A. T. Andreas History of Chicago

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. When the period of tradition and speculative possibilities is past, the reader will discover that the primary quality of our plan is detail, and the further, advanced the work becomes the more apparent does this fact grow. One of the-most serious Obstacles encountered by the historian in the pursuit of his vocation is scarcity of reliable data. Whenever the patient searcher for historic truth is rewarded by the discovery of some forgotten script or volume, the world of letters hails the treasure with delight; and it needs no argument to convince the intelligent that had not men failed to realize that the trifles of to-day become the vital elements of the historic works of the future, this deficiency would not exist. It is the purpose Of this History to combine the scattered items Of fact into convenient form, and, at the hazard of too great redundancy, preserve all that can be found descriptive of the past of Chicago.