Willis Ct 
 
 .K 25 
 
 Willow 
 
 . L 50 
 
 Willow . 
 
 ..N 18 
 
 Willow Ave 
 
 . C 16 
 
 Willow Ave 
 
 ..N 13 
 
 Wilmot Ave 
 
 ..D 18 
 
 Wilinot Ave... . 
 
 1 16 
 
 Wilmot Ave 
 
 . K 18 
 
 Wilson 
 
 .U 25 
 
 Wilson Ave, 
 
 . K n 
 
 Wilton Ave .. 
 
 .N 13 
 
 Winchester Ave. 
 
 ..L 24 
 
 Winchester Ave . 
 
 ..L 37 
 
 Winchester Ave.. 
 
 ..L 42 
 
 Windelt Ave 
 
 .N 11 
 
 Winfield 
 
 . L 50 
 
 Windsor 
 
 .W 40 
 
 Windsor Ave N 11 
 
 Winneconnna Ave.O 40 
 
 Winnoua M 9 
 
 Winston M 45 
 
 WinthropAve N 8 
 
 Winthrop PI M 24 
 
 Wisconsin O 18 
 
 Wisner Ave II 15 
 
 Wolcott L 14 
 
 Wolfram G 15 
 
 AVolfram K 15 
 
 Wood a 18 
 
 Wood L-SGand 47 
 
 Wood X 49 
 
 Wood X 50 
 
 Wood, N L 21 
 
 Woodard II 15 
 
 Woodbine D 19 
 
 ^Voodbury Ave. ... I 44 
 Woodland Ave... I 13 
 
 W^oodland L fO 
 
 Woodland Pk K 29 
 
 ^Voodlawn A e . J 45 
 
 Woodlawn Ave T 37 
 
 Woodside Ave L 14 
 
 Work F 24 
 
 Worthen I 26 
 
 Wright L 9 
 
 Wright M 18 
 
 Wright O &7 
 
 W^rightAve K 11 
 
 Wright PI J 21 
 
 Wrightwood Ave..N 16 
 Wright wood Ave., 
 
 W C 16 
 
 Wyoming E 16 
 
 Yale P 43 
 
 Yale Ave P 37 
 
 Yates V 44 
 
 Yeaton L 24 
 
 York : J 53 
 
 York L 24 
 
 York PI O 15 
 
 Yorktown K 29 
 
 Young Q, 47 
 
 ZionPl M 26 
 
DISTANCES FROM CHICAGO 
 
 Via Rail to the Principal Cities of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. 
 
 To— Miles. 
 
