Excerpt from Brief History of the Charitable Institutions of the State of Illinois, 1893 To let the world know what a magnificent work the State of Illinois has done and is doing for her unfortunate people, the Blind, the Deaf and Dumb, the Feeble Minded Children, the Insane, her Disabled Sol diers, and the Orphans of her Soldiers, the Committee on State Charitable Institutions of the Illinois Board of World's Fair Commissioners had prepared and published for gratuitous distribution a brief history of each of the State Charitable Institutions. These histories were prepared by the Superintendents of the several Institutions, and may therefore be cmsidered as authentic and reliable. They have been given to all visitors to the exhibits of these Institutions who desired to read them. To put these histories in a more conv'enient and more permanent form, 'the Com mittee on State Charitable Institutions ordered that 200 copies of these histories be bound in one volume, each volume containing one copy of each of these histories, for distribution to the State and County offices and to the State Institutions, Charitable and Educational, and this vol. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.