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Title: The era of the Civil War, 1848-1870
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Cole, Arthur Charles, 1886-1976 Alvord, Clarence Walworth, 1868-1928 Illinois. Centennial Commission
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Publisher: Springfield : Illinois Centennial Commission
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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want offood, fever, and cholera, drew attention to the fact of theheavy foreign immigration. It became evident that the Ger-man and Irish emigrant societies of St. Louis who aided inthe relief work had no effective Illinois counterpart, althougha few local German societies had their agents on the ground.It became widely published, also, that of the emigrants land-ing at New York in 1856 seven per cent went to Illinois, butthey brought with them over fourteen per cent of the cashmeans listed with the immigration authorities. Inducementsto foreign immigrants to come to Illinois were thereforeurged; a proper immigration system at Chicago was espe-cially favored.40 39 Belleville Advocate, May i, 1851. 40 Chicago Daily Democratic Press, January 24, 1854; Illinois State Reg-ister, January 26, 1854; Peru Daily Chronicle, February i, 1854; RockfordRegister, February 7, 1857; St. Clair Tribune, February 13, 20, 1857; IllinoisState Journal, January 12, 19, 1859; Chicago Democrat, July 24, 1857.
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PASSING OF THE FRONTIER 17 A considerable accession of French and French Canadiansettlers was made during the fifties. The sons and daughtersof la belle France increased so rapidly in Chicago that justwhen the influence of the old regime had about disappearedthey became numerous enough to erect a church of their ownwhere services were performed in their own language. Frenchconfectionery establishments began to make their appearanceand even a French hotel. Nearby was the strong FrenchCanadian settlement at Kankakee. It had steadily grownwith fresh additions from lower Canada, the emigration be-coming so considerable that the Canadian government tookalarm. In 1857 a French paper, the Journal de LIllinois,started publication at Kankakee with a subscription list of1,200 persons. Twelve miles up the Kankakee river, at St.Anne, a new settlement of French families from Montrealand Quebec was started in 1852 by Father Chiniquy, a RomanCatholic priest and temperance apostle of note, who acted

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