OLIN + NA 9127 C4 A5w 1919 LIBRARY ANNEX 2 M ^1 Cornell University Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924085155764 CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY ;Miiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiii{ =JlllllllllllilllllllllMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII>llllllllllilllll!llllllllllllllllll 3 1924 085 155 764 Ten Years Work of the Chicago Plan^ Commission ■ Issued from the Headquarters of the CHICAGO PLAN COMMISSION HOTEL SHERMAN APRIL, 1920 =9 ''~^~'**~T?!r!77.iiiniii>iriJilliailIIIIIII!llllllllirillIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllfllllllllk~= 57JIB!!il'i!i'i!iV'm ^ X ' y ^ i-^ Chicago Plan Commission Proceedings of the Nineteenth Meeting of the Chicago Plan Commission, Held in the Italian Room, Hotel Sherman, on April 9th, 1920 Ten Years Work of the Chicago Plan Commission 1909- 1919 A Resume of the Work on the Plan of Chicago Presented by the Executive Committee to and approved by the Chicago Plan Commission in Session April 9, 1920 Issued from the Headquarters of CHICAGO PLAN COMMISSION HOTEL SHERMAN April, IQ20 Chicago Plan Commission Proceedings of the Nineteenth Meeting of the Chicago Plan Com- mission, Held in the Italian Room, Hotel Sherman, on April 9, 1920. Adamowski, Max, Aid. Anderson, A. O., Aid. Bartlett, Frederick H. Bennett, Frank I. Berlin, Robert C. Brown, Everett C. Cervenka, John A. Chamberlin, Henry B. Chap, Ignatius Clark, A. Sheldon Clow, William E. Cohen, Edward Coonley, Henry E. Dasso, Paul Dibelka, James B. Dixon, George W. Donnelley, Thos. E. Ettelson, Samuel A. Faherty, Michael J. Fisher, Albert J., Aid. Forgan, James B. PRESENT: Fowler, W. A. Glackin, Edward J. Glessner, J. J. Hines, Edward Hottinger, Otto G Hultin, N. H. Jackson, George W. Judd, Edward S. Le Tourneux, E. D. Lipps, W. F., Aid. Maypole, Wm. T. Moody, Walter D. Nering, John Nimmons, Geo. C. Novak, Jos. I., Aid. Ochsner, Dr. A. J. Oehman, John S. Olsen, Oscar, H., Aid. Ott, Herman A. Pendarvis, Robt. E. Peterson, Wm. A. Pettibone, Amos Revell, Alexander H. Robinson, Theo. W, Scott, John W. Shanahan, D. S. Shepard, Frank L. Stube, John H. Sultan, Dr. George Thompson, John E. Thome, Charles H. Tinsman, Homer E. Toman, John, Aid. Wacker, Charles H. Watson, O. L., Aid. Wheeler, Harry A. Williams, Dr. J. F. Williams, Thomas Woolley, C. F. Zander, Henry G. Zimmer, Michael — 62 E. H. Bennett, Consultant. The meeting was called to order by Chairman Wacker at 1 :00 P. M. CHAIRMAN CHARLES H. WACKER: I have before me a report which, after giving it mo,st careful consideration, the Execu- tive Committee has requested me to submit for your approval. It is a report of the ten years work of the Chicago Plan Com- mission, from 1909 to 1919, and is as follows: Ten Year Anniversary This is an epoch in the history of the Chicago Plan Commission. It is the anniversary of the work of ten years, during which all its recommendations, excepting the Post Office and River Straightening, have been pro- vided for. C Emerson says that most people must see a house built before they can comprehend the plan. Ten years ago people did not comprehend the Plan of Chicago. Not perceiving its reality, they called it a "picture"' plan and a "talk" plan. 1021 See Index on Page 68. People Have Adopted Plan Object Lessons Appointment of Plan Commission Plan Accom- plishments Today, seeing the Michigan Avenue and Roosevelt Road (Tv^elfth Street) improvements nearing com- pletion, the people have adopted the Plan as their own. No longer does it have the vagueness of unreality. It has become to them a living, vital, tangible thing. Foreseeing this, the w^isdom of the Plan Commis- sion is now apparent in adopting two improvements — Roosevelt Road and Michigan Avenue — and standing tenaciously for their construction. These improve- ments, although incomplete, have served most effective- ly as object lessons. This is conclusively shown in the ever-increasing majorities given Chicago Plan bond issues, and in the larger votes given Plan proposals in the City Council. C Ten years is a long or a short time according to our several viewpoints and the nature of our activities. Ten years time to a man in prison is a lifetime. In the life of a city ten years time is only a milestone. It is ten years since Mayor Fred A. Busse, author- ized by the City Council, appointed the Chicago Plan Commission, on November 1, 1909. AVhen the Plan of Chicago was completed by The Commercial Club, under the direction of Daniel Hudson Burnham, aided by Edward H. Bennett, it was presented to the city with the request that a Commission be appointed to study the Plan and recommend what parts should be carried out. €r These ten years, to use a paradox, have been both a long and a short period — long in the struggle to change city-wide misapprehension to comprehension — short in view of what actually has been accomplished. Today twelve basic features have been provided for by bond issues where necessary, and are either un- der construction or advanced in procedure in the Board of Local Improvements or in the courts. C These are: The Roosevelt Road (Twelfth Street) widening and extension. The Michigan Avenue widening and extension. The West Side passenger and freight terminal plans, including widening Polk and Taylor Street via- ducts; widening Canal Street between Roosevelt Road and Washington Street, and extending it via the two- level Kinzie Street bridge to Orleans Street, connecting with the new Franklin-Orleans Street bridge; and the Monroe Street bridge. 