Chicago from 1880 to 1890
Skandinaven, Nov. 10, 1890
An interesting group of figures has been compiled by this paper. We believe that forty years from now, 1930, Chicago will have at least a population of twenty million people. There will be at least a hundred-mile frontage, and let us say four hundred thousand buildings.
If we did not have the following statistics, it would seem impossible:
| 1880 | 1890 | |
| Census | 491,516 | 1,268,669 |
| Buildings | 1,342 | 10,947 |
| Cost of Buildings | $8,206,550 | $47,407,149 |
| Churches | 187 | 317 |
| 1880 | 1890 | |
| Street railway mileage | 140 | 387 |
| Horses in Horse car services | 2,450 | 9,051 |
| Buildings built since great fire | 55,579 | |
| Cost | $255,383,928 | |
| Frontage in feet | 1,345,680 |
