Aldermen Push Measured Reform and Street Plans in Chicago
Unanimous aldermanic action backs revising state auto rules to grant Chicago power to regulate drivers. Tracks to rise on the Austin line. Robey Street aims to replace Halsted as West Side main artery with widening and obstructions removal. Firearm ordinance updates, marble City Hall contract, Lincoln Centennial plans, and public library budget outlined amid political maneuvers.
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Thompson
Chicago Automobile Club
Austin
Chicago & Oak Park Railroad
Foreman
C. Kohlsaar
George Belcler
John PF. Smulski
Fred M. Blount
Andrew J. Graham
Roger C. Sullivan
Daniel A. Campbell
Charles W. Wall
Jesse Holdom
Peter Roinberg
Balmoral Avenue
Lake View
Eighty-Seventh Street
Foell
Barnes
Judiciary Committee
Jew City
Courtell
John Pierce Company
Committee On Or
Carbondile Machinery Company
United State Service
Tube Company
Green Engineering Company
Tranberg
Hayes
General Assembly
Alderman McCord
Judiciary
Dunn
Lincoln Park Commissioners
Garden Street
Stanton Park
Lvde Park Boulevard
Drexel Boulevard
East End Avenue
40Th Street
Wis
South Park Commissioners
Ublir
Cornell
Comme
Trosman
Juc Ciry
Novak
Zinmer
Harding
Lincoln centennial plans urged by city leaders
Mayor Busse asks city council to join the special commission in marking Abraham Lincoln's birth centennial during February 7 to 14. The message notes the committee of one hundred, led by William J. Calhoun as president and Colonel Nathan MacChesney as secretary, is coordinating public gatherings and commemorative events.
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Lincoln
Busse
Abraham Lincoln
Committee of
One Hundred
William J. Calhoun
Nathan MacChesney
City Building Department Revenue Rises in 1908 Report
Murdoch Campbell, building commissioner, notes a 15 percent increase in building department revenue for 1908. Receipts reached 150 207 dollars, up from 115 082 dollars the year before, and exceeded expenditures for the first time in the department's history. Alderman Milton Foreman signals a vigorous fight for a new charter measure, with the draft act printed and ready for submission to the charter convention on January 23, then to Springfield. Readers may submit suggestions to listed officials.
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Building Department
Murdoch Campbell
Chicago
Milton
Foreman
Springfield
Senate
House
New Bank Officers Elected in Chicago Banks
Chicago banks held their annual officer elections on Tuesday with few changes from last year. G. M. Wilson and FP Sehreiber swapped posts at Union Trust Company, while officers at Hibernian Banking Association Illinois Trust and Savings Bank and other major institutions were named, listing presidents, vice presidents, cashiers, and directors across the city’s leading banks.
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John FP. Smulski
West Park
Smulski
Addison FE. Wells
Addison 0. Wells
Joseph A. O'Donnell
Chicago
Union
Trout Com
G. M. Wilson
FP. T. Sehreiber
Mr. Wilson
Hibernian Banking Association
J. W. Clarke
D.R. Lewis
Clarke
William A. Hleath
Louis J. Chirke
Tt. HE. McElowee
Illinois Trust and Savings Bank
John J. Mitchel Dents
Mitchell
Haskell
Chauncey Keep
Ter A. Wain
BD. M. Chattell
Ot. Cooper
State Bank of Chicago
H. A. Haugan
L. A. Goddard
John J. Lindgren
Henry 8. Henschen
Frank L Packard
Henry A. Hauga
Keep
Samuel B. Knecht
William @. Miller
David N. Barker
J. Z. Day
Calvin Durand
Theodore Freeman
D. A. Goddard
J. A. Haugan
John 2. Lindgren
Thomas Murdock
William A. Peterson
George BE. Richards
Moses J. Wentworth
Commercial National Bank
Franklin MacVeagh
Wm. J. Chaleners
Robert T. Lincoln
IL Diary
Darius Miller
Charles PF. Spalding
William V. Kelley
Robert IL. McElwee
Alexander FP
Banks
Russell
Alefred Cowles
Joseph
Talbert
Ralph van Vechten
George B. Roberts
Election Board sets primary for City Clerk Treasurer wards
The Board of Election Commissioners on Wednesday issued memoranda for the primary to choose City Clerk and City Treasurer and one Alderman from each of 35 wards plus one Alderman in the twelfth Ward due to Municipal Judge Uhlir’s resignation. Petitions must be filed between Jan 25 and Feb 8 and include names equal to at least one half of one percent of the highest vote cast in that subdivision for a candidate of the party in the November election.
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Board of Election Commissioners
Fed
Uhlir
Ust
Tropkins introduces bill to raise Panama Canal funding limit
United States Senator Albert J Tropkins in the Senate Tuesday urged an amendment to the Spooner act to boost the Panama Canal financing from 135 million to 500 million dollars. The Senate appropriations committee reports total expenditures already at 179 million, including 40 million paid to the French Canal Company. Hopkins said a final cost under 350 million is possible, but a wide margin is prudent.
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United States
Albert J. Tropkins
Senate
Spooner
Panama Canal
Ceatlal
Senate Committee On Appropriations
Hopkins
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West Side
George A. Mugler
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Addison EF. Wells
Bernard A. Eckhart
William C. Eggert
Jens Jensen
Benjamin FB. Richolson
A.C. Schrader
Frank P. Tyrrell
Wells
Jensen
Albert J. Hopkins
Illinois State Brewers Association
Ernest Fecker, Jr
Danville
George Relsch
Edward ©. Lolay
Peoria
Joseph Theurer
William L. Hoerber
Charles J. Vopicka
Christian Henning
Mendota
George W. Vielg
Belleville
Frank Shlaudeman
Decatur
Ilef. Plepenbrink
Joliet
Milton J. Foreman
R. R. McCormick
Joseph Badenoch
John P. McGoorty
William H. Baker
M. L. McKinley
Walter EB. Beebe
Chas. E. Merriam
Albert W. Benfusa
W. R. Michaelis
Frank I. Bennett
Theodore Debne
P. Brosseau
Jos
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Wm. M. Brown
John F. Owens
Richard E
Ne Gee
J. Thompson
Chas
J. Vopicka
Edwin K. Walker
Charles Verne
A. White
R. Wilkins
John P. Wilson
Edward C. Young
Michael Zimmer
Mack
Adolf Kraus
Philip Stein
Sigmund Zeisler
Adams A. Goodrich
William A. Doyle
William HH. Barnum
Louis Levy
Granville W. Browning
George A. Trude
William P. Black
Robert Redfield
John E. Owens
James Hamilton Lewis
Charles A. McDonald
W. BD. Munhall
John P
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