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Baga December 15, 1928 WINNETKA TALK kd Suburban District Shows Fine Gains in Building Field ra Ale iL A' iY EE Chicago suburbs closed the eleventh month of 1928 in a blaze of glory, making a 28 percent gain in November over November a year ago. The No- vember gain this year was 44 percent ahead of the volume of the suburban area for October, Sl IGGES | IONS These comparative figures as com- piled by S. W. Straus and company, ; are based on permits filed in forty-two suburbs. Building conditions in many of the or at > suburbs are particularly propitious. Evanston, with a November volume of $3,409,750, made a gain of 291 percent against November of last year, High- ) land Park, with a volume of $609,356, * made a November gain of 302 percent. m Joliet, with a November volume of $220,600, made a gain of 105 percent. Elgin, with 'a volume of $247,735 in November, made a gain of 184 percent. While the volumes were somewhat smaller in a number of suburbs sev- - eral made very unusual November gains as follows: Arlington Heights 1261 percent, Batavia 2238 percent, Niles Center 1396 percent and East Chicago, Indiana, 1003 percent. Other suburbs showing gains in November were as follows: . . : Aurora 14 percent, Berwyn 60 per- Here ma convenient shop, we i = cent, Calumet City 151 percent, . A. La Grange 179 percent, Baywood 11 present the choicest selection of Chicago Sleigh oe Percent Des rt . . £ anes percent, Elmhurst 25 per- Sm gif gout, Harvey i percent, Homewood a t pieces rom a great 4 miporien fF 368 percent, Kenilworth 106 percent, 4 : : n wmporte coffee La Grange 179 peresnt Maywood 11 metropolitan furnishing store. table with rosewood percent, North hicago 40 percent, . : Oak Park 12 percent, River Forest 482 These pieces are smart and Julays, marble top and per cent, and Wheaton 115 percent. . al . rass rail, $29.50. Tt is significant that out of forty-two practical, and they will endure Others from $19.75. suburbs twenty-three made gains in November. through many a Christmas to The suburbs and their gains as . . . shown in November against October come. We invite you to visit. this year included: Arlington Heights a 50 percent, Aurora 23 percent, Batavia Here are typical examples. 300 percent, Calumet City 32 percent, Des Plaines 49 percent, Elgin 47 per- cent, Elmhurst 82 percent, Elmwood Park 83 percent, Evanston 451 percent, Highland Park 325 percent, Homewood 478 percent, Joliet 7 percent, Lombard 14 percent, Maywood 20 percent, Mount Prospect 43 percent, Niles Cen- ter 26 percent, North Chicago 187 per- cent, Oak Park 117 percent, Wheaton Imported Directoire chair in beautiful 150 percent and East Chicago, Indiana : 103 percent. Wilmette, Winnetka, and hand-stitched A nest of tables which Glencoe showed decrease from No- needlework cover, isareal value at vember of a year ago. 575. Others from $29.50. One of sev- The gains shown in November will 34.50. eral styles. materially add to the volume in the metropolitan area for the year and will give this district the honor of having the second largest metropolitan growth in the country. This immense volume which is for- tunately closing, with the exception of December, the year 1928 has been han- dled with probably a greater efficiency because of improvement in working conditions than ever before in the his- tory of the city. It has also been han- dled with a minimum of misunder- 5 standing between labor and contrac- = tors, according to the survey. TO BE HOLIDAY GUESTS Mrs. William Steel of England ar- OHN . &° . rived last Wednesday to visit her sis- A ' ter, Mrs. Roland D. Whitman of 640 4 O N | { Hill road. Mrs. Whitman's daughter, Joyce, will return home next Friday . from Wellesley for the holidays and Chicago Avenue at Grove Street EVANSTON on the same day another sister of Mrs. Whitman, Miss Violet Coen, who is the assistant principal of the Man- hattan Trade School for Girls, will ar- rive to be the Whitman's houseguest. a a 3 a a Wi a a A a a a 0 Benjamin Crawford will arrive Fri- day, December 21, from Yale, to spend ¥ two weeks at his home at 623 Cherry 2 street. An exquisite cop) of an English teu table in figured walnut. Very un usual at $55. (Interior decorators in Chicago since 1866) Ee