Excerpt from The Story of Old Fort Dearborn and Its Connection With a Century of Progress: International Exposition, Chicago, 1933 Fort dearborn, the first completed unit of A Century of Progress, has sprung up over night in sunny safety, typifying the long march from wilderness to sky-scraper, from candlelight to electricity, from oxcart to airplane. No fear of des perate Indians, no battle with the wilderness, no slow and tedious struggle with ineffective tools and crude materials impeded the progress of this building. 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.