Chicago 1850 to 1910

[David Morris]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/06/upshot/what-happened-to-the-american-boomtown.html?_r=1

Chicago in 1850 was a muddy frontier town of barely 30,000 people. Within
two decades, it was 10 times that size. Within another two decades, that
number had tripled. By 1910, Chicago — hog butcher for the world
<https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/12840/chicago>,
headquarters of Montgomery Ward, the nerve center of the nation’s rail
network — had more than two million residents.

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