. Wacker's manual of the plan of Chicago; municipal economy . The aim of this arrangement istwo-fold: to provide on the one hand directways of reaching the citys future center,and on the other hand to open to the dailyview of a million ormore people andgive architecturalprominence to themagnificent citybuildings planned tohe grouped togetherat the civic buildings tobe placed in the civiccenter naturally fallinto three divisions,\ those for the City of^Chicago holding thej principal place, ac-companied by the; buildings of CookCounty and the Fed-eral Government. Awide square or tri-a
. Wacker's manual of the plan of Chicago; municipal economy . The aim of this arrangement istwo-fold: to provide on the one hand directways of reaching the citys future center,and on the other hand to open to the dailyview of a million ormore people andgive architecturalprominence to themagnificent citybuildings planned tohe grouped togetherat the civic buildings tobe placed in the civiccenter naturally fallinto three divisions,\ those for the City of^Chicago holding thej principal place, ac-companied by the; buildings of CookCounty and the Fed-eral Government. Awide square or tri-angle, includingfrom ten to twentyacres, perhaps, canbe swept of build-ings now existing atthe Congress streetI crossing of Halstedstreet. There, at theend of all the con-verging streets, canbe built the CityHall. In this struc-ture the aim will be,if the idea of thePlan of Chicagodominates the ar-rangement, not only to produce a buildingso stately and magnificent as to indeliblyimpress Chicagos greatness upon the mindof every beholder, but also to have it a. IIHIIIIIIIIi B«3 isa ^^-^ as ;•- tf^siniiiiiiii .i§&!9seiiiiiiiiiii!^iiiieiiisinii ^?i^iiiaii \ If!!! building so high and wide as to stand farout above every other structure, thus mark-ling it as the center of the city from afar. Artists, inspired by the work of the ar-chitects in the crea-tion of the Plan ofChicago, have viedwith each other inattempts to visual-ize for us today thetriumphs of the peo-ple of tomorrow inthe planning andconstruction of thesevast civic suggestionsare that the CityHall, rising from theplain upon whichChicago rests, shouldbe surmounted by agreat dome compar-able to that of cathedral atRome. Upon either sideof the toweringdome of the CityHall, and making uptheir parts of thewhole composition,will be the mainCounty Building andmain Federal Build-ing. There will begrouped with them,after a manner togive the finest archi-tectural effects, va- [Copyrightea by the commerci
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