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Chicago In 1846

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Day
5
Month
July
Year
1878
Copyright
Public Domain
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In a letter witten in Illinois in July, 1846, the late Mr. Bryant tlms described Chicago: " Any one who had seon this place, as I had done, five years ago, when it contained lees than 5,000 people, would find some diiïieulty in recognizing it now, when its population is more than 15,000. It has its long rows of warehouse3 and shops, its bustling streets ; its huge steamei's and crowds of lake oraft lying at the wharves; its villas embowered with trees; and its snburbs, consisting of -Hm cottages of Germán and Irinli laborer, stretching northward along the lake, and westward into the prairies, and widening every day. The slovenly appearanee of a new settlement begins in many parts to disappear. The Germans have already a garden in a little grove for their holidays, as in their towns in the old countrj; and the Roman Oatholics Lave just finished a college for the education of those who are to proselyte the West."

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Old News
Michigan Argus