Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Heart of Chicago
River, where are the landings of the steamboat lines radiating from Chicago to all the principal ports of the Great Lakes. In its early days, before the city was reached by railways, its business was largely conducted by water, and South Water Street, along the bank of the Chicago River, was its first, and for many years, its only business street. On its west, south, and east sides are the terminals of all the railroads of this greatest railroad centre in the world, so that the passengers reaching the city by any method of public conveyance are landed in immediate proximity to the very heart of the city; in fact, the large amount of room acquired for these railroad terminals immediately about the business centre has a tendency to prevent its enlargement toward the south, which would be its natural direction of growth.
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