Building for the Centuries: Illinois, 1865 to 1898 |
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Page xiii
... state agencies had not yet begun to proliferate and the state payroll was well under 5,000 employees . Total state expenditures for the 1864-66 biennium came to just over $ 5,000,000 . The most outward and visible sign of the state's ...
... state agencies had not yet begun to proliferate and the state payroll was well under 5,000 employees . Total state expenditures for the 1864-66 biennium came to just over $ 5,000,000 . The most outward and visible sign of the state's ...
Page xiv
... state's largest industry was agricul- ture . Large portions of the state's fertile mid - section lay still un- drained and unfenced , but farm production composed the state's greatest wealth . The plainly adorned farmstead symbolized ...
... state's largest industry was agricul- ture . Large portions of the state's fertile mid - section lay still un- drained and unfenced , but farm production composed the state's greatest wealth . The plainly adorned farmstead symbolized ...
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... state legislature . Nowhere was the tension more evident than in the matter of state control of many of the city's important functions . The population of the city had grown from 12 percent of the state's population in 1870 to 35 ...
... state legislature . Nowhere was the tension more evident than in the matter of state control of many of the city's important functions . The population of the city had grown from 12 percent of the state's population in 1870 to 35 ...
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Structure of Governmental Power | 35 |
Of Men and Machines | 72 |
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