CHICAGO: A. D. 1909. Population, and race mixture. The City Statistician of Chicago, in his manual for 1909, gives the number of the inhabitants of the city as 2,572,835, of whom 699,554 are Americans or persons whose parents are not foreign born. The Germans rank second, with a population of 563,708; the Irish third, with a population of 240,560. Next come the Poles, with 173,409; the Swedes, with 143,307; the Russians, with 123,238; the Bohemians, with 116,549. Thirty other foreign countries given are all below the 100,000 mark. The Chinese population is given as 1,801, the Japanese as 257. The Albanians are the lowest, with a population of 39. CHICAGO: A. D. 1909. "The Chicago Plan." Systematizing the future development. "Early in 1906 the Merchants’ Club, comprising a group of the younger business and professional men of the city, arranged for the preparation of a complete project for the future development of Chicago. The next year the Merchants’ Club was merged with the Commercial Club under the name of the latter organization, and the city-planning work was continued under the auspices of that body." The resulting "Plan of Chicago" was reported in the course of the summer of 1909. "The report represents about thirty months’ work by men whose thoughts for years have dwelt upon the subject of city building and beautification. The work was in charge of Daniel H. Burnham, chief architect and director of works of the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, who gave his services to his city without compensation for the purpose of this report. Even so, the expense of preparing and publishing the report has approximated $75,000, all raised by voluntary subscriptions from the business men of Chicago." _George C. Sikes, The New Chicago (The Outlook, August 28, 1909)._ {82} CHICAGO: A. D. 1909 (May). The Second National Peace Congress. See (in this Volume) WAR, THE REVOLT AGAINST: A. D. 1909. CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE AND ST. PAUL TRANSCONTINENTAL LINE. See (in this Volume) RAILWAYS: UNITED STATES: A. D. 1909. CHI-KUAN-SHAN, Fort, Capture of. See (in this Volume) JAPAN: A. D. 1904-1905 (MAY-JANUARY). ----------CHILDREN, UNDER THE LAW: Start-------- CHILDREN, UNDER THE LAW: As Dependents: England: The Poor Law Children. The following is from a speech in Parliament June 17, 1909, by Mr. John Burns, President of the Local Government Board, which administers the Poor Laws and the Public Health Laws: