Excerpt from Biennial Message of Richard J. Oglesby, Governor of Illinois, to the Thirty-Sixth General Assembly: January 9, 1889 The impartiality and competency of the officers in charge of the inspection and warehousing of grain increases the confidence of the public in the utility and management of these departments, and as a result, the Chicago grain inspection maintains the high place it has fairly won in all the grain markets of the world. 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.