On verso: "From the Federal Music Project; Works Progress Administration; 632 North Dearborn Street; Tel. Delaware 1193; For release Saturday, October 9; Dr. Nikolai Sokoloff directs the eighty members of the Illinois Symphony orchestra in their final rehearsal for the orchestra's gala opening concert tomorrow (Sunday, October 10) at the Great Northern Theater. Dr. Sokoloff, who will appear as guest conductor to inaugurate the orchestra's second season, is national director of the federal music project which employs more than four hundred musicians in the Chicago area alone, and is noted as the founder and former conductor of the Cleveland Symphony orchestra; (City Editor has story)."]]>
On verso: "Ninian Edwards home where Lincoln was married. Present site of Centen. Bldg."]]>
Political cartoonist Harold R. Heaton depicts the two warring Republican factions, those supporting University of Chicago political scientist Charles E. Merriam and sitting governor Charles S. Deneen (1905-1913), blocking the path to the capital, while the Democrats look on from the sidelines.]]>