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Suburban Areas j Show Vitality No one hias yet made a thorough andl exhaustive study of the growth of suburban Chicago, according~ to Homer Hoyt,. author of "One ý,iïun-ý dred Years of. Land Values in Chi-. cago," Which is about to be pub- lished by the Uniiversity.of Chicago Press,. Mr.. Hoyt's study a 'nd book are sponsored- by the Chicago- Titie & Trust company inm connection with tscentennial series 'on land values in Chicago. "Such a studN,," said 'Mr.. Hovr ".Wùul(1 involve the, examination of tvpical values throughout the five great ups and downs of land value since 1833, for the entire suburban area, including a thousand or more.: square miles,, as compare(l ivith the 21 1 square miles* Withini the -corporate limnits of Chicago. Transportation Big Factor "The expansion of suburbani Chi- cago has proceeded with tremnendous vitality in steadily enlarging circles f rom the timie when.,such townls as Irving Park, Hyde Park and, Blue> Island Were consideried rernote sub- url)af communities. The general im- pression ,of sýuburban growth .1 have gained in My eight years of research, has béeen that the. suburbs depeiied cie fi y upon improved transportation as; a new impulse to growtl. Thie suburbs were somnewha't renioved f roin the influences that accentuated the ups and downs of the land value curve lu the city. The.y advanced more steadily, and thére were timies. and1 localities -%hieni suburban values receded' scarcely' at ail, wvhile city, propertv vas ,showing marked re- cession. *.rs. john Kinzie, Jr., gives: us a powerf ul Word picture of- suburban Chicago-as she saw, it in 1831. In March of that year, riding horseback to Chicago from Fort, Winnebago (Portage, Xis.), she stayed overnight at *Lawton's' on the 'Aux Plaines' river. where Riverside now is. Her Yes, It's a-Farm flHouse Ths 'attrac4ive coalonial. ho-me is no'wbcing bitf or the suPerinteidcnt oél the estate near Woodstock, Ill., o7eyed -by Mlax* H. Hurd of ýWilniette. Mir. Hlurd reccntly purchased thle 230-acre Lelt;;ann tfarii, one of seve rai in that î icinity sold through Jo'hn B. Utley of IEvanston who is associated with the D. F. Quinlan Land office at Woodstock. Ralph E. Stoetzel is the $22,700 Residence on Glencoe Permnit Record Wihile. only two building permits were issued in Glencoe during tbe Park, Blue Island, Riverside, La Grange, Hinsdale and other towns2 developed to the south and west. - Evanston, Wilmnette, Winnetka, High-r land Park and Lake Forest developeds along the lake shore.,, 'When Winnetka was laid out Iin at $1,000 to $2,0Uan .1 Vr. *Ila ranges of values might be cited in de' scores. of suburbs north, west and cre south. val "ln the depression of 1873-1879, ini ýpent may extend or wnat s in population and in 1« the suburban area may rm ,next ten or twenty years."y ýn which was t0 W. A.- Magie, for an n addit ion to bis residence at '469 Maple iavenue, costing $600, and the other d for the gasoline filling station on the ýh R. D. Whitman site, at Center street and Winnetka avenue, costing $1i700. j