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Subject: Re: [ILROOTS] Dunning Institute
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 14:45:37 EST

I don't have any info on the inmates. That's why I was trying to find out if
institutions were on the censuses. I can quote from the report of October 1,
1900 about Dunning for you.

"A volume the size of this entire report might be written in praise of the
pauper institutions of this county and still leave much of interest untold.
They are a credit to the county and are unequaled by any such institutions in
the State. They are located at Dunning, ten and one-half miles northwest of
Chicago, on a beautiful tract of land containing two hundred and sixty-five
acres, a large portion of which is elegantly shaded and laid out in lawns and
artificial lakes. The buildings are all brick, the three principal ones
being the almshouse, the insane asylum and the consumptive hospital, which
together with a large group of cottages and the necessary out-buildings cover
one hundred acres of land. At the time of inspection these buildings
sheltered 2,624 inmates and several hundred officers and employees."

Joan

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