1022 The South Shore Lake Front plans, including the completion of Grant Park, the extension of the Roose- velt Road (Twelfth Street) viaduct to the Field Colum- bian Museum of Natural History; construction of the parkways to the southward; and the South Park Av- enue widening and extension northward to Randolph Street, (making possible an outer drive connection be- tween Grant Park and the Lake Shore Drive at the foot of the Municipal Pier, which project has already been considered favorably by the Lincoln and South Park Boards.) The Illinois Central Railroad terminal rehabilita- tion. The widening of Western Avenue. The widening and opening of Ashland Avenue. The widening and opening of Robey Street. The extension of Ogden Avenue from Union Park to Lincoln Park. The South Water Street widening and two-level connection with Michigan Avenue. The acquisition of 14,254 acres of Forest Preserves by the Forest Preserve Commission. The improvement of the Outer Highway System. This is the sum total during the past ten years. Toward the public cost of these improvements the people have voted $61,510,000 of bonds; the balance of the cost will be provided in the usual manner; the special assessments for the Michigan Avenue and Roosevelt Road (Twelfth Street) improvements have amounted to $8,125,237.89; the railway companies have agreed to spend $162,091,350.00; and the Forest Pre- serve Commission has expended $5,316,762.00. Barring unforseen events, all these projects should be completed within the next five years, excepting the entire electrification of the Illinois Central and the ex- tension of the lake front park plans south of Thirty- ninth Street. Cost of Plan. Projects Time of Completion C All of these improvements are of tremendous benefit to the three sides of the city, but especiall)^ so to the great West Side, where street improvements are imperative. It is a source of great satisfaction to know that all the difificult and intricate problems with which we have been confronted have been successfully solved by our technical department under the direction of Eclward H. Bennett. 1023 Increase in Property Values City Revenue Increase Result of Improvements New York City C . City planning is a profitable investment, both to property owners and to the city. This is clearly shown in the increase in property values and city rev- enue from the Michigan Avenue and Roosevelt Road (Twelfth Street) improvements. Values in the immediate zone of the Michigan Avenue improvement, according to Secretary Frederick M. Bowes of the North Central Association, have in- creased $35,000,000.00, with the improvement unfin- ished. Due to this improvement, $100,000,000.00 of buildings are under construction or planned in this zone. The Roosevelt Road frontage — land and buildings — from Canal Street to Ashland Avenue, according to Court Commissioner Harry Goldstine, was valued at $8,000,000.00 prior to the improvement. Although the improvement is incomplete, this frontage value has increased $2,500,000.00. From the increases to be caused by these two im- provements alone the city will annually receive a rev- enue of $3,575,000.00, if assessed on the valuation of the full increase. Both the property values and the revenues of the city will continue to increase with the completion of these improvements and their ultimate intensive de- velopment. The same results will be obtained from all the other public improvements, not only along the line of the improvement but also in their adjacent districts; i. e., increased property values and building activity and a consequent increased revenue to the city. C The Plan Commission is not a money-spending but a money-earning institution. The efi:ect of Plan of Chicago improvements on the commerce and general prosperity of the city will be most stimulating. Other cities are aggressively competing for the business which logically belongs to Chicago, and our city, in order to maintain its commercial and industrial prestige and safeguard its future, must carry out these public betterments. New York City, according to the Merchants' As- sociation, annually receives $876,000,000.00 — more than twice the cost of the Panama 'Canal — from its 200,000 daily visitors, each spending an estimated low average of $12.00 per day for food and lodging. 1024 The advantages of Chicago are incomparable. It Chicago is the greatest railroad center in the nation, center of the richest territory in the world, and the center of more than half the population of the United States. With the Plan improvements finished, Chicago will be the tourist Mecca; and the money in the cofi^ers of the city will be increased immeasurably, benefiting all our people. Business and labor will be benefited, but the great purpose of these improvements is to promote happiness, comfort, and good public health, thus directly enrich- ing in the highest human way every man, woman and child. Good homes, clean, broad streets, unobstructed sunlight and fresh air are necessary to elevate our moral and physical standards. C The work of the Plan Commission is progressive. No thinking person will say it is ended now that most of the basic features in the Plan are assured. Its value lies as much in preventing bad development as in ac- complishing good development. In twenty-five years our population will l)e 5,000,- 000. Thus will be multiplied conditions of congestion, inadequate streets and transportation and insufficient parks. Realizing this, we must plan adequately for the future and prevent, at all hazards, the recurrence of present unsatisfactory conditions, caused by rapid growth and haphazard development. New improvements will have to be advocated and carried out. In many sections dire need for improve- ment now exists. Problems of public import yet unsolved are: Zoning. Housing. The Civic Center and opening of Congress Street. The River Straightening, and opening Wells, Mar- ket, FrankHn, La Salle and Dearborn Streets through the closed railroad area, and connecting them with Archer Avenue. Opening Thirty-ninth Street. Outer Boulevard Connection between Grant and Lincoln Parks. West Side Post Office. Polk Street widening. A complete study of the street system in the term- inal area between Polk, State and Sixteenth Streets and the river. Outer circuit roadway. 