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l l Michigan at Iackson CBeiore the Firel Seoenlq eau WVHiCHHCAGQ AND THE HARVARD SCHOCL FOR BUYS 1865-l94O T was l8657 the Civil War was over. The city of Chicago, thirty years earlier a straggling village on the banks of a sluggish stream, now found itself an important center, the hub of the rapidly developing West. Ugly and untidy, but full of vitality and energy, it was the place of which Dickens Wrote: This is the first American city l have encountered. Having seen it once, I urgently desire never to see it again. lt is inhabited by savages. lts amazing growth, for already it had a population of one hundred seventy- nine thousand inhabitants, attracted young men from the East seeking wider opportunities. A large group, including young Marshall Field, came together from Vermont. The war had stimulated Chicago's industries, and it was too early to feel the inevitable backwash of war,-financial depression. The sprawling city of small frame houses spread far out to the West Side, then one of the fashionable sections, and stretched several miles north and south. lts imposing center of five and six story brick buildings clustered about what is now the Loop. Tree-lined Michigan Avenue, a wide and pleasant city PAGE 13
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