ITS

HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, STATISTICS, CONSTITUTION, LAWS, GOVERNMENT,
FINANCES, CLIMATE, SOIL, PLANTS, ANIMALS, STATE OF HEALTH,
PRAIRIES, AGRICULTURE, CATTLE-BREEDING, ORCHARDING,

CULTIVATION OF THE GRAPE, TIMBER-GROWING,
MARKET-PRICES, LANDS AND LAND-PRICES,

GEOLOGY, MINING, COMMERCE,
BANKS, RAILROADS, PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS, NEWSPAPERS, ETC., ETC.

BY

FRED. GERHARD.

WITH

A PRAIRIE AND WOOD MAP, A GEOLOGICAL MAP, A POPULATION

MAP, AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO, ILL.:
Κ Ε Ε Ν Α Ν D L Ε Ε.

PHILADELPHIA:
CHARLES DESILVER,

Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by

KEEN & LEE, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Northern

District of Illinois.

STEREOTYPED BY J. FAGAN, PHILADELPHIA.