1025 Benefit of Improvements Value of Commission Unsolved Problems other Unsolved Problems Legislative Matters Purpose of Report Recapitulation Attached Post OfiSce Inadequate Facilities Boulevards along drainage canal. Co-ordination of unsubdivided sections with the city. Interspersed with these are matters of lesser im- portance, many of which are engaging the attention of your officers and technical staff. These include: Elevation of State Street to connect with Roose- velt Road (Twelfth Street) viaduct. Opening Seventy-first Street. Opening Indiana Avenue between 115th and 116th Streets. Extending Torrence Avenue. Other matters of importance, concerned with the legislative situation, are: Zoning laws. Greater bonding powers. Excess condemnation. These matters are receiving the attention of our attorneys in the Constitutional Convention. The value of our Commission in such matters was shown in the Spring of 1919 when it had to make the legislative fight for increased bonding power. -tii-5Bs» ^ -l^f^^-^^'' -v-^r-J West Side Passenger Terminals when completed and Post Ofiice Site between the two depots on Canal Street. Citizen's Terminal Plan Committee Railroad Plans In this settlement the city was also aided in a foremost way by the Citizens' Terminal Plan Commit- tee, headed by Alfred L. Baker. This voluntary com- mittee was composed of business men who contributed the money to furnish the city with the expert legal counsel Walter L. Fisher and the expert technical counsel Bion J. Arnold. The negotiations were based on the plans of the Pennsylvania Railroad Lines. This company proposed an elevated freight track structure ending in a ware- house terminal which was to occupy the area needed for the West Side civic center plans in the Plan of Chi- cago. 1058 41 This was in the pathway o^ the opening of Con- gress Street which is the leading east-and-west axis in the Plan. Unimproved Pennsylvania freight terminal site. On May 21, 1913, the Plan Commission authorized the officers and technical staff to submit their plans to the Council Committee on Railway Terminals. New Pennsylvania freight terminal now completed. The officers and technical staff under the direction of our Consultant E. H. Bennett, opposed this freight encroachment, and the location of the passenger term- inal at the intersection of Jackson Boulevard and Canal Street. 1059 Position of Plan Officials 42 Contract Ordinances Concessions River Straightening Railway Terminal Commission Plan Improvements To Be Made At Railroad Expense The officers and* technical staff insisted that the passenger station should be located on Roosevelt Road (Twelfth Street) at Canal Street. Of seventeen recommendations this alone was de- feated. The contract ordinances provided that the work should be finished in five years or in 1919, but on ac- count of the war this was extended three years, or un- til 1922. During the City Council hearings, the officers and technical staff were invited to submit their arguments on May 24, 1913. At this hearing Chairman Charles H. Wacker of the Plan Commission presented the concessions the city should demand from the railroads and recom- mended the river straightening and the opening of Market, Franklin, Wells, La Salle and Dearborn Streets through the closed railroad area. The problem of straightening the river and open- ing these streets, bound up as they are in the terminal situation, showed the necessity for an expert body to study the whole question of the remaining terminals on the South Side. It was generally understood the plan of the Illinois Central Railroad Company would be taken care of in the lake front settlement. There followed the appointment May 25, 1914, of the Railway Terminal Commission by Mayor Carter H. Harrison as authorized by the City Council March 23, 1914. The terminal plans of the railway companies em- braced the construction of the Union Station, the Penn- sylvania freight terminal and warehouse building (completed) and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the Chicago & Alton freight houses. Projects in the Plan of Chicago which the com- panies are obligated to complete at their own expense are: 1. Construction of a connection between Canal Street and Orleans Street, connecting the North and West Sides of the city, via the two-level Kinzie Street bridge. 2. Widening Canal Street from 80 feet to 100 feet from Washington Street to Roosevelt Road. 3. Grading Canal Street to as uniform a level as practicable. 4. Opening Monroe Street as a through east- and-west street, including viaduct and bridge approach. 1060 47sl.Vr 51. CAKlLINE 43KaST CAHlUNE - INDIANA AVE TH f. I iCALE OF A\ILB.« Lake Front Park, Harbor and Terminal De-v^elopment 43 5. Present and future widening of all east-and- west viaducts from Lake Street to Roosevelt Road in- clusive. 6. Building Roosevelt Road viaduct 118 feet wide from Canal Street to the west bank of the river. 7. Provision for the viaduct on Congress Street across the tracks when the city opens that street from Franklin Street to the river. 8. Keeping the viaduct roadways level with the river bridges. 9. Opening 14th Street as an east-and-west street. 10. street. 11. 