Schiff Hardin strikes a balance

When Charles Hitchcock was 7 years old, working on his father’s farm near Plymouth Rock, Mass., Chicago was home to a mere 500 people. The year was 1834. Hitchcock arrived here 20 years later, when the city was already transforming into the center of the Midwest, an agricultural hub connecting the resources of the West to the masses on the East Coast. Population: 66,000. For an …

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