The evening world., 1893-07-24
ILLINOIS HALF / CENTURY AGO.
When Kaskaskia, with l60 houses,
Was the Largest Town.
Wonderful Dcvclor ment STAGE steam
Cars Were Introduced.

As We now look from some lofty pidc"
In Chicugo over the level union &C lakes
ana lunds, we can almost see Father
Marquette breathing his last on Lake
Michigan. about the time phI'HdolDhla
was settled. writes George Aired Town
send IN an exchange.
His CasoCiatc La Sale, died 20 years
ago, and 20o years after Columbus ar
rived In Spain to prosecute the scheme
Of his discovery. tu sale and Mar
quette stand half between the present
and Columbus. an1 they prrcCdc the
American Revolution au1 cpnHtitution
by only 100 years. When thn canal fvon,
Chicago {, tie mississippi was sur
veyel, one of the surveyors was brought
up from st. Louis, cuuntryman OF i.H
sale and Marquette, to do the survey
ing namely Rene Paul.
The Illinois Central Railrcpd, which
made Chicago and the State, was II por-
ton. 20 to speak. uf In" CoMprumis,
iucaaurcs which wcrr tl remand fu.i
tive slaves to the South. The Summer
will be long aud tho people coming to
Illinois will n"ed the assistance ci na.
urcs and suggestions IKE th"e".
Almost exactly south Ct tni ago, On
tho Ohio River, twclvt nile heior III,
mouth of the Wlbe sh formerly rtnud
the chicago of that day, ,hawnroto town
The hiHtlng part of Illinois" M the nrsi
quarter of our century, VA "a tt'i
blurl, pocket between the onto and W
aiss.ppi, y acre the Tsnnc,&cc aud cum
n,rland rivers iipw northNara and join
the Ohio.
tahc w IN OLD atlas Of l!lin"i7 rpb
nineteen counties ut lllinuis were south
OF the Illinois River. NanIFtip was tho
capital. and Eeskaskia. which has part.
ly fallen into the Mis'tssipni River wa.
Most oi the counties 81 lliirLia, "or,
named for the Iencrsunian pohli.a
bosses. In l@ no county carried tn
name Of N Fcic.uis,. except mat ol
Gallatin. jefferson. Crawford, Rnndnlpn
and jackson. But a proviGchi h'nt hi'
reached over from 'pnlCicfatpn times
and given the ,hirty-siXth part q ever
township for the support of pnb.''
fChcols.
II we look impahcn,ly al the growti
or things out West. let us r"mcmhei
! that tho year after the ste. .Dhca, wa
| launched hy Fulton On the Hudsnn tlr
or. Illinois became y Tcrrit JrN, ana tht
year the locomotive engine was ~
vented in ENGLAND. Chicago became .
| town or hamlet.
! Gen. LOGAN was horn down in III" bot;
! tom Of the state, in jackson County
and in Buncomte township; Ike cx
1
the clerk Of his county Court
| Froil such email bcginniufs liIln1i
| has rapidly become Il hnnogencoG
| state ny the census of 1880, 2.5Oo,0)o o
| It's people were native Americans, an
! Of thcsc 10000 were born in llinoi'
| 12l0O were born IN Ne" York state
| 1870 in Ohio. 5000 IN pcpns vlvdnt
| and 1900 in Indiana. E'lrLy thouaan
| had been born in Missouri. &GO IN Ten
nessc,. and 400, in Kentucky. Pe"p'
are still living who remember Wnen &c
lena was a more i,uportant town thai
| Chicago.
From 1913, when Shawneatown wa
laid out. close by oli Ninconnrs, tina
place was the mast powerful town Il
the State for IL quarter oi Il century
| Kaekaskia which hUn hardly 50 poop
now. once had 700.
The year William Of Orange took pos
session of England and drove out Kin
JarHra, thcr, was a French fort at Oh
Cag0. The stelmboat came down IN
Ohio River for the first time in 1917, onl
nine years before John Logan was bpIl
| IN 1872 Illinois cast 2,9A majority /
favor Of the Introduction az sirVcry. Il
1871, 1T the tlucE Hswk war. two Amer
lean Presidents were win tho lll!n1i
troops, Gen TGvlor and Lii coin, an
Scott, n Preaidcntlal candidate wa: ais
IN tina. war.