 Albany, N. Y 837 
 
 Albuquerque, N. M 1,377 
 
 Altoona, Pa 585 
 
 Annapolis, Md 881 
 
 Atchison, Kan 505 
 
 Atlanta, Ga 795 
 
 Atlantic City, N. J 880 
 
 Augusta, Ga 966 
 
 Augusta, Maine 1,189 
 
 Austin, Tex 987 
 
 Baltimore, Md. 853 
 
 Bangor, Maine 1,263 
 
 Bismarck, N. D 854 
 
 Boston, Mass 1,039 
 
 Buffalo, N. Y 539 
 
 Burlington, Iowa 207 
 
 Burlington, Vt 1,182 
 
 CapeMay,N.J 903 
 
 Charleston, S. C 1,103 
 
 Chattanooga, Tenn 657 
 
 Cheyenne, Wyo 1,017 
 
 Cleveland, Ohio 356 
 
 Cincinnati, Ohio 293 
 
 City of Mexico 2,204 
 
 Columbus, Ohio 314 
 
 Concord, N. H 1,083 
 
 Council Bluffs, Iowa 488 
 
 Dallas, Tex 991 
 
 Davenport, Iowa 183 
 
 Dayton, Ohio 264 
 
 Denver, Colo 1,113 
 
 Des Moines, Iowa 357 
 
 Detroit, Mich 284 
 
 Daluth, Minn 477 
 
 JLliiPaso, Tex 1,630 
 
 Evansville, Ind 338 
 
 Fort Wayne, Ind 148 
 
 Fort Worth, Tex 1,023 
 
 Galveston, Tex 1,150 
 
 Gettysburg, Pa 771 
 
 Grand Rapids, Mich 182 
 
 Hamilton, Canada 472 
 
 Harrisburg, Pa 716 
 
 Hartford, Conn 1,011 
 
 Helena, Mont 1, 539 
 
 Hot Springs, Ark 693 
 
 Houston, Tex 1,099 
 
 Indianapolis, Ind 193 
 
 Jacksonville, Fla 1,248 
 
 Kansas City, Mo 458 
 
 Keokuk, Iowa 250 
 
 La Crosse, Wis 280 
 
 Lansing, Mich 245 
 
 Leadville, Colo 1,285 
 
 Leavenworth, Kan 484 
 
 Lincoln, Neb 552 
 
 Little Rock, Ark 710 
 
 Los Angeles, Cal 2,265 
 
 LiOuisviUe, Ky 297 
 
 To— Miles. 
 
 Macon, Ga 898 
 
 Madison, Wis 138 
 
 Memphis, Tenn 517 
 
 Milwaukee, Wis 85 
 
 Minneapolis, Minn 420 
 
 Mobile, Ala 845 
 
 Monterey, Mexico 1,531 
 
 Montgomery, Ala 870 
 
 Montpelier, Vt 1,224 
 
 Montreal, Canada 844 
 
 Nashville, Tenn 483 
 
 Newark, N.J 903 
 
 New Haven, Conn 915 
 
 New Orleans, La 915 
 
 Newport, R. 1 1,061 
 
 NewYork, N. Y 912 
 
 Niagara Falls, N. Y 513 
 
 Norfork, Va 957 
 
 Ogden, Utah 1,529 
 
 Omaha, Neb 492 
 
 Ottawa, Canada 786 
 
 Pensacola, Fla 972 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa 822 
 
 Pierre, S. D 776 
 
 Pittsburg, Pa 468 
 
 Portland, Maine 1,128 
 
 Portland, Ore 2,465 
 
 Quebec, Canada .1,116 
 
 Raleigh, N. C 1,154 
 
 Richmond, Va 933 
 
 Rochester, N. Y 609 
 
 Rock Island, 111 181 
 
 Sacramento, Cal 2,327 
 
 Saginaw, Mich 313 
 
 Salt Lake City, Utah 1,566 
 
 San Diego, Cal 2,347 
 
 San Francisco, Cal 2,417 
 
 Savan)iah, Ga 1,088 
 
 Seattle, Wash 2,361 
 
 Sioux City, Iowa 544 
 
 Spokane, Wash 1,921 
 
 Springfield, 111 185 
 
 Springfield, Mass 941 
 
 St. Louis, Mo 280 
 
 St. Paul, Minn 409 
 
 Syracuse, N. Y 690 
 
 Tacoma, Wash ...2,320 
 
 Tampa, Fla 1,489 
 
 Toledo, Ohio 243 
 
 Topeka,Kan 525 
 
 Toronto. Canada 516 
 
 Utica, N.Y 743 
 
 Vancouver, B. C 2,369 
 
 Vera Cruz, Mexico 2,467 
 
 Victoria, B. C 2,453 
 
 Washington, D. C 813 
 
 Wheeling, W. Va 468 
 
 Wilmington, Del 849 
 
 Winnipeg, Man 887 
 
INDEX. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 A BRAH AM Lincoln Statue 130 
 
