Ann Durkin Keating

And the federal money comes in with the real estate investors.

So you've got real estate investors from New York and other East Coast places, and then eventually Chicago investors.

And it's those folks who

and want to stay in Chicago and continue to invest in Chicago.

Someone like William Ogden, who will make a lot of money on real estate investment coming out of New York.

And then he turns around and he's going to build the first railroad.

So he's going to, you know, and he's going to be the guy that brings Cyrus McCormick to Chicago, who's developing one of the first Reapers.

You could add in the Civil War.

Your point about St.

Louis is that Chicago kind of kiboshes St.

Louis's aspirations because Chicago then will become an entrepot for the U.S.

during the Civil War.

And it will continue to grow, continue to industrialize, continue to draw in immigrants through a time period when St.

Louis is often under military control.

Great fun.

Thank you.