Sears, Roebuck and Company and Montgomery Ward, the great mail-order houses, were located in Chicago because it was __________

A) America's largest city
B) the center of the consolidated rail system
C) the place where most consumer goods were manufactured
D) positioned to take advantage of transport on the Great Lakes


Answer: B

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