Excerpt from Seventh Annual Report of the Board of Public Works to the Common Council of the City of Chicago: For the Municipal Fiscal Year Ending March 31st, 1868 Extensive and important additions and improvements to the works were made during the year. During the year the engine room of the new pumping works was finished. For commodiousness and beauty, it has few equals. The finished works, it is believed, will compare favorably with any in our country. 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.