County of Cook Hospital Bond - 1911 dated $1,000 Specimen Bond - Vignette Showing the Great Chicago Fire
Inv# SE2356 Specimen Bond
$1,000 4% Specimen Bond printed by Western Bank Note & Engraving Co., Chicago. Pictured left side of vignette is the Chicago fire and a train; to the right is the rebuilding of the city. Very Rare! Full page of coupons attached.
Cook County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Illinois and the second-most-populous county in the United States, after Los Angeles County, California. More than 40 percent of all residents of Illinois live within Cook County. As of 2020, the population was 5,275,541. The county seat is Chicago, the most populous city in Illinois and the third most populous city in the United States. The county is at the center of the Chicago metropolitan area.
Cook County was incorporated in 1831 and named for Daniel Pope Cook, an early Illinois statesman. It achieved its present boundaries in 1839. Within a century, the county recorded explosive population growth, going from a trading post village with a little over six hundred residents to four million, rivaling Paris by the Great Depression. During the first half of the 20th century it had the absolute majority of Illinois's population. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_County,_Illinois
Stock and Bond Specimens are made and usually retained by a printer as a record of the contract with a client, generally with manuscript contract notes such as the quantity printed. Specimens are sometimes produced for use by the printing company's sales team as examples of the firm’s products. These are usually marked "Specimen" and have no serial numbers.
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