Drainage Pay Roll Critique Targets Local Tax Officials
A Springfield immigrant turned lawyer joins Jones & Jones and now sits on the Drainage and Sanitary District Pay Rolls. The text warns taxpayers that drainage taxes fund numerous pets of the board, including several lawyers, a deputy sheriff, and brewery staff, with families suffering alongside inflated tax bills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Jones & Jones
Ass’t
Sanitary District
Drainage Board
Sanitary
Franchises and Streets of Union Traction Expires 1908
A lengthy notice lists expiring streetcar franchises in Chicago tied to Union Traction Company. It details lines on the North West and West sides, with many routes and sections subject to the 1865 act, and notes dates of expiration for Wabash, Indiana, Canal, Clark, and other lines, including downtown loop and cross-town segments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Traction Company
George C. Sikes
The
Street Railway Commission
North Ohio Street Railway Company
West Chicago Street Railway Company
Clark Street
Divisionark
Fullerton Avenue
Diversey Boulevard
Eer
Fifth Avenue
Belmont Avenue
Roscoe Boulevard
Rotey Street
Western Avenue
Division Street
Wells Street
Clybourn Avenue
Sedgwick Street
Chicago Avenue
Washington
O Sedgwick Street
Lincoln Avenue
Gardell Avenue
Racine Avenue
Webster Avenue
Center Street
Larrabee Street
Chicago
Lincoln Avenues
Racine
Sheffield Avenue
Larrabes Street
D Street
State
Clark Streets
Graceland Avenue
Evanston Avenue
Ashland Avenue
Diversey Street
Werwood Avenue
Lill
Wrightwood Avenues
Sheffield
Seminary Avenues
Madison Street
State Street
Western
Hamlin
Crawford
Avenues
Fifth Avenue Sde
Milwaukee Avenue
Lake and
Halsted Streets
Halsted Street
North Avenue
California Avenue
Leavitt Street
Kedzie Avenue
4Th Avenue
Avenue
Milwaukee
Lake Street
Wabash Avenue
Union Park Court
Western Fivenue
Rockwell Street
Homan Avenue
Randolph Street
Union Park
Bryan Place
Take Street
Ogden Avenue
Both Avenue
van Buren Street
Polk Street
Canal Street
Twelfth Street
Fifteenth Place
Jefferson and
Qapal Streets
Randolph
Polk Streets
12Th Street
Clinton Street
Harrison Street
Canalport Avenue
Jefferson Street
15Th Place
Blue Island Avenue
O'Neill Street
Grand Avenue
van Buen Street
Lifornia Avenue
Armitage Avenue
S1st
Indiana Avenue
Eighteenth Street
18Th Street
Cottage Grove Avenue
U3d
Bist Street
Downtown Loop
Polk
22D Street
Archer Avenue
Halsted
88Th Street
Thirty-ninth Street
Vincennes Avenue
20Th Street
Twenty-ninth Street
Canal
Butler Street
Wallace Street
29Th
39Th Street
O'Neill
80Th Street
Thirty-ninth
69Th Street
Twenty-first Street
Dearborn
Dearborn Street
20Th
21St Street
Twenty-sixth Street
Thirty-first Street
Lake Park Avenue
Pitney Avenue
81St Street
Chicago & Alton Railroad
Ullman Street
31St Street
30Th Street
Thirty-fifth Street
Rhodes Avenue
83Th
89Th Street
Wentworth Avenue
Root Street
Forty-third Street
Illinois Central Tracks
Also Mentioned on This Page
Aleck Jones
Joseph C. Braden
William Lecgner
Thomas A. Smyth
Frank X. Cloidt
William H. Baker
John S. Runnels
Pullman Car Company
James Todd
Alece Jones
John CG. Drennan
Illinois Central Railroad
P. C. Haley
William Springer
Union Traction Gang
Clinton and
With Place
Washtenaw Avenue
Chicago City Railways Company
Twenty Second Street
189Th Street
71St Street
Forty-seventh Street
Ilinois Central
Ashland
Fifty-first Street
Seventy-ninth Street
75Th Street