Chicago the History of Its Reputation, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Chicago the History of Its Reputation, Vol. 1 Long before the Limited slows down for its glide into the terminal yards, a traveler knows that Chicago lies before him. From whichever direction he comes, he crosses level country which, though dotted with towns, still has the horizon, the tints, and something of the grand freedom, of the Mid-Western steppes. Soon the windy open spaces fall behind. Into the picture move the shapes of industrial plants, a legion of monsters that smoke and hiss on the city's borders. Their chimneys are like clusters of reeds. Ghostly amid the vapor, or sharp against the sky, their contorted limbs, their mystic collections of turrets, derricks, raised trackage, have majesty and pathos as well. In this radius, too, arc the marching towers of power lines, an occasional gas tank, like an absurdly large cheese, the low. windowed buildings of many a factory, and then, touching elbows and patterned a good deal alike, villages, suburbs, in which the city's terra cotta and old-time frame construction are curiously mingled. The city thickens. Innumerable streets wheel by, the eye can follow their long, monotonous length for miles. Every other one seems to have a street car-line. The train thunders over a succession of viaducts. 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.