ITS

ILLINOIS AS IT IS;

BY

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.

WITH

FRED. GERHARD.

CHICAGO, ILL.:

A PRAIRIE AND WOOD MAP, A GEOLOGICAL MAP, A POPULATION
MAP, AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS.

KEEN AND LEE.

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,