Loyola University Chicago - Loyolan Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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accomplished without great citizens as well as great op- portunities. The city has always heen fortunate in the industry of its people. To them and to their leaders is due a large measure of the credit for the city's re- markable record of progress. Nearly four million people live within Cliicagois 2lS square miles. The city has 2, 100 churches, syna- gogues, and other places of worship. The first Sunday School was hegun in 1832, when the community had less than 100 inhahitants. Both St. Marys Catholic Church and the First Presbyterian Church were organ- ized in 1835. The first synagogue was erected in IS 19. The Chicago area includes 20 colleges and universi- ties, and over 200 technical schools. The parochial school system operates ,Vo elementary and S5 high schools whose attendance approximates 250,000. The puhlic school system, with its 315 elementary schools, 12 high schools, seven vocational schools, one junior college, and a teachers college, has a yearly enrollment of 500,000 Chic-ago's first school, opened in INN, was located ahoxe a halcery shop, A famous cultural center, Chicago hoasts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, a musical organization ol inter- national reputation, the phenomenal lyric Opera, which in five years has captured world acclaim for the hril- liance of its productions, and a scihsidy from the Italian government in recognition of its success, the Art Institute, one of the largest of its lcindg numerous The soybean pit is a vital center of activity in Chicagos financial world.

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One of the highlights of the summer sporting world is the innual All-Star game held in Soldier Field. theatres, and a complex of museums and libraries de- voted to every department of human knowledge. Chicago's contribution to the financing of the nationls business is substantial. Six of Americas largest com- mercial banks are located here. The Midwest Stock Exchange, a market place for the purchase and sale of stocks and bonds, is the largest outside of New York. Chicago has 168 public parks and over 200 miles of boulevards. Brookfield and Lincoln Park Zoos are visited by nearly three million people annually. The 14,500 factories in the Chicago area produce 21 billion dollars worth of goods a year, furnishing employment for over one million industrial workers. Chicago's largest industry is iron and steel. Next in importance are machinery, metal-working, food prod- ucts, printing and publishing, transportation equipment, chemicals, furniture, and ceramic products. Every mode of passenger transportation is required to help Chicagoans get about their city, a need which is better appreciated when it is understood that 950,000 Chicagoans a day come to the central business district, A popular recreational area of the city is the zoo, which many Chicago animals affection- ately call home. T ---in