 -^ Aid Societies 117 
 
 Alexian Brothers Hospital 143 
 
 American Dist. Messenger Co 54 
 
 Plan Hotels 40 
 
 Anarchists 1U9 
 
 Area of Chicago 21 
 
 Armstrong Bust 132 
 
 Arrival in Chicago 31 
 
 Art Collections 128 
 
 Art in Chicago 127 
 
 Art Institute 127 
 
 Ashland Block 39 
 
 Athletics 66 
 
 Auditorium Hotel 
 
 " Opera House 60 
 
 BAGGAGE 37 
 Balls 62 
 
 Banks of Chicago 96 
 
 Baptists 114 
 
 Barlow's Pavilion 110 
 
 Bar-rooms 63 
 
 Baseball 66 
 
 Baths 43 
 
 Battle of Gettysbjirg 62 
 
 Beer Gardens 63 
 
 Benevolent Institutions 150 
 
 Bicycling 67 
 
 Board of Trade 158 
 
 Boating 66 
 
 Books on Chicago 15 
 
 Boulevards 73 
 
 Bridewell 25 
 
 Buildings 83 
 
 Bureau of Justice 154 
 
 pABLE Car Routes 47 
 
 ^ Calumet Electric Road 50 
 
 Cemeteries 146 
 
 Central Detail 26 
 
 Characteristics of Prominent 
 
 Hostelries 42 
 
 Charities 149 
 
 Chicago Athenaeum 122 
 
 " Fire Cy clorama 62 
 
 " General Facts as to 11 
 
 " Harbor 101 
 
 " Personified 11 
 
 River 101 
 
 " Telephone Co 55 
 
 Chinese Restaurant 107 
 
 Churches 113 
 
 Cicero and Proviso Elec. Road. . , 51 
 
 Circus 62 
 
 City Hall 22 
 
 Climate 15, 21 
 
 Clubs 133 
 
 Columbus Statue 129 
 
 Combination Plan Hotels 41 
 
 Commerce 155 
 
 Commercial Buildings 83 
 
 Concert Halls 110 
 
 Congregational 115 
 
 Consuls, Foreign 45 
 
 Contents 5 
 
 Cook County Hospital 141 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Coroner, Work of 1 14 
 
