Excerpt from The Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 23: Organ for Young Latter-Day Saints; October 1, 1888 As early as 1875, Chicago had 238 houses of public worship, and the Roman Catholic Church owned property within the city limits valued at Both the number of churches and the value of church property have been largely increased in the last thirteen years. 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.