Excerpt from The Beautiful Country Near Chicago Alatine, a very pretty village twenty-six miles northwest of Chicago, contains a populaton of It has many well-shaded streets and pretty homes. The country is gently rollino. A fine waterworks and sewer system is installed. Vvell-kept stores, a public hall, bank, good schools and several churches combine to make a residence in this center of an attractive agricultural section, a pleasure. The train service to and from the city is very conveniently arranged. 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.