Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1904 — Chicago’s Wooden Sidewalks. [ARTICLE]

Chicago’s Wooden Sidewalks.

There are pending against the city of Chicago damage suits to the amount of $38,006,952. Most of these suits have been brought by persons who have suffered injuries beenuse of the city’s miserable wooden sidewalks. The streets and sMewaKs of the Windy City are admittedly among the worst in the world and the city’s finances are in snch deplorable condition that there is Httia prospect Of their betterment. David Belasco of New York is to erect • fine, modem theater at Omaha. Nth