FWIW: "Chicago as a summer resort" (1876)

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_CHICAGO  AS A SUMMER RESORT._
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Chicago Daily Tribune  (1872-1963). Chicago, Ill.: Jun 14, 1876. p. 4 (1
page) :
CHICAGO AS A SUMMER RESORT

The return of the summer months, with their product of green trees,  warbling
birds, asparagus, strawberries, balmy breezes, grasshoppers, picnics,  and
new potatoes, once more suggests the propriety of urging upon the people of
this country the peculiar and unique claims of Chicago as a place of summer
resort. While Boston is baking, New York boiling, Philadelphia broiling,
Washington simmering, and Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Louisville, St. Louis, and  other
suburbs of Chicago frying, the people of this city are enjoying cool  breezes,
refreshing rains, green fields, a grateful sun, and balmy air--winds  from the
north and east tempered by the the (sic) coolness of the Lake, and from  the
south and west, bearing to us fragment hints of the grass, flowers, wheat  and
corn of the prairies.