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The Chicago Foreign Language Press Survey was published in 1942 by the Chicago Public Library Omnibus Project of the Works Progress Administration of Illinois. The purpose of the project was to translate and classify selected news articles that appeared in the foreign language press from 1855 to 1938. The project consists of 120,000 typewritten pages translated from newspapers of 22 different foreign language communities of Chicago.
the various Swedish societies of Chicago will hold a joint mammoth picnic in Gardner's Park on Sunday, August 24. The most elaborate preparations are being made to make this picnic an outstanding event in the history of Swedish people of Chicago, to which end the following societies are uniting their best efforts: Svithiod; Nordstjernan; Iduna; Svea; Kronan; Vega; Engelbrekt; Balder; Gustav Adolf II; and the Swedish Glee Club.
In this connection we will cite the report just made by the financial secretary of the Linne Memorial Fund Society. He states that a sum of not less than $1,376. has been made to the Society's treasury during the month of July and that the contributions up to and including July 31 totalled $12,463.81.