Chronicles of Notre Dame du Lac
Edward Sorin, CSC -- Translated by John M. Toohey, CSC, 1895

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1856

pg 297                                   5.  Chicago
                  We now come to the most important of all the dependencies of 
             the Province of Indiana.  If heaven bless this work the house of 
             Chicago will probably share in the destinies of the city in which 
             it is located.  Now it is the opinion of the public that Chicago 
             will be one of the first cities of the Union.  Its growth is 
             unparalleled.  Fifteen [years] ago Chicago had only seven thousand 
             inhabitants; today it has more than one hundred thousand.  
1856              It was in last September the Congregation established itself 
             there--Priests, Brothers, and Sisters, in virtue of an agreement 
             with the Ordinary for fifty years.
                  The principal permits of this agreement are, on the one side:
                  That for fifty years the Bishop gives to the Congregation of 
             Holy Cross, for $2000 per an., the use of the college of St. Mary 
             of the Lake, with the ground on which it stands, 300 x 300 ft., to 
             maintain there a respectable high school, with full liberty to add