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Section about private homes?

The garden level or garden apartment is practically unknown outside of Chicago, and it results from the redesign of houses forced by the city's raising. Most homeowners could not afford to have a home lifted, as the buildings on this page were, so they built steps up to what had once been the second floor. In homes that are divided up into apartments, this leaves a garden apartment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.76.245.253 (talk) 21:25, 28 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Cholera Epidemic Mith?

culminating in the 1854 outbreak of cholera that killed six percent of the city’s population.

That seems to propagate the Chicago 1885 cholera epidemic myth. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SCriBu (talk • contribs) 21:51, 29 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It's referring to the 1854 epidemic, which really did happen. --Carnildo (talk) 22:15, 30 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Date confusion 1857 / 1858 advertisement in the Tribune.

Well done Manjel on spotting that the date on the scanned image taken from the Tribune doesn't match the date in the WP text I originally wrote. In fact though, the date in the Tribune's ad is wrong, and my text was correct all along. The scan is taken from the Tribune dated "January 29th, 1858". I suspect a tired and stressed typist had forgotten that the year had just changed -- it was still only January after all. I've made that un-named typist's mistake often enough myself. :)