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| | History of Chicago : From 1857 until the Fire of 1871 |
 | | The General Government at last had become cognizant of the errors of the past, and made an appropriation of $88,000, which enabled the contractors to extend the pier six hundred feet further to the eastward. |
 | | In May, 1871, a contract was entered into with the Illinois Central Railroad Company for continuing the work, the expense to be met by the appropriation of $100,000 made by Congress in March, 1871. |
 | | The expenditures for harbor and improvements by the city from 1861 to 1871 were as follows : 1861, $291.25; 1862-63, $507.99; 1863-64, $30,255.67; 1864-65; $52,097.51; 1865-66, $115,840.95; 1866-67, $25,351.58; 1867-68, $23,830.58; 1868-69, $82,405.63; 1869-1870, $65,485 12; 1870-71, $120,265 08. |
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