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Excerpt from Rand, McNally Co; 'S; Pocket Guide to Chicago: With Maps and Index to Streets Chicago, "The Phoenix City of the West," "The Garden City," "The Windy City" - for all these titles are hers - is situated on the southwest shore of Lake Michigan, in latitude 41, 53', 6.2" N., and longitude 87, 38', 1.2" W. - being 854 miles distant from Baltimore, Md., the nearest point on the Atlantic Coast line, 911 miles from New York, and 2,417 miles from the Pacific Ocean. The City of Chicago, incorporated March 4, 1837, comprised "the district of country in the County of Cook, etc., known as the east 1/2 of the southwest 1/4 of section 33, township 40 north, range 14 east, also the east 1/4 of sections 6, 7, 18, and 19, all of fractional section 3, and of sections 4, 5, 8, 9 and fractional section 10 (except the southwest fractional 1/4 thereof, occupied as a military post, until the same shall become private property), fractional section 15, sections 16, 17, 20, 21, and fractional section 22, township 39 north, range 14 east." Since then there have been twelve extensions to the city limits. The city of to-day has a lake frontage of about twenty miles, inclusive of the parks at either extremity of the city; this, with a river frontage of forty-one miles affording fine harbors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works
Chicago in Maps is a luxuriously illustrated cartographic history of Chicago, known for centuries as the gateway city to the West. The powerful and evocative documents reproduced here offer an unprecedented avenue to the city's past-a fascinating collective portrait of the evolution of one of America's great towns. Among the seventy-four maps featured, many are seminal exemplars of this timeless art form: the "Kinzie Map," which accompanied the Narrative of the Massacre of 1812; the Rand McNally "View of the World's Columbian Exposition" of 1893; Daniel Burnham's influential "Chicago Plan" of 1909, which epitomized the ambitions of the City Beautiful Movement; W. T. Stead's "Map of Sin"; and Bruce-Roberts' 1931 "Gangland Map"-a tongue-in-cheek "expos�" of a city populated by such powerful underworld figures as Al Capone, "Baby Face" Nelson, "Machine Gun" Kelly, and others, indicating various gang territories and warehouses. Filled with fascinating historical anecdotes and detailed scholarship, Chicago in Maps is a work that will be highly prized by map lovers and history buffs alike. It is a sumptuous feast of glorious full-color reproductions of maps by the some of the world's most extraordinary cartographers.
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