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Newspaper

Chicago Eagle

Location

Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Jul 20, 1901

Page

2

Drainage Pay Roll Probed in Tax Protest Rant

A Springfield immigrant turned attorney joined brother in a law firm now on the Drainage Pay-Roll. The tax broadside lists several local figures by name as Sanitary District and Drainage Board staff, arguing taxes fund salaries of “pets” and calling for scrutiny of wasteful spending.

Springfield Jones & Jones Joseph C. Braden William Legner Ass’t Thomas A. Smyth Frank X. Cloidt William H. Baker Sanitary District Drainage Board Sanitary

Franchises of City Rail Lines Expire 2003

The Chicago street railway system faces expirations of 53 lines by 2003. The list names North Chicago and West Chicago lines with many franchises subject to the 1865 act. details include streets, avenues, and loops across the North, West, and downtown routes with specific termination dates and units like the Wabash Avenue, Clark Street, and Canal Street lines.

Union Traction Company George C. Sikes The Street Railway Commission North Chicago Street Railway Company West Chicago Street Railway Company State Street Lake Clark Streets Division Street Clark Street Washington Street Fullerton Avenue Diversey Boulevard Wells Street Fifth Avenue Randolph Center Street Lincoln Avenue Belmont Avenue Ashland Avenue Belmont Graceland Avenue Robey Street Roscoe Boulevard Western Avenue Clyburn Avenue Clybourn Avenue Sedgwick Street Chicago Avenue Evanston Avenue Diversey Street Wrightwood Avenue Lill Wrightwood Sheffield Seminary Avenues Madison Street Western Hamlin Crawford Avenues Milwaukee Avenue Take Halsted Streets Halsted Street North Avenue Armitage Avenue van Buren Side Clinton Street van Buren Street California Avenue Leavitt Street Kedzie Avenue 40Th Avenue Grand Avenue Milwaukee Western Avenues Lake Street Wabash Avenue Union Park Court Rockwell Street Homan Avenue Randolph Street Union Park Bryan Place Ogden Avenue Polk Street Canal Street Twelfth Street Fifteenth Place Jefferson and Canal Streets Polk 12Th Street Harrison Street Canalport Avenue Jefferson Street 15Th Place Blue Island Avenue Van Buren Street Californian Avenue Iines Chicago City Railway Cotraae Grove Avenue 22D Street Twenty Second Street Cottage Grove Avenue 89Th Street 68Th B1st Street Downtown Loop Washington Archer Avenue State Halsted 38Th Street Thirty-ninth Street Vincennes Avenue 20Th Street Twenty-ninth Street Canal Butler Street Wallace Street 20Th 80Th Street O'Neill 69Th Street 39Th Street

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Alece Jones John S. Runnels Pullman Car Company James Todd John C. Drennan Illinois Central Railroad P. C. Haley William Sprincer Aleck Jones Union Traction Gang Corporations Fucus Avenue Garfield Avenue Racine Avenue Webster Avenue Larrabee Street Chicago Lincoln Racine Lincolnvenues Sheffield Avenue Clark Fronts Halstad Atmaate Clinton Amaglem Bleee O'Neill Street 1Th Place Washtenaw Avenue T1st Twenty-first Street Dearborn Dearborn Street 21St Street Twenty-sixth Street Thirty-first Street Lake Park Avenue Pitney Avenue S1st Street Chicago & Alton Railroad Wentworth Avenue Root Street Forty-third Street Illinoia Forty-seventh Street Illinois Central Ashland Fifty-first Street Grand Boulevard Indiana Avenue Wood Street Fifty-ninth Street Sixty-first Street Madison Avenue Point South Park Avenue Said Point Sixty-third Street Stony Island Avenue Wentworth Central Park Avenue Sixty-ninth Street Seventy-ninth Street South T1st Street T5th Street
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