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Petition in Support of Public Bathing Beach on Lake Michigan, 1895

 

 

 

Petition in Support of Public Bathing Beach on Lake Michigan, 1895

The Free Bath and Sanitary League petitioned the Lincoln Park Board Commissioners to establish a bathing beach on Lake Michigan between Fullerton and Diversey. It secured more than six hundred signatures of support from prominent doctors and reformers in the city.