History of the Chicago Police (Classic Reprint): From the Settlement of the Community to the Present Time, Under Authority of the Mayor and ... Superintendent of the Force (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Flinn, John J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331973007 ISBN 13: 9781331973003

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from History of the Chicago Police: From the Settlement of the Community to the Present Time, Under Authority of the Mayor and Superintendent of the Force Let me say at the outset that the prepatration of this work was undertaken with a very evenly-balanced mixture of diidence and condence. Had the great re of October.1571. resulted only in the destruction of buildilngs. we would look, almost in vain. for traces of it to-day. The black and desolate track which marked the wake of that cnlaiuitnus and awful conagration is hidden benmith a New Chicago; the memory of our people is l)ecoming dimmed and confused regarding its course and bouml: uy, and the lIll1I r.l0l1S, almost ll11l Cl1l0ll Srecovery of the city from this terrible blow has reconciled our citizens to the event. dread- ful as it was, and heartrending as were the inc.i: lr: nt: s which surrounded it. The buildings destroyed have been replaced by others more substantial, more beautiful. The fortunes lust have been recovered in so many cases that the exceptions are not remarked. The conglomerate Illnss of melted iron, Sll lti0l I.(l granite, pulverized brick, p-mwlereml glass and smouldering nu-rchandise. which covered like a hideous pail the once beautiful district, on the Incmorahle morning of Oct.10. in the hands of Providence fertilized the soil, and prepared it for the golden harvests which were to follow. But the re destroyed many things which can never be replaced. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331973007
• ISBN 13: 9781331973003
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 819