Lake Front Dump and Tax Dodgers in Chicago
A sprawling editorial attacks Marshall Field as a tax dodger and praises a Lake Front dump funded by clay excavated for new buildings, including plans for a Field Museum monument. It details political candidates across Illinois districts, critiques Lorimer and other congressmen, and cites the Citizens' Association on county reforms and Linn settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall Field
Shakespeare
Field
Lake Front
Lake Ward
State Street
Michigan Avenue
John G. Sheddon
City Beautiful
Chicago
Chicago League grows in strength and tax law warnings
The Chicago League shows growing strength with well attended weekly meetings. It will address stockyard tax dodgers and health law violators soon, urging taxpayers to pay on all they are worth and noting trusts pay only nominal amounts.
Assessors and reviewers spar with Armoura and Swifts
The piece notes tensions between assessors and the Armoura and the Swifts, implying a lean toward taxing the wealthiest while downplaying the value of friendship with the lower classes. It hints that critics resent the wealthy and use that friction to justify lighter treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armoura
Swifts
Millonaires
Tax Reform Meeting Draws National Attention in Columbus
At the National Tax Reform convention in Columbus Ohio Governor Guild of Massachusetts a delegate to anti tax dodgers warned the president has touched upon a great evil by proposing a national inheritance tax and a national graduated income tax He argued state or city taxes press hardest on taxpayers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armour
Columbus
Ohio
Governor Guild
Massachusetts
Tuberculosis Congress Planned in Washington Next Fall
A tuberculosis congress will assemble in Washington next fall to discuss the disease as one-tenth of the U S population dies from it. The upcoming meeting aims to focus on research prevention and public health measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Saratoga Hotel Plans Funded for Six Story Addition
A financing package was secured to permit the Saratoga Hotel to construct a six story addition over the alley between Madison and Monroe streets, spanning from Dearborn to State streets. The deal joins city approvals with private investors to extend the historic hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saratoga Hotel
Madison
Monroe Streets
Dearborn
State Streets
Candidates for Assessor Next Year Stir Public Debate
Citizens are urged to note the men seeking the assessor post next year. The text names groups such as The Packers The State Street Department Stores and The Goodrich Line as interested parties. Vexed voices question whether nominees will rob taxpayers via high levies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Packers
State Street
Goodrich
Lorimer Defeated as Sixth District Rejects Charter
Voters in the Sixth District overruled the tax-raising prohibition charter championed by Billy Lorimer and moved to remove him from political life, marking a shift away from his long-standing influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McDermott
Adolf J. Sabath
Congress
Lorimer
Pal
Sherman
Lorimer-Cooke
United Societies
Springfield
Billy Lorimer
Mr. Lorimer
Armour Tax Battle Sparks Broad Outcry in Chicago
Multimillionaire J Ogden Armour is taxed on only 200000 of his personal property amid outrage from small real estate owners who face higher rates. The Chicago Teachers Federation led by Mina Haley plans to seek a restraining order and a rehearing in federal court to challenge discrimination against properties valued at full and half values. Armour’s tunnel plans for a city subway and steam power are pressed as a potential boon to his empire, with a new franchise expected to fund repairs and expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mer
Nicholas R. Fine
Lorimer
Philip Knopf
Charles McGavin
Ilinois
Fuller
Rockford
Frank O. Lowden
James McKinney
Aledo
Washington
John Hugh
Warren County
McKinney
Prince
Galesburg
Chiperfield
Fulton County
Adams County
Peoria
Joseph W. Groff
John A. Sterling
Bloomington
Cannon
India
William B. McKinley
Congress
Henry T. Rainey
W. BE. William
Pike County
Charles A. Gridley
Virginia
Ren F. Caldwell
Springfield
Armour
Teachers’ Federation
Mina Margaret Haley
Peter
Grose Cup
United States
Ynaamuch
Grosscup
Federation
Chicago
Union Traction Company
Chicago City Railway Company
The
Edison Company
Miss Haley
United States Court of the Federation
Supreme Court
Grosmup
Mins Haley
Kenyon
South Omaha
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Illinois
Martin B. Madden
James HR. Mann
W. W. Wilson
M. D. Foster
Olney
Jim O'Leary
Swift
Citizens’ Association
Eugene E. Prussing
Shelby M. Singleton
John A. Linn
Cook County
Brundage
Linn
John A. Cooke
Laula F. Swift
London
J. Ogden Armour
St. James
Reef Trust
Postal Department
Armour’s
Board of Assessors
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