THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



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Photograph by International Film Service 



THE GENERAL GRAXT MONUMENT, ILLUMINATED, IN LINCOLN PARK: CHICAGO 



No city on the map of America was more patriotically devoted to the aims and end of 

 America's participation in the world war than Chicago. In Liberty Loan subscriptions, in 

 Red Cross work, in War Fund drives — everywhere the city went over the top at home with 

 the same enthusiasm that sent her sons after the Huns abroad. Already plans are in the 

 making fittingly to commemorate in bronze and marble her heroes' achievements on the 

 battlefield. 



will go there resolved to secure a simpli- the two conventions a day that is Chi- 



fication of her governmental machinery 

 and a concentration of responsibility. 



But the story of the great metropolis 

 of the Middle West is only half told with 

 the recital of its problems and its plans. 

 One might turn to many aspects of the 

 city's activities and find rich fields of 

 interest. A chapter could be written on 



cago's average and the ten thousand dele- 

 gates a week the city entertains. Another 

 might be written on the babel of voices 

 one hears upon its streets, for there are 

 more than thirty distinct nationalities 

 abiding within its confines. Only two 

 Irish cities have more Irish, only one 

 Bohemian city more Bohemians, and only 



