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Fort Dearborn established.
Fort Dearborn massacre...
Chicago surveyed and platted.
Cook county organized.

CHICAGO AT A GLANCE.

.1803 Fire engine companies-128.
.Aug. 15, 1812 Fire hook and ladder companies-37.
1830 Fire insurance patrols-9.
Homes (1920)-623,910.
Hospitals-84.

.1831

Town of Chicago incorporated... August, 1833
City of Chicago incorporated....March 4, 1837
First election held..
March 31, 1837
First money panic.
.1837
First railroad opened.
.1848
Cholera epidemie..
.1854
Second money panic.
1857

Great fire (loss $200.000.000).Oct. 8-9. 1871
Third financial panic.

1873

Incorporated under general law April 23, 1875

Savings bank crash.
World's Fair held.
Centennial celebrated.
Iroquois theater fire.
Eastland disaster.
Race riots..

.1877 .1893

Sept. 26-30, 1903
.Dec. 30, 1903

..July 24, 1915

July 27-Aug. 2. 1919

Population (Jan. 1, 1925)-2.964.875.

all purposes

Appropriations.

(1924)-$170.

951,013.94.

Area in square miles-204.88.

Assessed valuation, total all property (1923)
-$1,788,665,379.

Assets, fixed (1923)-$275,317,722.
Asylums-137.

Banks, national and state, in Chicago and sub-
urbs-250.

Boulevards, mileage of-84.

Building permits issued (1923)-15,494.
Cemeteries, number of-61.

Churches, chapels and missions-1.200.
Clearings by associated banks (1923)-$33.-
460,511,287.

Debt gross funded (1923)-$61,045,900.
Dispensaries-22.
Elevation-Above sea level. 600 feet: above
Lake Michigan. 19 feet.

Employes on city pay roll (1923)-34,604.
Exports, direct (1924)-$12,948,276.

Firemen, number of, including officers-2.455.
Fireboats-6.

Fire engines-128.

Imports of merchandise (1924)—$45,599.189
Internal revenue collected in Chicago district
(1924)-$198,287,627.12.
Latitude-N. 41 deg. 53 min. 6 sec.

Length of city, north to south, miles-26.
Lights, street, in service-65,000.
Libraries-27.
Longitude-87 deg. 38 min. 1 sec. west.
Mail carriers (1924)-2,557.

Mail, pieces of, handled, fiscal year (1924) -
2,597.477.370.

Manufactures in 1919, value of product$3,658,740,000.

Medical schools-29.

Newspapers and periodicals-800.
Parks, area of public, in acres 3,949.
Police force, all branches-5,965,

Postal receipts, year ended June 30, 1924-
$52.473,003.36.

Postal savings banks depositors
14.992.

Pupils enrolled in public schools

474,945.

(1924)

(1924)

Railroads (divisions not included) entering Chicago-27.

Real estate transfers (1923)-85,678; consid-
eration, $116.907,943.

Revenue, municipal (1922)-$133,821,875.60.
Schools, public, number of-306.
Street. longest (Western avenue), miles-23%
Street railway mileage-1.350.

personal

Streets and alleys, total mileage-5,160.
Teachers in public schools (1924)-11.693.
Tonnage of vessels cleared (1923)-13.524.311.
Value (actual) of real estate and
property (1923)-83,577,330,758.
Water used per day-788,460,240 gallons.
Width of city, east to west-9 miles.
Workers, gainful (1920)-1.231,307.

GOVERNMENT REPORT ON CHICAGO FOOD PRICES.

[From the Monthly Labor Review of the bureau of labor statistics.]

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ALMANAC AND YEAR-BOOK FOR 1925.

Year. 1844..

1845..

Per 1,000 lation. Deaths. of pop. 336 33.04 344 28.46

1846..

1847.. 1848.. 1849.. 1850..

1855..

1856..

CHICAGO MORTALITY STATISTICS. [From reports of health department.] PopuPer 1,000 lation. Deaths. of pop. Year. 1872.. 367,396 10,156 27.64 1873.. 380,000 1874.. 395,408 16,859 572 33.93 1875.. 400.500 7,899 19.72 20.023 638 31.86 1876.. 407.661 8,573 21.03 23.047 1,701 73.80 1877.. 430.000 8.026 18.67 29.963 1,467 48.96 1878.. 436.731 7.422 16.99 1851.. 34.000 927 27.26 491,516 8.614 17.53 1852.. 38.734 503.185 10.462 20.79 1853.. 59.130 540.000 14,101 26.11 1854.. 65.872 560.693 13.234 23.60 580,000 11,555 19.92 629.885 12,471 19.80 665.000 12.474 18.76 703.715 13.699 19.47 760.000 15.409 20.27 1888.. 802.651 15,772 19.65 1889.. 935,000 16.946 18.12 1890..1,099.850 21,856 19.87 1891..1.148.795 27,754 24.16 1892..1.199.730 26.219 21.85 1893..1.253.022 27,083 21.61 1894..1.308.682 23,892 18.26 1895..1.366.813 24.219 17.72 1896..1.427.527 23.257 16.29 1897..1,490.937 21.809 14.63 1898..1.557.164 22.793 14.64

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1857..
1858.. 90.000
1859.. 93.000 2.008 21.59
1860.. 109,206 2.264 20.73
1861.. 120.000 2.279 18.99
1862.. 138.186 2.835 20.52
1863.. 150.000 3,875 25.83
1864.. 169,353 4.448 26.26
1865.. 178,492 4,029 22.57
1866.. 200.418 6.524 32.55
1867.. 225.000 4.773 21.21
1868.. 252.054 5.984 23.74
1869.. 280.000 6.488 23.17
1870.. 306.605 7.323 23.88
1871.. 324.270 6.976 20.87

SUMMARY FOR 1923 AND 1922.

