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Chicago Takes the Head

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 4, 1882

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 8, No. 18.

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Chicago Takes the Head

CHICAGO takes the head. The Inter-Ocean thus describes the peculiarity of one small district in that city: "Five hundred liquor saloons, 200 houses of prostitution, 150 concert saloons, gambling houses, and pool-rooms—all in a region bounded by Van Buren, Fourteenth, State and Clark Streets, five blocks one way and four the other. In this territory it is estimated there are 3,000 abandoned women, and the nightly orgies of these maddened and dissolute people are attended by 12,000 young men, who, it is estimated, spend on the average fully $100,000 weekly in the most depraved and degrading amusement.—Lever.