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Show ILLINOIS FAVORS LOCJIIJPTI About Fifteen Hundred Saloons Put Out of Business as Result of Tuesday's Election. In Twenty-two Counties of the State Saloons Will henceforth Not be Allowed. Al-lowed. Nebraska Town Votes to Permit Saloons to Continue Business. Chicago. notween 1,200 and 1,500 saloons were voted out of business in tho local option elections held by 1,150 townships In eighty-four counties of Illinois Il-linois on Tuesday. Twenty-two counties coun-ties voting to become absolutely anti-saloon anti-saloon territory, In addition to the nine countLs which abolished saloons last November. Thus thlrty-ono of tho 102 counties In tho state nro now entirely dry. In tho election most of tho lnrgcr cities of tho stato declared In favor of saloons, whllo tho towns and rural communities genornlly voted to put them out of business. Oho of the big disappointments of the dny to tho antl-saloon leaguers was tho result in Illoomlngton. An especially ardent campaign hnd been waged thoro against tho Bnloons, yet tho majority In favor of tho liquor Interests In-terests was over 1,900. Tho twenty-two counties of tho stato in which saloons will henceforth not bo nllowed nro: Iloone, Moultrie, Fnyotte, Hamilton, Edgar, Clark, Mercer, Mer-cer, Wlnnlbago, Ilrown, Saline, Gallatin, Galla-tin, Douglas, Mucon, Piatt, Dewltt, Cumberland, Shelby, Coles, White, Wnyne, Rlchlnnd nnd Champaign. Lincoln, Neb. Lincoln on Tuesday voted to retain saloons by n majority ot 171 In n total vote of 7,800. |