Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Chicago and the Great Conflagration
The banks of this river and its branches have furnished the dockage of Chicago, and, at the time of the great catastrophe, all the available space was so fully occupied that large systems of additional docks were being constructed 'along the lake-shore, outside what was usually known as the harbor.
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