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west from Pittsburgh because of the great development of the 

 West; therefore the center of the manufacturing and the dis- 

 tributing of steel should be somewhere in the Middle West. 

 Chicago had already established its claim as such, but real estate 

 values and crowded conditions there were points to be con- 

 sidered. The tract of land at the head of Lake Michigan in 

 Indiana offered advantages for the production and distribution 

 of steel as good, and in some ways better, than Chicago. It was 



midway between the ore beds of the North and the coal beds of 

 the South; it was in the path of the great east and west railroads 

 already built into Chicago; it was easily accessible to ore boats 

 from the lakes; and in addition to these facts there was an 

 almost unlimited area of cheap unimproved land offering plenty 

 of room to grow. The nearness of Chicago offered the advantages 

 of its labor market, the housing facilities of its southern suburbs, 

 and easy access to the president of the subdivision whose offices 

 were in Chicago. It is also said that the laws of the state of 



5"Satellite Cities", Graham Romeyn Taylor, Survey, Oct. 5, 1912. By permission 

 of the Survey Associates, Inc. 



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