Author: Chicago Historical Society

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-08

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780364127223

Excerpt from Charter, Constitution, by-Laws, Membership List, Sixtieth Anniversary Year Book: Annual Report for the Year Ending October 31, 1916 Indian, Spaniard, Frenchman, Englishman, American all these have ruled over the territory that is now Chicago. For sixty years past the Chicago Historical Society has by research and collection, uncovered and preserved the record Of those early days and the periods that followed them. Our own times, too, receive daily from its trained workers the same analysis and preservation. The relics, the paintings, the books and pamphlets of the Society preserve for Chicago its historic background. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.