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Grant to Jackson Park, and an Outer Island Park which will make lagoons along the 

 front of the lake. The work on the South Shore Lake Front is not in the hands of the 

 commission but of a Board of South Park Commissioners, which in July 1911 obtained 

 riparian rights from the Illinois Central Railroad. East of the right of way of this rail- 

 road, facing the north on Grant Park, the Field Columbian Museum is to be built. 

 The contract was let in 1912. A new station of the Illinois Central is to be built, west 

 of its tracks and facing north on Twelfth street. A third of the immediate plans of the 

 commission is in regard to the Michigan Avenue connecting link, a two level street to 

 join the South and North Parkway. Plan 3 calling for this was adopted by the Com- 

 mission on July 6, 1910. A Civic Beauty commission was appointed in September 1911. 

 A city harbour and subway commission was created by the city council on December 4, 

 1911; and on December n, 1912, the city council committee on local transportation 

 tentatively adopted a'scheme for presentation to the council and (if approved) to the voters 

 in April 1913. In 1912 a Bureau of Information and Publicity was established in 

 Chicago, absorbing the Bureau of Statistics. The Chicago drainage canal is proving 

 inadequate for the growing needs of the city, and in 1911 a sewage purification plant was 

 planned by the engineer of the Sanitary District. Land was bought for this in 1912 

 and the plant was expected to be built in 1913. Freight terminal improvements to cost 

 $200,000,000 were planned in September 1912, including the purchase of the Chicago 

 Union Transfer Company and the erection of a freight and passenger terminal between 

 Polk, Sixteenth, Park and State streets. In November 1912 Cook county voted 

 $3^250,000 for improvements; $1,750,000 to widen Twelfth Street; $1,000,000 for alms- 

 houses and a pauper cemetery; and $500,000 for a new detention hospital. 



Bibliography. C. O. Gardner "The Working of the State-wide Referendum in Illinois, 

 in American Political Science Review (August 1911); L. D. Upson, .Municipal Revenues in 

 Illinois (University of Illinois Studies in the Social Sciences); R. M. Haig, History of Taxation 

 in Illinois (University of Illinois Studies, etc.); Charles B. Cory, The Mammals of Illinois 

 and Wisconsin (Chicago, 1912); S. M. Cullom, Fifty Years of Public Service (Chicago, 1911); 

 and Laws (2 vols., Springfield, 1911-12) and reports of state departments. 



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Population (1910) 2,700,876, 7.3% more than in 1900; the actual increase and the 

 percentage were lower than for any decade since 1820-30. In 56 (out of 92) counties 

 the population decreased; the greatest relative increase was 118.7% m Lake county. 

 Density of population 74.9 per sq. m. Of the total 91.9% were native whites (about 

 one-seventh of foreign parentage), 5.9% foreign-born whites, and 2.2% negroes. The 

 population in the 88 incorporated places, of 2,500 or more, constituted 42.4% of the 

 total; in 1900, in 80 such places there was only 34.3 %. The semi-urban population was 

 one-ninth of the total, and the rural was 46.6%, nearly one-fifth less, relatively, than in 

 1900. Of the 88 municipalities, with a population above 2,500, 37 had less than 5,000 

 and 26 between 5,000 and 10,000. The 25 having 10,000 or more were: Indianapolis, 

 233,650; Evansville, 69,647; Fort Wayne, 63,933; Terre Haute, 58,157; South Bend, 

 53,684; Muncie, 24,005; Anderson, 22,476; Richmond, 22,324; Hammond, 20,925; New 

 Albany, 20,629; Lafayette, 20,081; Marion, 19,359; Elkhart, 19,282; East Chicago 

 19,098; Logansport, 19,050; Michigan City, 19,027; Kokomo, 17,010; [Gary, 16,802; 

 Vincennes, 14,895; Mishawaka, 11,886; Elwood, 11,028; Peru, 10,910; Laporte, 10,525; 

 Jeffersonville, 10,412; and Huntington, 10,272. 



Agriculture. The acreage in farms decreased from 21,619,623 to 21,299,823 between 

 1900 and 1910, but the improved land increased from 16,680,358 to 16,931,252 acres; the 

 average farm acreage increased from 97.4 to 98.8 and the value of farm property from $978-, 

 616,471 to $1,809,135,238 ($1,328,196,545 land; 266,079,051 buildings; $40,999,541 imple- 

 ments; $173,860,101 domestic animals). Of the land area 92.3% was in farms. The 

 average value of farm land per acre was $62.36. Farms are operated largely by owners 

 (148,501 by owners, 2,297 by managers and 64,687 by tenants). In 1912 (preliminary es- 

 timates) the principal crops were: Indian corn, 199,364,000 bu. (4,947,000 A.); wheat, 

 10,080,000 bu. (1,260,000 A.); oats, 79,799,000 bu. (1,990,000 A.); barley, 266,000 bu. 



1 See E. B. xiv, 421 et seq. 



