Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1920 — CHICAGO FAILS TO STRIKE THREE MILLION MARK [ARTICLE]

CHICAGO FAILS TO STRIKE THREE MILLION MARK

Chicago is the third city in the world, according to the census figures which have just been released from Washington showing that the great center of the middle west has inhabitants to the number Of 2,884,827. It is surpassed only by London and New York. • At the last census Chicago was fourth in rank among the cities of the world. London was first, New York second and Paris third. But Paris has been growing only at the rate of 20,000 yearly, while Chicago has leaped ahead at a rate of 70,000 annually. . • Ten years ago the Illinois city had 2,85,253 residents within her boundaries. Twenty years ago she claimed but a million and a half. In the next ten years it is the prediction that Chicago will have grown to a size of 4,000,000. This is only a little more than the yearly average growth of 100,000 which the Boosters say they will attract to the lake city.