Loyola University Chicago - Loyolan Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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The multiple railroad lines converging upon Chicago make it possible for the city's in- dustries and businesses to ship their products to every corner of the land. The worlds busiest airport is lvlidway, through which pass nine million passengers n ycnr. 14 -Y AJ.---.. W-, ,N..i.......'..Y-..-. ..,........-...... ....c-,--,..- , -....-......---- rf ---ZLL - -...xi , f , ,.. , -4 , , , 1:0611 i 1 :sul 1

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The Chicago waterways are the arteries that bring the lifeblood of or to thc stccl mills Chicago's largest industrial complex. which is just one of 75 such districts throughout the city. In addition to steam, diesel, and electrically oper- ated railways, Chicago has one million automabiles, 70 miles of double track elevated railways, and nine miles of subways. Chicago is served by twenty railroads which operate nearly one-half of the nation's total railroad mileage. Passenger train arrivals and departures average 1,770 per day. The Chicago Terminal district contains al- most S,000 miles of railroad tracks, Chicago's Midway airport, the world's busiest, ac- commodates 900 Hights a day. O'Hare International Field, with an area of 10 square miles, is the words largest airport. Air passengers handled here annually account for one-fourth of the nations total air travel, and one-sixth of the world's. Chicago is served by 14 malor air lines, 12 of which offer direct service abroad. Chicago has four great daily newspapers, Shi foreign language newspapers, many neighborhood journals, and one daily newspaper devoted exclusively to business news. The city supports 1,785,000 telephones, 50 radio broadcasting stations, 5 television stations, and two million television sets.

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Some ll,250 Chicago wholesalers do about 22 billion dollars' worth of business a year. Leading lines of wholesale trade ranked according to dollar sales are groceries, farm products, automotive equipment, ma- chinery, paper, electrical goods, drugs, lumber, dry goods, and hardware. There are 75 separate shopping centers within the city limits, the best known of them being State Street with its world-famous department stores. Chicago's retail trade, exclusive of its mail order trade, amounts to 5.7 billion dollars a year. The city's mail order houses distribute 40 million catalogs annually, and account for 93 percent of the nation's total mail order business. Chicago possesses a Mayor-City Council form of government. The City Council is composed of 50 aldermen representing as many city wards. The execu- tive branch oi the city government includes the mayor, city clerk, treasurer, and the heads of the various city departments. These men administer and enforce the laws enacted by the legislative branch, the City Count il. The judicial branch consists of the chief justice of the Municipal Court, 56 associate justices, and their clerks and bailifls, The cost of running the city of Chicago is slightly oxer 700 million dollars per year. According to the National Research Council, Chicago, with its more than 1,200 industrial research laboratories, is the hrst city in the nation in industrial research. Scientists at the University of Chicago pro- duced the first atomic chain reaction. The first reactor for providing electric power from atomic energy was also made here. Argonne National Laboratory, located in a Chicago suburb, is the nations leading center of research in the industrial uses of atomic energy. Millions of newspapers a year are printed and distributed in Chicago, thus making Chi- cagoans among the most well-informed in the world. llilxg