12. Opening 16th Street as an east-and-west Widening the viaduct on 18th Street. Widening the viaduct on Polk Street from 40 feet to 80 feet. 13. Widening the Taylor Street viaduct from 40 to 80 feet. 14. Providing space on the four sides of the head- house for loading and unloading passengers without encroachment on the present street area. 15. The total abandonment of the original freight plans of the Pennsylvania Railroad, which action pre- served the Plan of Chicago, and makes possible the West Side diagonal street system. 16. The railroad companies also agreed to co- operate in the river straightening from Polk to 16th Street. The original cost to the railroad companies was estimated to be $60,000,000.00— $50,000,000.00 for the passenger station plans and plan improvements and $10,000,000.00 for freight stations. This it is estimated will be $75,000,000.00 on account of increased cost of material and labor. C The plans for the improvement of the lake front from Grant Park to Jackson Park require the filling of the submerged area the entire distance of five miles. These are co-ordinated with the Illinois Central Rail- road terminal plans. The company has been granted the privilege of filling a certain submerged area adja- cent to its present right of way, to enable it to straigh- ten and expand the approach to its new terminal. There will be 1,138 acres of new parks, including all the usual recreational facilities. The plans include the Field Columbian T\Tuseum, now located on made ground at the foot of Roosevelt 1061 Cost Lake Front Park and Dljnois Central Terminal Plans Area of New Park A4 ]\-(iad (Twelilh Slrcct ), and the Stadium to the south- ward thereof. Park Row buildings and Old Illinois Central Station to be razed and land made a part of Grant Park. The parks are to be in two sections, an inner and an outer one. The shore park adjacent to the Illinois Central risdit-of-way will include the area around the •'.liL|i||....M,. WMl Roosevelt Road east of Micbigan Avenue, new Illinois Central passenger terminal. Field Columbian Museum and Stadium. This shows Grant Park extended south to Roosevelt Road. Field Columbian Museum, and will vary in width from approximately 350 to 750 feet along the entire shore line from Grant Park at Roosevelt Road to Jackson Park at 67th Street. 1062 45 The outer park is to extend the entire length and will vary in width from 800 to 2,500 feet. On the inner or shore parkway there will be sev- eral bathing beaches and provision has been made for additional bathing beaches on the lakeward side of the outer fall. Between these two parkways there will be a water- course five miles long and six hundred feet wide. This protected riverway will afford opportunity for regattas, rowing, boating, swimming, skating, and the like. It will be a fresh body of water, constantly circulating by the frequent openings in the outer park and at both ends. The fill is to be made partly by the use of sand from the bed of the lake and partly of waste material, such as excavation material, cinders and so forth. 1,000,000 cubic yards per year of this material is now available and this amount will increase as time goes on, particularly when a transportation subway is con- structed. The plans include a commercial harbor reservation between 16th and 47th Streets, as decreed by the United States War Department. A yacht harbor is provided, protected by a break water, between the Municipal Pier at Grand Avenvie and 16th Street. Two motorboat racing courses are provided within the government breakwater, which is to be extended southward to Jackson Park. Eight direct east-and-west street car lines will connect the new park area with the West Side. The parks will be accessible from all sections of the city for a single carfare. The plans provide for the completion of Grant Park (200 acres in the heart of the city) with all the usual park facilities. They include the widening of South Park Avenue from 66 feet to 150 feet from 35th to 22nd Street to extend Grand Boulevard through the new park to Ran- dolph Street. This will afford a new rapid trafficway between the North and the South Sides avoiding the congested loop district, and will greatly relieve the crowded conditions on Michigan Avenue. In exchange for the riparian rights of the Illinois Central Railroad Company the South Park Commis- sioners permitted the company, at its own expense, to 1063 Bathingr Beaches Watercourse Commercial Harbor Motorboat Racing Courses Street-car Lines What Plans Provide For Railroad Benefit 46 Railroad Concessions fill the submerged area necessary to straighten and ex- pand its right-of-way. The company agreed to the following: To electrify its facilities within a certain time. To give certain land to extend Grant Park across Park Row to the new 118 foot wide Roosevelt Road (Twelfth Street) viaduct and to extend the viaduct from Michigan Avenue to the Field Columbian Mu- seum and the lake. Track depression; and restrictions of the use of their newly acquired right of way. Widening Indiana Avenue to 100 feet between 16th Street and Roosevelt Road. A typical view of the five mile stretch of lake front parks, under construction,' showing the 600 foot wide watercourse. Agreement Ordinance Erection of the passenger station east of Indiana Avenue to conform architecturally to the adjacent Field Columbian Museum. Extension without compensation to the company of streets, viaducts, and tunnel across its right of way into the new park. This agreement between the Illinois Central Rail- road Company and the South Park Commissioners was adjudicated and -confirmed in the Circuit Court July 8. 