The "Ghetto" District on South Canal, Jefferson, and Maxwell Sts.; Fish
Market on Jefferson St. from 12th St. to Maxwell.
Hull House, 800 South Halsted St. This famous settlement house was
established in 1899 by Miss Jane Addams; who became head resident, and
Miss Ellen Gates Starr. It includes a gymnasium, a cr[^e]che and a diet
kitchen, and supports classes, lectures and concerts.
Haymarket Square, Randolph and Des Plaines Sts.; scene of the anarchist
riots.
Sears, Roebuck & Co., a great mail order house which does a business of
over $250,000,000 a year retail. Guides are provided to show visitors
around the establishment, which is easily reached on the elevated
railway.
Western Electric Co., 22nd St. and Forty-eighth Ave. This company
supplies the chief part of the equipment of the Bell telephone companies
of the U.S. and has about 17,000 employees.
McCormick Harvester Works of the International Harvester Co. This is one
of the 23 plants of the greatest manufacturers of agricultural machinery
in the world.
Chicago's position at the head of the most southwestern of the Great
Lakes was the primary factor in determining its remarkable growth and
prosperity. But with the decline of water transportation the city has
not suffered, for it stands at one of the natural cross roads of trade
and travel. Today it is the chief railroad centre not only in the U.S.
but in the world. Not counting subsidiary divisions there are 27
railroads entering Chicago, which is the western terminus of the great
New York Central System.
Chicago is thus the focus of the activities of half a continent. It is
the financial centre of the west and the metropolis of the richest
agricultural section in the country. These circumstances have
contributed to make it the greatest grain and live stock market in the
world. But its accessibility to the raw materials of industrial
development has also made it a great manufacturing city. Chicago has
more than 10,000 factories and the output of its manufacturing zone is
probably more than $3,000,000,000 annually. The principal industries and
manufactures are meat packing, foundry and machine shop products,
clothing, cars and railway construction, agricultural implements,
furniture, and (formerly) malt liquors.