{"id":290,"date":"2007-08-31T08:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T08:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/new-blog\/?p=290"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:10:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:10:39","slug":"look-at-old-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/look-at-old-chicago.html","title":{"rendered":"Look At Old Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/images\/d\/d8\/1893-Map-Of-Chicago.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/images\/d\/d8\/1893-Map-Of-Chicago.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Think you know Chicago?   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:1893-Map-Of-Chicago.jpg\">This map will probably interest you<\/a>. Live in old Chicago?  You can probably see your house from here. Distributed for the 1893 World&#8217;s Exhibition, on this side it shows an entire map of Chicago &#8212; which, in pre-automobile-times, was probably as difficult to cross as it is to travel across entire states today.  Without Google Maps, AAA, or even a casual knowledge of the city beyond a half-mile, people needed to know how to get from their home to the Expo:  a city-wide map was necessary.  The back has pictures of various features in the Expo &#8212; I may get around to scanning it eventually.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/1164514753160272371-6262553161494441851?l=www.infomercantile.com\/blog\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think you know Chicago? This map will probably interest you. Live in old Chicago? You can probably see your house from here. Distributed for the 1893 World&#8217;s Exhibition, on this side it shows an entire map of Chicago &#8212; which, in pre-automobile-times, was probably as difficult to cross as it is to travel across entire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5,558,557,3,556],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1228,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/1228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}