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city, and some 100000 commuters,
making it the country's biggest
rail center. There is a movement
of some 400 buses daily at the
Greyhound terminals. Here are the
biggest stockyards in the country,
handling cattle, hogs and sheep by
the millions each year, and smell
ing as extensively as the pulp mill
at Plymouth, yet the removal of
these odors would be of grave
concern to the citizens of these
towns. Chicago held a great live
stock exposition three years ago,
when a champion Hereford steer
from Texas sold for $4,000. A
260-lb. Yorkshire barrow hog from
Ohio sold for $481; and a 95-lb.
wether from Kentucky sold for
1923.
Chicago claims to lead the world
in the manufacture of meat prod
ucts, furniture, telephone equip
ment, agricultural implements, dry
goods, millinery, jewelry, foundry
products, and many other things.
A City of Many Parks
Chicago is chock-full of mu-
seums, libraries, parks, etc. The
Chicago Art Institute operates
many things, including a library
or two, a theatre, schools for art,
etc. 1t carries $4,000 volumes on
art alone, and 1000 books on
architecture, beside paintings by
the hundreds of thousands, and is
visited by more than a million
people a year. Nearly a million
books are in the Newberry Lii
brary. The Museum of Science and
Industry is equally as interesting
as the Smithsonian in Washing
ton. The John G. Shedd Aquarium
on South Lake Shore Drive keeps
over 10000 specimens of aquatic
life in it's million gallons each of
fresh and salt water The priceless
Oriental Institute offers a vast and
fascinating display of things rich
and intriguing from the Far East.
The Lincoln Park Zoo has some
5000 animals, birds and reptiles.
The Adler Planetarium was the
first of it's kind in the country,
and provides an exceedingly fas-
cinating pastime for ti.ose who
are interested in the study of the
heavenly bodies. The great Natu-
raj History Museum brings to life
in the imagination, the develop
ment of the world and its life
from the deepest ages.
1t would take a lot of space
to enumerate the greatest things
in Chicago, but amid it's big build
ings one may list the 43 story
Board of Trade building with its
giant statue of Ceres, Goddess of
Grain; the Daily News Building;
the Civic Opera Building, 43
stories high, most complete and
beautiful musical structure in the
world; the worlds largest Mer-
chandise Mart, covering 90 acres
of floor space; the great Furni-
ture Mart, biggest in the country;
the great Tower Building of the
Chicago Tribune; and numerous
others, including building which
houses more insurance offices thar
any other building in the world.
Famous For Memorials
This is a city of memorials
Here the Elks have erected their
great monument to the World
War dead; wonderful memorial
hall embellished with sculpture
and murals by great artists. Here
in this city also is a great monu-
ment to the poet, Eugene Field
Other monuments honor Christie.
pher Columbus, Presidents Grant
Lincoln, and Washington; great
Indians, Alexander Hamilton, Gen.
eral John A Logan, and others.
There are many fountains anG
public parks. The larger parks are
Lincoln Park, with its 1000 acre