. Wacker's manual of the plan of Chicago; municipal economy . 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 tow
. Wacker's manual of the plan of Chicago; municipal economy . 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 commercial Club.] ^.^^^ ^^^^^ ^^.j^_ ings devoted to the purposes of the respec-tive governments. Thus there will be struc-tures for the courts, whose character andimportance in our government seem to call d -°-1. CHICAGO. The business center of the city withinthe first circuit boulevard, showing the proposed grandeast-and-west axis and its relation to Grant Park anathe yacht harbor; the railway terminals schemes on thesouth and wesit sides, and the Civic Center. 138 WACKERS MANUAL OF THE PLAN OP CHICAGO for separate and distinct housing decision and action now, this plan for acivic center could be put under way at once,as the government is seeking a site for apostoffice on the West Side, giving us theopportunity of starting construction of thecivic group with a building of has shown us in Chicagothat there is no danger of our undertak-ing too large or extensive plans for publicbuildings. No sooner do we get a publicstructure completed, in fact, than thegrowth of the public business fills it to building, it is already filled to its limitwith the workers in the public as is the civic
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