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January 18, 1929 WILMETTE IS LIFE 17 ma~e ~ total volume or $111,913,856 Seminar'" Lecturer BUILDING IN SUBURBS wh·ch comparable .to $116,407,066 for "' 1927.. If the Gary, Indiana, total for Tells of Research HALF BILLION IN 1928 the year had not taken such a drop · A · H· ChicagQ Metropolitan Area Hu Tremendous Activity, Straus Re.-ort lnclicatea Building construction for the metro·· poli.tan area of Chicago totals approximiltely a half billion dollars for 1928, according to an estimate following an exhaustive survey of the area within forty miles of Chicago. While words and generalities have bespoken the prosperity of this great and commercial circle, with Chicago as the hub, the figures speak for themselves substantiating any previous predictions or estimates as to the · solidity and general prosperity of this area during the last twelve months. According to the building .mrvey department of S. W. Straus and company, the total amount of building forty-two suburbs reporting for 1928 was · $116,178,259. This figure added to the total building volume of Chicago for 1928, which had a volume of $315,800,000, would give a grand total of $31,978,259. Numerous suburbs do not report and engineering projects in trye district are not generally counted m the permit totals; therefore, the additional building construction, exclusive of roads and highways, would bring the total conservatively close to the half billion dollar mark. For the year thirty-seven ' suburb. s in · over 19?J the suburban area would have shown a gain. In the yearly comparison the greatest prosperity in building is shown by the following suburban increases : Kenilworth 162 perce.nt, Elmwood Park 151 percent, Homewood 97 percent, Chicago Heights 85 percent, La Grange 79 percent, Flossmoor 70 percent, River Forest 62 percent, Elmhurst 46 percent, Wilmette 42 percent, Hi2hland Park 41 percent, Maywood 40 percent, Whiting 38 percent, Mount Prospect 34 percent, Harvey 33 percent, Elgin 17 percent, Joliet 16 percent, Lake Forest 11 percent, Blue !stand 6 percent, Berwyn 5 percent, Aurora 4 percent. Hammond 4 percent and Oak Park 2 percent. Fortv-one suburbs showed the CO.!Tlparati~e total building volume in December of $6,807,670. In the closing month of the year the suburbs making si~nificant gains over December last year were as fotlows : West Chicago 4825 percent, Batavia 2257 percent, Maywood 425 percent. Homewood 402 percent, Geneva 374 oercent, Forest Park 3.48 percent, Des Plaines 311 percent, Lombard 260 percent, Arlington Heights 208 percent, Berwvn 172 percent, Lake Forest 160 perce~t. Mount Prospect 137 percent. Highland Park 111 percent, and Waukegan 99 percent. . ·n nctent ·story Various steps by which such ancient empires as Egypt, Babylon and Assyria have been restored through archaeological research, were related in the lecture given Thursday evening at Garrett institute, opening the ] anuary J~c ture series of the Western TheologiC'al seminary. Under the general title, "Some Aspects of the Modern Study of the Bible," the· series of three are in order the three .,middle" Thursday evening~ of this month. The opening leeture which had to do with "The Rerovery of Forgotten Empires," was given by the Rev. Samuel A. B. Mercer, D. D., Ph. D., professor of Semetic languages and Egyptology at Trinity col!ege, University of Toronto, Canada. 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