Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1906 — Great Is Chicago. [ARTICLE]

Great Is Chicago.

Chicago Inter Ocean: Chicago is the greatest railway center in the world. .No other city in America and no city in Europe can compare with it in this respect. Radiating from Chicago are twenty-five lines or systems of rail way whica operate 50,000 miles of track. These railway lines find entranee to six great union terminals. Shut your eyes and imagine 11,537 trains o( all description arriving and departing over these twenty-five railway systems daily—remember that you are not imagining cars but trains — full tiains—trains that will average 500 feet in length—and then imagine these trains placed end to end and stretching out on any one of the lines a distance of 145 miles!