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Washington, District Of Columbia
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On Oct. 10, about 100 prominent Chicago citizens departed for a Peoria convention on Oct. 11 to plan a canal linking Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River, facilitating bulk goods transport to the Gulf and allowing military vessels to access northern lakes if needed.
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Illinois Wants Lake Michigan Connected With the Mississippi.
CHICAGO, Oct. 10.—About one hundred prominent citizens of Chicago left for Peoria this afternoon as delegates to a convention to be held there to-morrow, which is to decide upon the ways and means of obtaining a channelway from the lower end of Lake Michigan to the Mississippi river of sufficient capacity to accommodate large-sized Mississippi river boats, so that the products of the country may be carried from the lake to the gulf without breaking bulk; also to enable vessels of war of considerable capacity to pass freely from the Gulf of Mexico into the defenseless waters of the northern lakes should the exigencies of our foreign relations ever require it.
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Peoria
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Oct. 10
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About one hundred prominent citizens of Chicago left for Peoria this afternoon as delegates to a convention to be held there to-morrow, which is to decide upon the ways and means of obtaining a channelway from the lower end of Lake Michigan to the Mississippi river of sufficient capacity to accommodate large-sized Mississippi river boats, so that the products of the country may be carried from the lake to the gulf without breaking bulk; also to enable vessels of war of considerable capacity to pass freely from the Gulf of Mexico into the defenseless waters of the northern lakes should the exigencies of our foreign relations ever require it.