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Illinois Parades and Hard Times Mark March 1878
A Springfield State Register summary, centering on St Patrick's Day observances in 1878 across Illinois cities, notes religious services before parades in Chicago Peoria Springfield and Rock Island Moline Davenport. It cites 4000 marchers in Chicago parade with 50 Horse Shoers Benevolent Association members and Father Matthew Total Abstinence Society presence. It also reports ongoing bank failures in Springfield Chicago Bloomington Jacksonville and Quincy and describes a bleak scene of urban debt, a mild winter, better country roads by March 18, and the first 200 prisoners arriving at Chester penitentiary on March 25 after a special train from Joliet.
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Springfield
Illinois
Illinois State Historical Library
State Penitentiary
Chester
Chicago
Peoria
Rock Island
Moline
Davenport
Iowa
Chicago Inter-Ocean
Horse Shoers Benevolent Association
Father Matthew Total Abstinence Society
Galesburg
St. Patrick's Day
Second Regiment
Illinois Militia
Irish Literary Association
Sherman House
Grand Pacific Hotel
Shelby M. Cullom
Bloomington
Jacksonville
Quincy
LaHarpe
Hancock Co
Muncie
Vermilion Co
Dorsey Station
Madison Co
Rock Island Argus
Market Square
Mississippi River
Lake Michigan
State Register
Joliet