Book excerpt: Excerpt from First Annual Report of the Department Labor: July 1, 1917 to June 30, 1918 East St. Louis, Peoria, Rockford, Rock Island, and Springfield. The duties of each Free Employment Office noted above are similar to those of the Chicago office. Each operates in the territory assigned to it by the department, and cooperates with the other offices and with the Federal Employment Service. 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.