Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1918-10-19
new WARDS

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Democratic County Committees have
reached an agreement to put through
a fifty.ward bill, with one Alderman
from each ward, at the next session of
the Illinois Legislature.
The river wards, apparently, with
sufficient aldermen among themselves
to stop any favorable action upon the
proposed redistricting under the pres.
ent council organization, have forced
the political arrangement perfected.
Progress has been made whereby an
agreed map covering the realignment
of ward boundaries, to take care of the
additional fifteen wards that would be
created, has been prepared and has
been o. KID Ivy the powers that ought
to be able to perform the first neces.
sary step, which is passage Of the bill
at Springfield next winter.
This map, it is known, will be used
as the basis for congressional reappor.
tionment and probably for senatorial
reapportionment, which have been
hanging fire at the state capital ever
since the census of 1910. The tentative
agreement, congressionally and sena.
torially, is that the new districts in
Chicago shall follow the ward lines
created by the agreed map, provided
the fifty.ward scheme reaches frui.
ton.
The salary to be paid the Council
members under the single alderman
system will be factor, undoubtedly,
in further development Of the Joint
Republican.Democratic plan. That 1t
may be fixed at either $4,000 or $4,000
in the bill to be introduced is consid.
cred probable.
Under the agreed map the fifty
wards are erected on the basis of
population, as ascertained by the
school census Of 1917, and accurately
| figured, block by block. No one OF the
wards, as the realignment proposes,
has fewer than $4,000 inhabitants nor
more than $4,000.
BY sections OF the city the add.
tional fifteen wards are thus appor.
toned: North Side, g.; Northwest
Side, 8; West Side, 2; South Side, Q;
Southwest Side, 8.
On the North Side the Twenty.fifth
Ward Is divided at Granville avenue
the new ward running thence north to
the city limits. The Twenty.sixth
would have its south line at Irving
Park boulevard. The south halves OF
the Twenty.frst and the Twenty.sec
ond would be made into n new ward
and the present Twenty.first would lie
north of Chicago avenue and east OF
State street. A new ward would be
made of parts Of the Twenty.third
Twenty.flfth, and Twenty.sixth.
On the South Side, the Fifth would
lose its southwest portion to a new
ward that would be made out of the
north part of the Twenty.ninth. The
Sixth would split and new ward
would be erected around Washington
Park. A new ward would be built
from the south half OF the present
Seventh and the north part of the
Eighth, with Seventy-first street as 0
center.
The present Twenty.seventh on the
Northwest Side would be severed a,
Irving Park boulevard, with new
ward bounded roughly by Irving Park
Belmont, Central avenue, and tn,
river. Another ward would be mad,
from the Fifteenth and Twenty.sey
enth Wards, between Western, Seeley
Fullerton, and Chicago avenues. Still
another new one would be created be
tween North avenue and Madison
street, Ashland avenue and Seeley
street.
Redistricting on the West Side con
templates two new wards in territory
now in the Twelfth and Thirty.fourtf
Wards. In the Town of Lake the
north line OF the Twenty.nlnth is sent
south to Fifty.ffth street A new ward
Is outlined between Sixty.third and
Seventy.flfth streets, from South Pari
avenue to Western avenue. Another
is figured between Forty,third and
Fifty.ninth, and between Wentworth
avenue and State street.
II Is understood that the bulk OF the
county committeeman in each party
and q majority OF the aldermen have
approved the new map, and that pros
pective members OF the next legisla
ture have agreed to go along with It
as long as It has been made an organ
ization proposition with both parties.
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Meeting hours Tor City Council con.
mittees are a. follows:
Monday - Streets and alleys. Z
o'clock: buildinss. $3.50 o'clock.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and police. IL
o'clock; harbors, wharves and bridges
. o'clock; local industries. 2 O'Clock
Wednesday-Special park commits
sion, 1880 o'clock; health, . o'clock:
local transportation, ! o'clock: track
elevation. 3:30 O'Clock.
Thursday-das. oil and electric
light 2 o'clock: license. 3:9e o'clock |;
water. $3.50 o'clock.
Friday-Compensatso II O'Clock;
judiciary, . o clock; finance. : o'clock;
bathing beaches. $3.50 O'Clock.
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Charles Molitor, a recognized leader
in the machinery trade, is one of Chi
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