1912. After ten years of negotiation between the City, the South Park Commissioners and the Illinois Central 1064 47 Railroad Company, an ordinance was passed by the City Council July 21, 1919, by a vote of 66 to 2, which provides for this lake front and Illinois Central de- velopment. This ordinance was accepted by the railroad com- pany February 18, 1920, certain amendments having been incorporated by the City Council to meet the de- mands of the War Department. The permit from the War Department necessary to enable the South Park Commissioners to make the park fill was signed by Secretary of War Newton D. Baker February 20, 1920. The chronology of the ten years negotiation fol- lows : Negotiations with the Illinois Central Railroad Company instituted by the Plan Committee of The Commercial Club, Edward B. Butler, Chairman, and later, including a special citizens' committee, Lessing Rosenthal, Chairman, finally resulting in the agree- ment between the South Park Commissioners and the railroad company, ratified by the Circuit Court. January 25 — Appointment of the Lake Shore Re- clamation Commission by Mayor Fred A. Busse at the request of the City Council on order introduced by Alderman Theodore K. Long, for the institution of necessary proceedings to secure title and possession to the lake shore for the city or the park board. December 11 — Contract agreed to between the South Park Commissioners and the Illinois Central Railroad Company; ordinance introduced in the City Council approving and confirming this contract. December 23 — Commencement of public hearings in the City Council Committee on Harbors, Wharves and Bridges. Convening of a special session of the State Legis- lature and the adoption of a measure for the condem- nation of riparian rights for park purposes. March 30 — Present contract between South Park Commissioners and Illinois Central Railroad Company entered into, amended by a supplemental agreement (June 26) and ratified in the Circuit Court July 8, 1912. November 4 — South Park Commissioners made application to the War Department for the establish- ment of harbor lines and for three separate permits to fill submerged areas as follows: 1. Opposite Grant Park 1065 Acceptances War Depart- ment Permit 1909 Negotiations Started 1910 Lake Shore Reclamation Commission 1911 Original Contract Public Hearings Started 1912 State Law Present Contract Government Permit Requested Field Museum Permit 1913 Washington Delegation from Randolph Street south to Roosevelt Road. 2. From Roosevelt Road south to 67th Street. 3. From 95th Street south to 102nd Street. October 18 — War Department granted permit for building as much of the breakwater and necessary fill- ing of submerged lands as would be required for the erection of the Field Columbian Museum between Roosevelt Road and 16th Street. November 20 — Delegation headed by Mayor Car- ter H. Harrison appeared before the Secretary of War in Washington in support of the lake front plan. From a painting by F. R. Harfjer for tlie Chicago Trust Co. New Field Columbian Museum of Natural History. Government Permit 1914 Mann BiU Harmonized Plan December 18 — Secretary of War L. M. Garrison declared the War Department did not have authority to grant the general request inasmuch as it was not approved by a city ordinance, and his department could not give the matter further consideration until such ordinance had been passed and other questions con- served pertaining to the protection of the jurisdiction of the government over navigable waters. January 17 — Bill introduced in Congress by Rep- resentative James R. Mann authorizing the Secretary of War to grant permits requested by South Park Com- missioners. November 16 — Council Committee on Harbors, Wharves and Bridges appointed a sub-committee to take up the whole lake front question to the end of harmonizing the park and harbor needs of Chicago. 1066 49 December 23 — Council sub-committee received and approved the report on the harmonized plan. January 8 — Re-affirmation of the lake front plans by the Chicago Plan Commission. January 3 — Approval by the City Council Com- mittee on Harbors, Wharves and Bridges of the ordin- ance covering the lake front plans. March 3 — Ordinance rejected by the Illinois Cen- tral Company. The company was then asked to sub- mit definite plans for its vast terminal scheme. September 20 — Illinois Central Railroad Company submitted definite terminal plans to City Council Com- mittee on Railway Terminals. The war precluded further negotiations until 1919. Meanwhile the technical staffs of the Railway Term- inal Commission, the Illinois Central Railroad Com- pany and the Plan Commission perfected the details of the new ordinance. January — The Council Railway Terminal Com- mittee resumed hearings and consideration of the or- dinance. July 21 — The Lake Front-Illinois Central ordin- ance, by a vote of 66 to 2, was passed by the City Council, granting the railroad company and the park board six months within which to accept it. This grant was later extended thirty days. January 19 — South Park Commissioners accepted ordinance and the amendments (February 3). February 18 — The Illinois Central Railroad Com- pany accepted the ordinance. February 20 — Secretary of War Newton D. Baker signed the permit establishing a harbor line and giving the South Park Commissioners the right to carry out the park plans. 