Excerpt from Illinois Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 4: July 1921-April 1921 Society and from the subscribers to and the readers of the review, thanks for the past and- support for the future for this work alone. But this has not been all that the Society and the review has attempted nor all that it has accomplished. They have by original research extended the knowledge Of the history of the Church in Illinois and necessarily therefore Of a most important part of the history of our Commonwealth, far beyond its limits when the Society was formed. This has been recognized not only by Catholics, but by many Protestant students of history [as well. 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.