Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1915 — Prosperity Parade in Chicago. [ARTICLE]

Prosperity Parade in Chicago.

William Hale Thompson, newly elected mayor of Chicago, took his oath of office Monday night. Prosperity boosters afoot, mounted and riding in floats, 1000,000 strong, passed through the streets of the city, while crowds estimated at one million look-, ed on. There were 1,000 automobiles in the parade, which was 15 miles long. As the parade started from Grant park the crowd was so dense that women in the throng shrieked in terror in fear of being crushed to death.