1915 Commission Action 1916 Original Ordinance Ordinance Rejected Illinois Central Ordinance War Delay 1919 Hearings Resumed Ordinance Passed 1920 Park Board Acceptance Company Acceptance Government Permit Granted 1067 50 Bond Issue Bond Vote Early State Laws Chicago Harbor Commission Original Burnham Suggestion Commercial and Merchants' Club Meeting Detailed History Illinois Central Cost Time Limits Park Plans Three Tear Program February 24 — $20,000,000.00 of bonds were ap- proved at the city election by the voters in the South Park District v^ith which to start the work on the lake front plans, and for general park and boulevard work in the district. The bond proposals were approved by majorities varying from 32,568 to 37,645 or a vote of 2^ to 1. Back of these ten years of negotiation laws were enacted by the State Legislature in 1903 and in 1907 authorizing the South Park Commissioners to reclaim the submerged area along the lake front between Grant and Jackson Parks. In 1909 the report of the Chicago Harbor Com- mission was issued, approving the lake front plans. Back of this was the original suggestion of Dan- iel Hudson Burnham at the close of the World's Fair to improve the south shore lake front. At the joint meeting of The Commercial Club and the Merchants' Club March 18, 1905, the subject was "What Shall be Done with the Lake Front?" A detailed history of the lake front negotiations up to 1915 was printed in the proceedings of the Chi- cago Plan Commission of January 8, 1915. The cost of the Illinois Central terminal develop- ment, including electrification and the construction of its main and sub-stations, is $85,000,000.00. The ordinance carries certain time limits as fol- lows: Seven years for the electrification of the suburban service, including two years for depressing the tracks. Ten years for electrifying the freight service north of Roosevelt Road. Fifteen years for electrifying freight service south of that point. Twenty years for electrifying through passenger service. The park plans, including Grant Park and the sub- merged area between Grant and Jackson Parks, will require ten years to complete. Bonds available cover a three year period of work. This includes: Completion of Grant Park. Completion of fill in vicinity of Field Columbian Museum and erection of Stadium. Breakwater and bulkhead construction and shore fill to 39th Street. 1068 51 Widening South Park Avenue and its extension north through the new park. Acquiring remaining land necessary for Grant Park extension to Roosevelt Road and extension of that thoroughfare to the Field Columbian Museum. C The Ogden Avenue improvement was recom- Ogden Avenue mended by the Plan Commission December 14, 1916. (II ir\ «|M1 t\Tt\Sill\ t K \u') PI ^N CtlMMISSlON 1 -^li '■M '\ J ^^ ^— ^ 1 u ^ r :^^^\^\ h ' - .'T rii ' , ~T*~' i >'' ■' 'VF.. Flan of Ogrden Avenue diagonal extension, 2.7 miles longr, between Union and Lincoln Parks. This diagonal thoroughfare will be an entirely new Description street, 108 feet wide and 2.7 miles long, running northeast from Union Park to Lincoln Park through an area of low property values and poor development. It will require three subways and one viaduct across railroad tracks and over Goose Island, and a new bridge across the north branch of the river. Ogden Avenue, as it exists today, is an important radial thoroughfare, leading from Union Park south- west past the city limits through Riverside and Naper- 1069 52 Purpose Value Ordinance Zone of Assessment Bond Issue South Water Street Purpose ville, connecting with the Plainfield and Joliet high- ways. Its extension northeast from Union Park will pro- vide a short and direct connection between the North and West Sides of the city and will serve as a necessary connection between industrial plants and the homes of the industrial population. It will directly benefit more than a quarter of a million people and give a direct means of reaching Lincoln Park, the Municipal Pier and Lake Michigan to an industrial population, which, at present, is not adequately served with recreational facilities. Besides facilitating traffic, it will increase proper- ty values by restoring to economic use areas now im- perfectly developed, thus increasing the revenue of the city and its bond issuing capacity. During 1917, an order was introduced in the City Council asking that the improvement of Ogden Avenue be postponed until after the war, and it was necessary for Chairman Charles H. Wacker to appear before the City Council Committee on Home Defense in advocacy of proceeding with the preliminaries without delay. The ordinance for the improvement was passed by the City Council February 18, 1919, by a vote of 45 to 8. The petition of the city was filed in court and the court commissioners appointed March 4, 1919. The zone of assessment covers nine square miles, averaging half a mile on each side of and parallel to Ogden Avenue from Belmont Avenue on the north to the city limits on the south at 29th Street. A bond issue of $5,400,000.00 for the public cost was approved at the election of November 4, 1919, by a vote of 96,948. C On November 23, 1917, the Plan Commission rec- ommended the reclamation of South Water Street as a public thoroughfare. The reasons for this improvement are: It will reduce the high cost of living. It will become the second most important distrib- utor of traffic. It will enable vehicles between the North and West and Southwest Sides to avoid loop congestion. It will facilitate traffic on the important east-and- west streets north and south of the river by providing a new through two-level east-and-west traffic artery, the lower level unobstructed by cross traffic. 1070 plan for Chicago River Improvement, It will lirino- State, Dearborn, Clark and Wells Streets, into their full usefulness, now i^'reatlv impaired by produce market usage. It will provide an uninterrupted connection be- tween the Illinois Central freight yards and the West Side warehouse and terminal districts. It will be the first step in the Plan of Chicago to make the banks of the Chicago River profitable, use- ful and attractive. It will increase property values throughout a con- siderable area and add to the annual revenue of the city. It will make possible an annual saving of $6,540,- 000.00 through the removal of the produce market to an adequate and properly located terminal site. This yearly saving is composed of the following- items : Waste of foodstuffs $2,520,000.00 Cost of handling foodstufifs... 