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... railroads we can get . " The Chicago Times , whose city had already profited more from its railroads than had any other municipality , bubbled greedily that wealth from the railroads " will so overflow our coffers with gold that our ...
... railroads we can get . " The Chicago Times , whose city had already profited more from its railroads than had any other municipality , bubbled greedily that wealth from the railroads " will so overflow our coffers with gold that our ...
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... railroad bonds . Foreclosures were given wide newspaper publicity , especially by the Chicago press . The city had not bonded itself in support of railroads , but the merchants com- plained of erratic rate schedules and the ...
... railroad bonds . Foreclosures were given wide newspaper publicity , especially by the Chicago press . The city had not bonded itself in support of railroads , but the merchants com- plained of erratic rate schedules and the ...
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... railroads in this state . " 24 Municipal subscrip- tion to the capital stock of railroads as well as donations or loans of credit from the same source were forbidden except where already voted by the people . Governor Palmer told the ...
... railroads in this state . " 24 Municipal subscrip- tion to the capital stock of railroads as well as donations or loans of credit from the same source were forbidden except where already voted by the people . Governor Palmer told the ...
Contents
Of People and Places | 1 |
Structure of Governmental Power | 35 |
Of Men and Machines | 72 |
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| Title | Building for the Centuries: Illinois, 1865 to 1898 Volume 4 of Sesquicentennial history of Illinois |
| Author | John Howard Keiser |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press, 1977 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 Aug 2006 |
| ISBN | 0252006178, 9780252006173 |
| Length | 386 pages |
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