Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1919 — 20,000 FAMILIES MOVING TODAY [ARTICLE]

20,000 FAMILIES MOVING TODAY

'Twenty thousand families, about one-fifth the usual number, are moving today, according to Ivan O. Ackey, secretary of the Chicago Renting Agents’ Association. “I believe it is because there are very few buildings available and people would rather stay in their present apartments than move into others equally as old,” he said. “The increased cost of moving deters many. Apartments are scarcer than they have been since the World’s i’’air.” The moving companies say they are doing rushing business; much of. it storage for people who have to give up fiats and cannot find others. (