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Show '' LARGE INCREASE IN tHICAGO BANKING CHICAGO, Not. 1. Clearings of Chicago Chi-cago banks in October were in excess of $1,000,000,000, the exact amount being $1,000,451,400. This is the largest total to-tal for any month in the historv 0f the Chicago clearing-house. It exceeds by nearly $8,000,000 the former high record of $994,953, made last December during the banking activity ac-tivity caused by the closing of the Chicago Chi-cago National and other Walsh institutions, institu-tions, and in about $14,000,000 higher than the January clearings which had held the high mark for this year. The increase in the clearings in the month just ended was nearly $83,000,-000 $83,000,-000 over the total for October. 1903. |