. Wacker's manual of the plan of Chicago; municipal economy . The Worlds Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1S93. The Court ofHonor, Looking Towards the Peristyle. This View Shows the Effect ofan Orderly Arrangement of Buildings and a Uniform Cornice Line. A PARK SYSTEM FOR CHICAGO 125 CHAPTER XV A PARK SYSTEM FORCHICAGO Next to convenience and orderliness inits street arrangements the most essential have been aptly compared with the lungsof a person, as means by which the city andits people get the stimulus of fresh air sonecessary to normal well-being. The desire of the people for extensiveparks
. Wacker's manual of the plan of Chicago; municipal economy . The Worlds Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1S93. The Court ofHonor, Looking Towards the Peristyle. This View Shows the Effect ofan Orderly Arrangement of Buildings and a Uniform Cornice Line. A PARK SYSTEM FOR CHICAGO 125 CHAPTER XV A PARK SYSTEM FORCHICAGO Next to convenience and orderliness inits street arrangements the most essential have been aptly compared with the lungsof a person, as means by which the city andits people get the stimulus of fresh air sonecessary to normal well-being. The desire of the people for extensiveparks for Chicago has always been mani-fest. When Chicago became a city, in 1837,it chose as its motto Urbs in Horto—a city. CHICAGO. View Looking Soutli Over the Lagoons of tlie Proposed Lalie Front Park for the South Shore.[Copyrighted by the Commercial Club.] thing in a great city is a sufficient park , therefore, Chicago is cutting newstreets and solving her problems of trafficand transportation by that labor, provisionought also to be made for the beautificationof the city and the preservation of publichealth by means of parks. Parks of a city set in a garden, and two years later thepeople set about creating for the city a parksystem which should justify to the worldthat description of the city. At that timehalf a square of land, upon which the PublicLibrary now stands, was all the park areain Chicago. In 1842 Washington Square 126 WACKERS MANUAL OP THE PLAN OP CHICAGO was added, and subsequently Jefferson,Union, Ellis and Vernon Parks came intobeing, mostly through the generosity andpublic spirit of the citizens. In 1869 an agitation was begun to connectthe parks by boulevards, and thus creat
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