1,624,800.00 Haulage saving to commer- cial interests' 563,000.00 Saving in time by reduced street trafi^c delays 1 ,600,000.00 Annual rental revenue 232,200.00 Total $6,540,000.00 1071 Annual Saving South Water Street Produce Market. Description Thg ng^ South Water Street will be 135 feet wide on the lower surface and 110 feet on the upper level in place of 80 feet as at present. It will extend from the present south line of South Water and River Streets to the edge of the river be- tween Michigan Avenue and Market Street. At the east end the upper and lower levels of South Water Street will fit in with the upper and lower levels of Michigan Avenue and on the west with the present grade at Market and Lake Streets. Between these points the upper level will conform to the height of the new and proposed bridges across the river as fixed by the Federal authorities. The Plan of South Water Street two-level improvement, showing its connection with the upper and lower levels of Michigan Avenue. 1072 lower level will provide splendid dockage space twenty five feet wide and a mile lone'. South Water Street showing' the dilapidated buildings along the river front, to he removed. The City Council on December 15, 1919, by a vote Ordinance of 64 to 0, passed an ordinance providing for the widen- ing of South Water and River Streets. An ordinance South "Water Street improvement, -when completed, showing old buildings removed and two-level development along: the river front between Michigan Avenue and Market Street, for the upper level construction will have to be passed before the court trial can be started. An analysis of the technical features of the origin- al South Water Street plan, prepared by our technical 107,3 56 Bond Issue West Side Streets Need For Through Streets Connections department, has been made by our special Engineer, J. R. Bibbins, of the Arnold Company. This included a survey of local conditions surrounding the project, and recommendations as to the specific technical feat- ures to be embodied. The plan is now approved as to its important controlling features by Engineer J. R. Bib- bins, C. D. Hill, Engineer of the Board of Local Im- provements, Thomas G. Pihlfeldt, City Engineer of Bridges, Hugh Young, City Bridge Designing Engin- eer, Edward J. Noonan, Engineer, Chicago Railway Terminal Commission, and our Consultant, E. H. Ben- nett. This report is now before the Board of Local Im- provements with a request from the Plan Commission that an ordinance be drawn. A bond issue of $3,800,000.00 for the public cost was voted at the election of November 4, 1919, by a majority of 99,058. C Of the thirteen north-and-south section and half- section line streets in Chicago, in the seven miles be- tween the loop and the western city limits, only two are continuous through thoroughfares. The need for through street improvements on the West Side is evident in the lack of through north-and- south streets. The three streets proposed for improvement — Western Avenue, Ashland Avenue and Robey Street — will become effective arteries, serving a large and con- stantly increasing population and giving better service between industrial zones and the homes of industrial workers, as they pass alternately through five indus- trial and six residential areas. They are to be made great through trunk lines capable of carrying street traffic and rapid transit car- lines. At both ends these streets connect with important outlying thoroughfares. In their central parts between the two branches of the Chicago River they will effec- tively unite the diagonal arteries of the city, facilitating traffic thereon. They will provide adequate roadways giving easy movement to all kinds of traffic, and freeing surface car lines, motor trucks and other vehicles from inter- ference with each other. As with all other Plan of Chicago improvements, large increases in property values will result, with a consequent increase in the revenues of the city. 1074 57 Western Avenue C The Western Avenue widening was recommended by the Commission February 1, 1918. Western Avenue varies in width at 18 different places X J^A r ^° ^"^^ ^^^*- ^^ ^^ *° ^^ "^^^^ ^ minimum width of 100 feet from city limits to city limits. The improvement of Western Avenue is covered by several city ordinances, each dealing with a section. The ordinance for widening the street between Ordinances Howard Avenue (the northern city limits) and Law- rence Avenue was passed by the City Council Julv 21, 1919, by a vote of 64 to 0. Three ordinances between West 68th and West 107th Streets were passed by the City Council Novem- ber 24, 1919, by a vote of 66 to 0. An ordinance covering the area between Lawrence Avenue and West 31st Street was passed by the City Council December 1, 1919, by a vote of 69 to 0. The balance of the widening does not require con- demnation ordinances, as it is within the power of the city to secure the needed width at the time the street is dedicated for public use. The case will be brought to trial at as early a date as may be possible. A $2,400,000.00 bond issue for the public cost was Bond issue approved at the election of November 4, 1919, by a vote of 103,483. C The Ashland Avenue widening was recommended Ashland Avenue by the Commission December 20, 1918. Ashland Avenue is not open at four places and varies in width from 42 to 100 feet in 28 different local- ities. It is to be opened where it is now closed and made not less than 100 feet wide all the way through. A bond issue of $5,800,000.00 for the public cost was approved by the voters at the election of November 4, 1919, by a majority of 92,886. C The Robey Street widening was recommended by the Commission December 20, 1918. Robey Street is closed in nine places and varies m width from 30 to 100 feet in nineteen places. It is to be opened where closed and made not less than 84 feet from the northern to the southern city limits. A bond issue of $9,200,000.00 for the public cost was authorized at the election of November 4, 1919, by a vote of 92,298. C The forest preserves are a part of the Plan of Chicago, and the areas acquired fall within its recom- 1075 Robey Street Forest Preserves mendations, but the work of acquiring these preserves has been distinctively within the province of the Board of Forest Preserve Commissioners of Cook County. ^^K!9 ^ ^k. ,,^ riinmiini '••■•, '•• . ■ A "~^^OT T^.;' ^^^ •■^pg JBH • '■ ^'t^ "1, ^ M 1^ A '"^ j^^9:-i ^py^ssmfiWi .