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World: North America: Mid-western USA: Chicago

Second largest city in the United States. Pop. 1,698,575 [1900]. [JT]

VALL: McMurdo had worked in a planing mill in Chicago.

Cecil Barker: "I have heard him talk of Chicago. He knew that city well and had worked there."

DANC: Wilson Hargreave, of the New York Police Bureau, informed Holmes that Abe Slaney was "the most dangerous crook in Chicago."

chicago panoramic map 1874
The City of Chicago, showing the burnt district, 1874.
Notes: Perspective map not drawn to scale; Bird's-eye-view; Published in Harpers Weekly, Aug. 1, 1874.
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Last Modified: Jan. 18, 1999
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