The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . 58 THE SITK AND HOW TO REACH IT. Encircling the older portion of the city is a system of parks andboulevards which when completed will rival those of any city in theworld. On the shore of the lake, at a point but a short distancenorth of the business centre, beo^ins the Lake Shore Drive, a mae-nificent boulevard, which extends along the waters edge nearly twomiles to Lincoln Park, the most highly improved of all in thesystem. From this green spot in the heart of the city runs anotherdrive; Humboldt Boulevard extends west and south five miles to
The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . 58 THE SITK AND HOW TO REACH IT. Encircling the older portion of the city is a system of parks andboulevards which when completed will rival those of any city in theworld. On the shore of the lake, at a point but a short distancenorth of the business centre, beo^ins the Lake Shore Drive, a mae-nificent boulevard, which extends along the waters edge nearly twomiles to Lincoln Park, the most highly improved of all in thesystem. From this green spot in the heart of the city runs anotherdrive; Humboldt Boulevard extends west and south five miles toHumboldt Park. This connects by Central Boulevard with Garfield. POI,AR BKAR—ON BRIDGES. {A. P. Proctov.) Park, and this by Douglas Boulevard with Douglas Park. Thesethree latter parks are all in the western part of the city, in succes-sive order from north to south, and some four or five miles from thelake. Other boulevards running south and east from Douglas Parkfinally reach, after a course of several miles, Washington Park, theoldest and best improved of all on the South side. This is sixmiles from the business centre, and directly south of it, so that thevisitor has now encircled the city, starting from Lincoln Park twomiles north of the business centre. At the south end of Washing-ton Park there extends eastward, for a mile, a strip of land 600 feetin width, a part of the park system, called Midway Plaisance. Atits eastern extremity It joins Jackson Park, which lies on the lake
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