Aurora, Illinois, USA
1895 - Aurora

Aurora, a city of Kane co., Ill., in Aurora township, on Fox River, and on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail road at its junction with the Chicago & Iowa Railroad, 39 miles W.S.W. of Chicago, 160 miles E.S.E. of Dubuque, and 44 miles N.E. of Ottawa. It is the N.E. terminus of a railroad called the Fox River Line, and a branch railroad extends to this place from Turner. It has increased rapidly in the last decade. It contains 2 high and 9 public schools, Jennings Seminary (for both sexes), a fine city hall, 20 churches, 5 national banks, and printing-offices which issue 5 daily, 1 semi-weekly and 3 weekly newspapers, stove works, iron-works, a cotton-factory, a road-cart factory, a foundry, smelting and refining works, several machine shops, 4 flouring-mills, a woollen-mill, a manufactory of silverware, 4 manufactories of carriages, and 3 of sash and blinds. Here are workshops of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, which employ over 1200 men making cars, &c. It has a stand-pipe system of water-works, and the city is lighted by gas and electricity. Pop. in 1860, 6011; in 1880, 11,873; in 1890, 19,688.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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