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This map depicts information compiled by Alfred Theodore Andreas in
his History of Chicago. Like the 1812 map it is a retrospective
one. (Only the 1821 map was made at the time the landscape was seen.) The
large numbers refer to the survey sections. Bridgeport was in Section
Twenty-nine, the South Branch Addition in Section Twenty-eight; the
southern sections of Bridgeport were in Sections Thirty-two and
Thirty-three. The odd-numbered sections were donated to the state by the
federal government for the purpose of funding the constuction of the
Illinois and Michigan canal. Note that subdivision has taken place of the
non-canal commission controlled lands by this time.
Source: A. T. Andreas, History of Chicago, vol. I (Chicago: A.T. Andreas, 1884), pp. 112ff.
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