Chicago and Its Distinguished Citizens, or the Progress of Forty Years: Being a Record of the Important Events in the History of Chicago, and a Description of Its Industries, Professions and Societies, Together With Biographical Sketches of Prominent Citi —— Being a Record of the Important Events in the History of Chicago, and a Description of Its Industries, Professions and Societies, Together With Biographical Sketches of Prominent Citizens

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ISBN: 9781333315429 出版年：2018 页码：815 David Ward Wood Forgotten Books

The very best enterprise of the nation and the world has made Chicago what we have thus described her to be. Thriftlessness cannot build up a magnificent city and an extensive commerce upon a miry marsh or a bleak prairie. The men who first came to the spot where Chicago now stands.