BOMBS AND DEBTS
CHICAGO'S SAD PLIGHT
A CITY "GONE BROKE"
(Received 30th January, 2.30 p.m.) CHICAGO, 29th January.
The- Mayor of Chicago, Mr. William Thompson, admitted publicly for the first' time in a statement that Chicago was "broke" and tottering on the brink f financial disaster. As a remedy, and as the only hope for relief for thousands of city employees who are without wages and are existing on loan money, the Mayor demanded that the SJ-ate Legislature should be called into a special session to deal with the city's 300,000.000 dollar debt.
Meanwhile Chicago's reputation for bombing continues unabated. An attempt was made to put a bomb in the car of one of the State's attorneys who has been active against gangsters, while bombs last night blew up a building on the fashionable Michigan avenue and two structures in other parts of the city.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 25, 30 January 1930, Page 10
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