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68 History University of Illinois resolution was passed unanimously: "Resolved, that the system of education proposed for the consideration of the people of Illinois by the friends of the Illinois Industrial League, is worthy of the highest regard of all classes of our citizens, and especially of our industrial classes, and men of business and property in our towns and great commercial centers." 14 On the Monday following the Alton meeting both the lecturers spoke before an audience in the Methodist church in Edwardsville. They were received in the same favorable way by the people and the press as they had been in Alton. Measures were taken to organize a county industrial league and a set of resolutions similar to those passed by the Alton meeting was adopted. From Edwardsville they went to Chicago, where they ar- rived on Thursday, January 12, and remained for two weeks. They succeeded in arousing a great deal of comment and discussion not only in the meetings held, but in the press of the city. The Daily Tribune, Daily Democrat, Democratic Press, Chicago Journal, Chicago Press, Free West and certain German papers gave notices of the meetings, reports of the addresses, and frequent editorials. The first lecture by Turner was given on the evening of Friday, January 13, and the second the evening following. During the next week Rutherford and Turner lectured in each of the public schools of the city. The attention of the city council was drawn to the subject by resolutions of one of the meetings and it voted to authorize the mayor to issue a proclamation calling a mass meeting of citizens. A public hall was appropriated by the council for the meeting, and a resolution passed that that body itself would attend. The call read as follows: i \ The citizens of Chicago are requested to meet at the South Market Hall this evening, January 25th to take into consideration the subject of establishing an Industrial University and State Normal School, and to petition the Legislature to appropriate the Seminary Fund for that purpose. By order of the Council, C. M. Gray, Mayor." u Alton Telegraph, January 7, 1854; see also Courier, January 7, 1854.
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