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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 appearing in the Tribune's ad was the wrong date; the scan is taken from the Tribune of 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.

Just to add to the confusion a little, it is true that Hollingsworth had these ad's (complete with the same misspelling of his own name -- look carefully!) put up in the Tribune in 1857, but I couldn't get a decent scan from any of those copies. In the end, I scanned from an 1858 copy, and that's my rationale for putting in the 1858 date. I hope this is all in order. :)
jonathan riley (talk) 03:40, 25 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

'One source' tag.

I took off M0rphzone's "One source|date=August 2013" tag, as there was no way for me to ascertain how many sources is a sufficient number. Tag causes text to show on article page: "[...] Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page [...]", yet there is nothing on the talk page about the number of sources. Well, at least until now.
jonathan riley (talk) 04:10, 25 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]