Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1910 — PROHIBIT HUNTING IN CITY [ARTICLE]

PROHIBIT HUNTING IN CITY

Mayor Proposes Amendment to Old Ordinance Aiming at Practise of Chicago Sportsmen. Chicago.— Though Chicago has a population of more than two millions, hunting in the city limits has become so prevalent that the mayor found it necessary to send a letter to the council, at the suggestion of the chief of police, proposing an amendment to the old hunting ordinance, which has been doing duty since 1905 to the satisfaction of Chicago’s stay-at-home hunters. Most Chicagoans, who live in districts so congested that the report of a shotgun would bring a dozen policemen on the jump, are not aware that it is the practise of many other Chicagoans, who know about the hunting grounds, to sally forth, in season, and return with a bagful of game birds without ever having left the city limits. In a letter to the council, which accompanied the proposed amendment to the hunting ordinance, Mayor Busse told ot the numerous complaints occasioned by “metropolitan hunting” that had reached Chief Steward and caused him to ask for action by the city fathers. Wolf lake, Hyde lake. Lake Calumet and the Calumet river have been swarming with hunters in the shooting seasons of the past. At the continuance of these as hunting grounds the amendment is not aimed, and in future the echo of the reports of shotguns still will ring over their waters. That section of the Chicago “happy hunting ground" which the mayor would move from the realm of the primeval into that of the metropolitan comprises a section of the lake shore on the South side, the shore of the drainage canal and several other favored haunts of game. The only restriction on hunting in the "open” districts is that no shots be fired within 750 feet of a house, factory or barn. The section where hunting Would be prohibited, as enlarged by the passing of the amendment, would be: Beginning at the Intersection of Seventy-first street with Lake Michigan, thence west along Seventy-first street to South Kedzie avenue, thence along West Thirty-first street to South Fortieth avenue, thence north along South Fortieth avenue to West Montrose avenue, thence east along Montrose avenue to Western avenue.

and thence north along Western avenue to the city limits. Both ordinance and amendment prohibit the use of any weapon other than a shotgun.