Excerpt from Mayor's Annual Message and the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Department of Public Works: To the City Council of the City of Chicago, for the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 1889 Gentlemen - The city charter requires that the Mayor shall annually present to the City Council information relative to the affairs of the city, and shall recommend for its consideration such measures as he may deem expedient. In obedience to these requirements, I have the honor to present herewith a general summary of transactions of the past municipal year and such other information as the occasion seems to warrant. 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 successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.