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November 30, 1928 WILMETTE LIFE 61 · .. · · COAL AVAILABLE TO METROPOLITAN CHICAGO EQUALS FIVE TIMES THE COAL RESERVES OF ALL EUROPE SMALL trading post less than one hundred years ago-a center of 4,500,000 people today. That is the romantic story of ·Metropolitan Chicago. No other modern metropolitan center has ever gro·wn so large in so short a civic lifetime. And this remarkable growth is due in no small measure to our advantageous sources of coal supply. Imagine, if you c.an, America stripped of her fuel supply. What would happen? Factories would close their doors. Machines would l! v idle. Industries would cease. And our big cities would crumble. led convenience are af· forded; where, in ad-· clition to coa~ there . exist rich resources of nature, both mineral · and agricultural. . · More than threefourths of all the coal produced in the The shaded art!U art underlaid with coal. Unl'tedStatesisreadily ·( Ul\Ued States Geological SuTvey. ) Mon available to Metropolthan three·tourths ot the coal produced in the United States is nadily available to itan Chicago. Th e Metropolltan ChiCago. ( All these advantages coalavailableto Metro"-----------are afforded in Metpolitan Chicago equals · five times the coal reserves of all Europe! ropolitan Chicago. That is one rca· The State of Illinois itself is more than son for the phenomenal growth of sixty per cent underlaid with coal! Metropolitan Chicago-one reason why this area has every possibility of becoming It is logical that industry should settle the world's greatest metropolitan center, in where coal is plentiful and low in cost; population as well as in trade importance. _where transportation facilities of unequalCopits of tht four adwrtistmt1\ts which haw already appe~rt~ may be obtained without c~r~e by addre.s.si'llg Public &TVitt Comllcmy of Northern Ilh'I\Ots, 72 W. Adams St., Ch\Ca,o, It is logical, 'too, thnt industry should prefer a central location with its obvious ad· vantages for distribution; a location close to the nation's geo· graphic centers of population and industry. PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS Supplying Electricity and Gas to 6,000 squan miles, including tht Mttropolitan Area into which Chic~go i5 growing. ·.Mehollolita" Chicago i'lcludu the City of Chicago a"d the territory withi" 50 to 75 milu of the Chic~eo City Hall