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Excerpt from Chicago, 1837-1922: 85th Anniversary It is particularly fitting that Peacock's should be known as The Jewelry Store for All Chi cago, as well as for all the people of. The Great Middle West, for the House of Peacock's started with Chicago, suffered with Chicago through its great fire and panics, and with Chicago it grew from a very modest start to a great enterprise. 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.