 Court House 22 
 
 Courts 25 
 
 Crerar Library 126 
 
 Cricket 66 
 
 Criminal Court 25 
 
 DANCE Halls 110 
 Dancing 62 
 
 Day Nurseries 152 
 
 Delivery of Baggage 37 
 
 Detectives 26 
 
 Dispensaries 141, 144 
 
 Douglas Monument 130 
 
 Park 78 
 
 Drake Fountain 129 
 
 Drainage, 27 
 
 EDEN Musee 61 
 Educational 119 
 
 Elevated Railways 46 
 
 Engftl's Pavilion 110 
 
 Episcopal 115 
 
 European Plan Hotels 41 
 
 Extras in Hotels 42 
 
 "OARWELL, J. V. & Co 86 
 
 -•- Female Benevolent Societies 152 
 
 Field Sports 66 
 
 Financial Position of Chicago a* 
 
 Finns •.• 109 
 
 Fire Department 26 
 
 " Inscription 130 
 
 Fireworks 62 
 
 Fishing 66 
 
 Foreign Consuls 45 
 
 Fort Dearborn 14 
 
 Inscrlptioa 131 
 
 " " Massacre 16,132 
 
 " " Monument 132 
 
 Free Masons 136 
 
 Fruit and Vegetable Market 160 
 
 Furnished Rooms 43 
 
 riARFIELD Park 79 
 
 ^ " " Club 64 
 
 " Statue 130 
 
 Getting About the City 46 
 
 Grain Market 160 
 
 Grant Monument 130 
 
 Great Fire 18 
 
 " " Inscription 130 
 
 TTACK and Cab Ordinance 37 
 
 -'--'- Hansom Cabs 38 
 
 Hawthorne Track 64 
 
 Health Department 26 
 
 Herald Building 90 
 
 Historical Summary 15 
 
 History of Chicago 15 
 
 Home Insurance 96 
 
 Horse-car Routes 47 
 
 Hospitals 141 
 
 Hotels . 38 
 
 House of Correction 25 
 
 Humane Societies 153 
 
 Humboldt Park 80 
 
HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 PLUMINATION 29 
 
 Illustrations, List of 7 
 
 Insurance. 27 
 
 Exchange . 86 
 
 Introduction - 9 
 
 TAIL 25 
 
 ^ John Brown's Fort 62 
 
 Judea 1Q9 
 
 Juvenile Institutions 152 
 
 T ADIES' Luncheon Places 45 
 
 -L^ Lake Michigan 101 
 
 Lake Front Park 74 
 
 " Transportation 103 
 
 La Salle Statue ". 130 
 
 Lectures 61 
 
 Levee 106 
 
 Libby Prison 61 
 
 Libraries 125 
 
 Life on the Levee . . lO'j 
 
 Lincoln Park 80 
 
 Linnaeus Statue 130 
 
 List of Illustrations 7 
 
 Little Italy 109 
 
 Lodging and Boarding Houses 43 
 
 Lutheran 116 
 
 MANUFACTURES 155 
 Markets of City 155 
 
 Market Wagon Stand 160 
 
 Marshall Field & Co 84 
 
 Masonic Temple 90 
 
 Mayor 24 
 
 McMlchael Sanitarium 161 
 
 Meaning of the word Chicago — 12 
 
 Medical Colleges 120 
 
 Mercy Hospital 141 
 
 Methodist 116 
 
 Michael Reese Hospital 141 
 
 Military Affairs 140 
 
 Missions 117 
 
 Monuments of Chicago 128 
 
 Morgue 144 
 
 Municipal Government 24 
 
 Musical Entertainments 61 
 
 Mutual District Telegraph Co.. . 54 
 
 NATATORIUMS 43 
 National Guard 140 
 
 Nationalities 22 
 
 Newberry Library 126 
 
 Niagara Panorama 61 
 
 Night Ramble 104 
 
 Night Workers llO 
 
 Nocturnal Rambling 104 
 
 Northwestern University 123 
 
 Nurses 141 
 
 Nursing 144 
 
 OCEAN Steamships 102 
 
 Omnibus and Baggage liates. 38 
 
 Opium Dens 108 
 
 Orphan Asylums 151 
 
 Ottawa Indian Group 130 
 
 OutiroiiiK I'.iiggage 37 
 
 Oyst(a- Saloons 45 
 
 PARKS of Chicago 73 
 Patrol Service 26 
 
 Phenix insurance Building 86 
 
 paOe 
 
 Police Courts. . . 25 
 
 " Headquarters 26 
 
 " Monument 128 
 
 Population 15, 21 
 
 Post Office 52 
 
 Presbyterian Churches 116 
 
 " Hospital 142 
 
 Principal Office Buildings 92 
 
 Prisons 25 
 
 Public Library > 125 
 
 Pullman Building 88 
 
 EACING and Athletic Sports. . . 64 
 Railroad Depots, etc 31 
 
 Ramble at Night 104 
 
 Rand-McNally Building 84 
 
 Reformed Episcopal Churches 116 
 
 Religious Missions 117 
 
 Restaurants 43, 107 
 
 Rialto Building 86 
 
 Rookery. 84 
 
 QT. ELIZABETH'S Hospital.... 143 
 
 *^ St. Joseph's Hospital 143 
 
 St. Luke's Free Hospital 143 
 
 Schiller Building 90 
 
 Statue 130 
 
 Secret Orders 135 
 
 Sheridan Staiue 130 
 
 Siegel, Cooper & Co 88 
 
 Slumming 104 
 
 Socialists 109 
 
 Special Trade District 69 
 
 Spiritualist 116 
 
 Squares 73 
 
 State's Prison 25 
 
 Statistics 15 
 
 Stock Yards 155 
 
 Sub Post Offices 54 
 
 Suggestions as to Shoppi: g 68 
 
 Sunday in Chicago 112 
 
 Swedenborgian Churches 116 
 
 rpELEGRAPHS 54 
 
 -*- Telephones 55 
 
 The Temple 90 
 
 Theaters 57 
 
 Theological Colleges 121 
 
 Tour of the City 83 
 
 Tricycling 67 
 
 Turf and Turf men 64 
 
 Turfmen's Resorts 65 
 
 TTNION Law College 119 
 
 ^ Unitarian 117 
 
 Unity Building 88 
 
 Unlversallst 116 
 
 University of Chicago 122 
 
 U. S. Marine Hospital 142 
 
 "VTAUDEVILLE Entertainments 60 
 
 WASHINGTON Park 77 
 " Club 64 
 
 Water Supply 28 
 
 Wine, Women, and Song 110 
 
 Winter Sports 67 
 
 VACHTING ' 
 
 JL y.M.C.A -.. 
 
 Y. W.C. A 117 
 
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 Beautifully pictured.— C/i/cafifo Times. 
 The word-painting is superb. — Loroell Times. 
 
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