, 1881-03-13
SUMMARY FOR THE WEEK.

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! Tie following is the total amount of cit,
and suburban transfers within q radius O
! seven miles of the Courthouse filed for rec
! ord duriil5 the week ending Saturday, March
| y: City-Sales, 40; consideration, SGsl, ,U16
North ot city linits-Sales. 7; consideration
sis{eration, $l7s,74 West Of city limits-Saies
| Q; consideration, SS,4.25 Total sales, 0l tota
! consideration, $50, l5S.
SCHOOL SITES.
The Board of Education has decided to ad-
ver1ise for q school site i'll tie vicinity o1
Monroe and Leavltt n, streets ana warren and j.
! purchase Lots 9. 10, II, and Il Of Block Ii, in
Walsh Il NcMullin's Subdivision of the S. Z.
Il OF Sec. 20, 80, II, on West Twentieth
street. east OF and separate trum the Walsh
Of $9,350, providing the City Council viii Va
! cate the alley; and Lot 80. Block 10, Of
Briulu's Addition to Chicago, on the corner
Of johnson and Wright streets, and adjoill-
ing the site recently purchased on johnson
street, 24X99 feet, for the sum Of 81 III.
IN THE SALES OF THE WEEK
were 25xSS on Stewart avenue, north of
Meagher street, $4,000; 627x:2.64 OH Sixty-sec-
ond street, southeast corner Of Market,
$1,000; 4014NlT1a on Prairie avenue, north
of efo Twentieth. s3l,5oo; undiyided half Of 5ox
800 feet proysda d. SnorV pn Mss ha6e @ Strset
OIL Thirty-seventh street, northeast corner of
Stanton avenue, slS,370; s0xl00 on West Lake
street, southeast corner Of Leavitt, $6,4a50:
24x13o Oh South Park avenue. 4orth Of ThiF-
Erays tyssssnth on s'rest; Gapn sS; ne, in n
' Was9a'ston u" sfrset, sfa sioe; S % o6la acres IS
OIL Western avenue boulevard, northwest
corner of Fiftieth street. $1,000; 40x1a0, ilI~
proved, on Drexel boulevard, ,n0rth Of Brook
Of Goethe street s5,Gs5; 326xl3o on Harmon
court, east of Wabash, $1,000; HGgSSx15o on
North State, northeastcorner Of Scott, So, 600; s;
triangle Of four acres at southeast corner Of
Eiston avenue and Webster, 5000; 50xl25on
Gresn StTeet north Of West ZHt congress $500
Of 1,oomis, 5000, 1oux2oQ on afichi-
street, s11,ooo; ,u aox1o1, Improved,
On Ada, north Of West Washington, $500;
street, with = feet to alley in rear Of the
above, 51.,200; 15Jx15SH on Hammond
street, northeast corner Of Eugene, S10,2j0;
No. ITS North Curtis, Sc, COO; 2+SSS on Stew
art avenue, northwest corner Of Meagher.
corner Of West Fifteenth street, 5000; 30x
119 OH Wabash avenue, south of Twenty
first street, $500; 49>i5S >i5Sxl26 on Wabash ave-
nue., southwest corner Of Thilty~eiglth
stree, with 25xl3 adjoining on Thirty eighth,
west corner OF Illinois, improved. ,050; Is
x14, improved, on Granger street, east Of
Sedgwick, S5,100.
Property ut
SOUTH EVANSTON,
which is one of the pleasanttst of Chicago's
season, several sales of lots at goou prices
having recently been male. Gen. Julius
White sold last week ten lots at 81 600 each,
and is now building four houses, with others
to follow. These houses are so1don monthly
payments at a low rate Of interest.
1tt
There is an unexampled demand for busi-
ness lnu office accommodations in this city.
About tlalf the offices III the Grannis Build
ing Oh Dearborn street, not yet finished.
have been rented. III tho new Borden Block,
OIL the northwest corner of Dearborn and
Ran Ra.1dolp' t which i will not , be ready for
offices are unrentetl. In the Portland
Block, now being enlarged, all the sixty-nine
Offices are taken. The seventy-lline offices of
the Reaper Block, the ninety offices OF the
uonore Block, and those OF the Bryan Block
are all rented at advances ranging from 10 to
a25 per cent.
Associated Press dispatch from Chicago
to New u ork gives III a few words q vivid
and truthful statement of the rise in rents iii
this city: ~ Tenants find themselves in the
dilena Of either having III pay a very largely
Increased rent or moving to 4 less desirable
neighbbrhood. Some tenants, in refusing to
renew leases at what were considered extOr-
tionate rents, have found themselves unable
to lind new quarters; r. IL Iils CONDITION OF affairs
tha paucity Of building ooeratlons during the
past year, for very many large and coIumO-
dious buildings have t:een erected, but from
the rush toward the city of new business
part Of the city Is ALSO true Of rents for resi-
dences. and the lst of ii ay will witness such
q scramble for houses aswas never seen here
before. 1t now looks rs it many people