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What was population when he arrived?

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   It would be valuable IMO to know if he was so quickly given a place in local government bcz Chi was so far from being a city, or bcz his former rank proved his leadership skills.
Thus i for one would go so far as to say

"He arrived in ####, when Chicago was a town estimated at a population of ##,000, that had been named only ## years before."

or

... been settled for only ## years."

--Jerzyt 09:38, 16 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]