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E44 CHICAGO THE KLEINMAN BROTHERS AND THE TREMONT HOUSE PART I
PART I
In 1801, Chicago was a swamp. From 1823
to 1832, Chicago was merely an Indian Agency; an agent of the American Fur
Company. David McKee, resident of Chicago during these early times, referred to
the Chicago River when he recalled: “Over it hovered wild geese, ducks and
sandhill cranes in vast flocks, and pelicans and swans were sometimes seen.”
In 1825, the year the Erie Canal was
completed between Albany and Buffalo, thus completing a navigable water route
from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, towns and cities near and along the
eastern seaboard, especially New York, were demanding more and more food,
including big and small game and waterfowl, which began arriving in ever
increasing amounts from the West, with Chicago being the main supplier.
The position of Chicago on the prairies
and within easy reach alike of the seaboard and the great plains gave her
gastronomes exceptional advantages, since she could command at once the oysters
of New Jersey and New York, the canvasbacks and redheads of Maryland, Louisiana
and the Gulf Coast of Texas, the prairie chickens, ducks, geese and wild
turkeys of Illinois and Iowa, mallards from Arkansas and Reelfoot Lake in
Tennessee, and venison and elk of the Rocky Mountains and British Columbia—this
was Chicago’s larder.
The serving of wild game became
fashionable and stimulated an enormous increase in market hunting, and no small
number of persons in and about Chicago shot game for the market, all excellent
shots with their long fowling pieces.
PART II WILL BE ON THE KLEINMAN BROTHERS AND THE TREMONT HOUSE.
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PART I
In 1801, Chicago was a swamp. From 1823
to 1832, Chicago was merely an Indian Agency; an agent of the American Fur
Company. David McKee, resident of Chicago during these early times, referred to
the Chicago River when he recalled: “Over it hovered wild geese, ducks and
sandhill cranes in vast flocks, and pelicans and swans were sometimes seen.”
In 1825, the year the Erie Canal was
completed between Albany and Buffalo, thus completing a navigable water route
from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, towns and cities near and along the
eastern seaboard, especially New York, were demanding more and more food,
including big and small game and waterfowl, which began arriving in ever
increasing amounts from the West, with Chicago being the main supplier.
The position of Chicago on the prairies
and within easy reach alike of the seaboard and the great plains gave her
gastronomes exceptional advantages, since she could command at once the oysters
of New Jersey and New York, the canvasbacks and redheads of Maryland, Louisiana
and the Gulf Coast of Texas, the prairie chickens, ducks, geese and wild
turkeys of Illinois and Iowa, mallards from Arkansas and Reelfoot Lake in
Tennessee, and venison and elk of the Rocky Mountains and British Columbia—this
was Chicago’s larder.
The serving of wild game became
fashionable and stimulated an enormous increase in market hunting, and no small
number of persons in and about Chicago shot game for the market, all excellent
shots with their long fowling pieces.
PART II WILL BE ON THE KLEINMAN BROTHERS AND THE TREMONT HOUSE.
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