Wacker's manual of the plan of Chicago: municipal economyEspecially prepared for study in the schools of Chicago., auspices of the Chicago Plan Commission .. . CHICAGO. Clarendon Beach., .Tens of thousands in the water at Clarendon Beach (1916). Twenty-three thousand bathers havevisited this single beach in one day. What belter argument could possibly be had for the Reclamation ofthe Lake Front for the People? 116 WACKERS MANUAL OF THE PLAN OF CHICAGO CHAPTER XVII. CREATING A CIVICCENTER In becoming the second city of the UnitedStates in population, Chicago has not untilnow taken any account o
Wacker's manual of the plan of Chicago: municipal economyEspecially prepared for study in the schools of Chicago., auspices of the Chicago Plan Commission .. . CHICAGO. Clarendon Beach., .Tens of thousands in the water at Clarendon Beach (1916). Twenty-three thousand bathers havevisited this single beach in one day. What belter argument could possibly be had for the Reclamation ofthe Lake Front for the People? 116 WACKERS MANUAL OF THE PLAN OF CHICAGO CHAPTER XVII. CREATING A CIVICCENTER In becoming the second city of the UnitedStates in population, Chicago has not untilnow taken any account of unity. First in all directions, and the villages extendedtheir streets and settlements toward Chi-cago. Finally Chicago spread out untilthese villages were .swallowed up withinthe city giving up their little local gov-ernments and becoming districts of Chi-cago itself. In this process by which Chicago ab-sorbed its neighboring towns and villages. CHICAGO View, looking west, of the proposed civic center, plaza and buildings, showing it as the center of the system of arteries of circulation and of the surrounding country. [Copyrighted by the Commercial Club.] there was the settlement about Fort Dear-born, then the extension of the village tocover a square mile or so. While this wasin progress at the heart of affairs nearbyfarm centers grew into little governments were established,and in each township a village came intobeing. Chicago grew toward these villages there was no planning for the creation of acenter. Instead of creating a great unifiedcity, therefore, we built up one by group-ing together numerous adjoining good fortune, these towns and villageswere so laid out that for the most part theirstreets blended well with the street sys-tem of Chicago, and so we do not notice, CREATING A CIVIC CENTER 117 in going about the city, that Chicago isreally the result of patching several townstogether. C
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