Deep waterway plans collapse as war budget cuts loom
Report to Secretary of War shows river and harbor appropriations for 1912 total over 30 million dollars with Illinois projects Calumet river Waukegan harbor and Chicago river funded while deep channel schemes for Missouri river are omitted. Cook County Democrats prepare inaugural events and a grand Iroquois Club banquet honors recent landslide victories.
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Dickinson
Washington
Bixby
United States Army
Congress
MacVeagh
Taft
Chicago
Illinois River
Missouri
St. Louis
Kansas City
Army
Ilinois
Calumet River
Waukegan Harbor
Chicago River
Iroquois Club
la Salle Hotel
James G. Condon
Roger C. Sullivan
Lyndon Evans
Edward O. Brown
Harry P Dolan
Gregory
Samuel Alschuler
Joseph B. David
E. B. To
National
House
Senate
City Aldermen Form Committee to Probe Garment Strike
Chicago council votes to appoint a three member committee to mediate the 40 000 garment workers strike. Aldermen Merriam Ryan and Dunn named. mayor adds own picks as officials push for settlement. New measures include milk railcar ordinance defeat and Edison Park street renumbering.
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Chicago
Merriam
Moni
Mousely
Foell
Busse
Connery
Ryan
Dunn
City Milk Commission
Twenty-fifth Ward
Martin
Hey
Atpatel
Twigg
Mill Truat
Edison Park
Health Department
Wilson
Harkin
Carrol A. Teller
Council
Teller
Michael Zimmer
Thomas F. Scully
William B. Dever
Nonpartisan Organization Committee
Richert
Reinberg
Zimmer
Frank J. Wilson
Scully
Anton J. Cermak
William F. Ryan
Dever
Frank P. Danish
James B. Bowler
Charles Twigg
John A. Richert
Henry L. Fick
Dennis J. Egan
John J. Brennan
Willam PF. Ryan
Edward FF Cullerton
Kovaleski
Board of Assessors
Illinois gains four more congressmen in new census
The 1910 census shows Illinois at 5,638,691 residents, boosting representation by four seats, with Cook County contributing two. Illinois’s population rises by 817,041 (16.9%) since 1900, which had 4,821,650 people. Politicians lament Illinois still has only twenty-nine representatives.
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Cook County
County Service
Illinois
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Springfield
Hruby
War Department
Jake
State Senate
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Deneen
Charles F. Hurburgh
Galesburg
Republican Senate
The
United Societies
Cermak
Peter Bartzen
County Board
County Civil Service Commissioners
County Civil Service Board
City Civil Service Board
Charles J. Vopicka
William Legner
John J. Bradley
Murdoch Campbell
David R. Forgan
John M. Roach
Consolidated Traction Company
United States Circuit Court
Martin, Hey, Atpatel
Milk Trust
Dever and
Graham
EB J Stack
William J. Moxley
Frank Buchanan
Lundin
Moss
Richard J. Finnegan
Thomas A. Smyth
Sanitary Board
Subway
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