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Show MUST PAY f OR LAND THE COMPANY HADE CHICAGO. Nov. 15. Preliminary steps were taken yesterday by the State's Attorney's At-torney's office to secure for the State compensation for 200 acres of "made land" occupied by the Illinois Steel company com-pany and estimated to be worth J2.0OO.OOO. Assistant State's Attorney E. C. Lind-cy Lind-cy went to South Chicago, accompanied by a photographer and surveyor, and obtained ob-tained pictures showing the encroachment encroach-ment of the steel corporation land formed ijy the thousands of tons of slag that It has dumped into the lake. Measurements were taken that will form the basis, along with the photographs, of litigation to make the corporation pay for the land it "r.as, it Is alleged, appropriated from the State. |