Per 1,000 Year. lation. Deaths. of pop. 1899..1,626,333 25.503 15.68 1900..1.698.575 24.941 14.68 1901..1,751,968 24.406 13.93 1902..1.801.255 26.455 14.69 1903..1.850,542 28.914 15.62 1904..1.899.829 26.311 13.85 1905..1,949,116 27.212 13.96 1906..1,998,403 29.048 14.54 1907..2.047.690 32,198 15.72 1908..2.096,977 30.388 14.49 1910..2,195,551 33,241 15.14 1909..2,146,264 31,296 14.58 1911..2.244,835 32.672 14.55 1912..2.294.120 33.998 14.68 1913..2.344.018 35.298 15.06 1914..2,393,325 33.952 14.19 1915..2.447.845 34.894 14.25 1916..2,497.722 36.410 14.53 1917..2.547.201 38,055 14.90 1918..2,596,681 44.605 17.17 1919..2.674.921 33.666 12.59 1920..2.728.022 34.841 12.74 1921..2.780,655 30,819 11.08 1922..2,833,288 31,700 11.18 Note-The population is for 1923..2.886,971 33,771 11.70 midyear.

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1923.

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0.053

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Measles

206

0.713

152

0.536

*0.177

Scarlet fever

84

0.291

110

0.388

0.097

Whooping cough

137

0.474

97

0.342

*0.132

Diphtheria

365

1.264

561

1,980

0.713

Influenza

428

1.482

317

1.119

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Dysentery

4

0.013

4

0.014

0.001

Other epidemic diseases

8

0.026

10

0.035

0.009

Tetanus

20

0.069

21

0.074

0.005

Pellagra

2

0.006

2

0.007

0.001

Tuberculosis of lungs

2,008

6,955

1,910

6.741

*0.214

Other forms of tuberculosis.

327

1.132

310

1.094 *0.038

Cancer

2.964

10.266

2,800

9.882

*0.384

Diabetes

627

2.172

623

2.199

0.027

Meningitis, simple

41

0.141

100

0.352

0.211

Cerebro-spinal fever.

32

0.111

27

0.095

*0.016

Acute anterior poliomyelitis

4

0.013

15

0.053

0.040

Cerebral hemorrhage

1,723

5.968

1,563

5.517

*0.451

Convulsions (infants)

5

0.017

8

0.028

0.011

Heart diseases (all).

5.547

19.214

5.498

19.405

0.191

Bronchitis, acute

278

0.963

233

0.822

*0.141

Bronchitis, chronic

Pneumonia (all forms)

Under 2 years

Over 2 years

80

0,277

0.437 124

0.160

3.745

12.972

2,779

9.808

*3.164

Diarrhea and enteritis

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0.601

134

0.464

153

0.540

0.07

Appendicitis and typhlitis

555

1.922

505

1.782

*0.14

Cirrhosis of liver

269

0.932

228

0.805

*0.12

Nephritis, acute

81

0.280

66

0.233

*0.04

Nephritis, chronic

2,656

9.199

2.247

7.931

*1.26

Puerperal septicemia

91

0.315

56

0.198

0.11

Congenital defects and malformations

2.281

7.901

2,313

8.164 0.26

Suicide

386

1.337

398

1.405

0.06

Accidents

2.095

7.257

2,040

7.180

*0.07

Homicide

389

1.347

331

1.168

*0.17

Sunstroke and heat exhaustion.

17

0.058

17

0.060

0.00

Legal execution

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0.003

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17.665

4.787

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4.783

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0.278

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0.399

1.120

0.395

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2.375

0.822

2.241

0.791

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CHICAGO CITY CLERKS SINCE 1837.

1837 A. J. Marble.......1861-1862 | Charles D. Gastfield 1893-1895 George Davis.. 1837-1838 H. W, Zimmerman..1863-1864 J. R. B. Van Cleave.1895-1897

William H. Brackett

Thomas Hoyne.....
James M. Lowe.

E. A. Rucker
William S. Brown..

1839 Albert H. Bodman..1865-1869 1840-1841 Charles T. Hotchkiss1869-1873 1843 Jos. K. C. Forrest..1873-1875 1844-1845 Caspar Butz.

1876-1878 1845 P. J. Howard. ..1879-1883 Henry B. Clarke....1846-1847 1. G. Neumeister... 1883-1885 Sidney Abell. ....1848-1850 C. Herman Plautz..1885-1887 H. W. Zimmerman..1851-1856 D. W. Nickerson...1887-1889 H. Kreisman .1857-1859 Franz Amberg......1889-1891 1860 J. R. B. Van Cleave.1891-1893

Abraham Kohn.....

.1905-1907

William Loeffler....
...1897-1903
Fred C. Bender.....1903-1905
A. C. Anson..
John R. McCabe....1907-1909
F. D. Connery. ..1909-1915
John Siman. ..1915-1917
Joseph Siman. .1917-1917

James T. Igoe......1917-1923
Al F. Gorman......1923............

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