Building for the Centuries: Illinois, 1865 to 1898 |
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... capital city with such prominent statesmen as Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas , kept it at a high pitch of excitement . Demands upon the state government made by the Civil War focused great attention upon the little city . During ...
... capital city with such prominent statesmen as Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas , kept it at a high pitch of excitement . Demands upon the state government made by the Civil War focused great attention upon the little city . During ...
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... capital city seemed anxious to develop identity outside of govern- ment . Business was relatively more important to the city than it had been in the turbulent , though in many ways simpler , period before the Civil War or than it was to ...
... capital city seemed anxious to develop identity outside of govern- ment . Business was relatively more important to the city than it had been in the turbulent , though in many ways simpler , period before the Civil War or than it was to ...
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... capital site . But the Chicago Tribune observed that agitation to move the capital to Peoria was “ a shrewd Chicago trick , " for if it were ever decided to move the seat of government " all [ the ] reasons which have been urged in ...
... capital site . But the Chicago Tribune observed that agitation to move the capital to Peoria was “ a shrewd Chicago trick , " for if it were ever decided to move the seat of government " all [ the ] reasons which have been urged in ...
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Of People and Places | 1 |
Structure of Governmental Power | 35 |
Of Men and Machines | 72 |
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