•"p^^^v-r;^ 'y\ ■ ')!>;flE| ^m^^:'.: -"'^^AuMim #-^ -ijl^^ ii '■' - in ■■'■■■ '■y.'"'-\ H Hpv '1 V:'- ',./:' M M '^:^^'-^ ■>-' \ ' ' ■ :i ""^^ ^■^.r ^ f^^lM^^mS^ li f 'K' i,^ ^"'■■^a^' "■* ' .•• «',.^- ■[:<%*.. ' E3*f^ ^^^P\fflH m ■g~»^8?i««C ^ a^ ^HoM^^^AKaMk^i .^^ ^J^^5Ss8r«i« mm gmf~> >i. ^;^j^/^^ V -Tl'- nMlM»g«frifc.C '''y'^^"' ^ w^^ m '^■'-■^■m. S Forest Preserves. A typical view in one of the splendid outer parks. The part of the Plan Commission has been that of helping to secure the state enactment and of presenting Forest Preserves, A bit of woodland in one of the forest preserves surrounding Chicago. continuously to the public the need for forest preserves and the benefits to be derived therefrom. Chairman 1076 59 Charles H. W'acker is a memlxT of the Plan Committee of the Forest Preserve Commission. The State Legislature, in June, 1913, passed an enabling act authorizing forest preserve commissions within counties in Illinois, and outlining their powers and duties. Under this act the Cook County Board of Forest Preserve Commissioners was created on February 11, 1915. The first forest preserve was purchased in Palos Park, August 3 ,1916. state Law ^^^^^^QR^^^^^^^^'i^^' ~ .- Forest Preserves. A view along the Desplaines River. Up to March 1, 1920, 14,254 acres had been ac- quired. During March the Commissioners recommended the purchase of 2,000 acres more or less in the Skokie Valley, if they can be secured at a reasonable price. Thus forest preserve parks have been established equit- ably in and around the city on all sides in every part of Cook County. Five thousand additional acres are recommended for purchase, of a total of 35,000 available. The worth of forest preserves to a commanity is so well established as to scarcely require mention here. The humanitarian and commercial value or these coun- try playgrounds is beyond computation. Th.eir benefit will mount ever-increasingly as Chicago continues to add to its population. 1077 Area Acquired Benefits 60 Cost Exterior Highway System First Circuit Second Circuit Third Circuit Radial Roads Paving Bond Issue Program The eminently satisfactory manner in which the Forest Preserve Commissioners of Cook County have acquired these preserves is an outstanding feature of public service well performed. The cost of the 14,254 acres alreadv acquired was $5,316,762.00. C The exterior highway system in the Plan of Chi- cago provides for the connection and improvement of the highways surrounding the city. There are three encircling highway circuits sur- rounding Chicago, complete with the exception of about five per cent, where connections will have to be made. The first circuit connects Winnetka, the northern lake terminal, with La Grange, Hinsdale, Blue Island and Orland, ending with Roby on the lake at the south. The second circuit starts with Waukegan on the lake to the north, connecting that city with Liberty- ville. Lake Zurich, Elgin, Geneva, Aurora, Joliet, Chi- cago Heights, ending- with Gary on the lake at the south. Circuit No. 3 is also a lake terminal at Kenosha on the north, and embraces Woodstock, Genoa, Sycamore, Morris, Momence, Kankakee and La Porte, finding its southern outlet again on the lake at Michigan City. Radial roads extend outward from Chicago in every direction, connecting the city with these several circuits, with the forest preserves, and with the sur- rounding suburban towns. In the exterior highway zone, during the past ten years, two hundred miles of roads have been paved at a cost of $3,000,000.00. At the election November 4, 1919, a $5,000,000.00 good roads bond issue was voted bv a majoritv of 59,112. The present road program contemplates paving 165 miles of roads. As much of this work will be done as the $5,000,000.00 bond issue will cover. To date the Department of Highways of Cook County has not created any new roads, nor widened any existing road. The new program provides for short cut-offs and straightening jogs in roads to be paved. The scheme generally fits in with the Chicago Plan scheme for outer highways, but in addition provides for the paving of some secondary roads. 1078 61 Only one new road is contemplated. This will parallel the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad throtigh Park Ridge and Palatine to Barrington, about twenty miles. The principal radials paved since 1913 are: Number of Miles Name of Road Beyond City Limits Milwaukee and Waukegan Road 10 Milwaukee Avenue 13 Lincoln Avenue to Morton Grove 5 Ballard and Rand Roads to Lake Zurich 14 Higgins Road to Dundee 25 Roosevelt Road 5 Ogden Avenue to Lyons 5 Archer Avenue to Joliet 20 Western Avenue to Chicago Heights 16 Halsted Street to AVestern Avenue 6 Radial Roads Paved ciiic\c,o ri \N co-niisioN CHICAGO C.(\II<\1 DI\C.i'\\l 01 r.MEHlOK I IIC.II\\\> S I Vine I IV, WD IMDIATIM, I HOM rm- C.I II i%-]>jn Exterior Highway System in the Plan of Chicago, showing three circuits, diagonals and their relationship to the forest preserve system 1079 62 Circuit Roads Paved The circuits generally recjuire extensions and new road rights-of-way. However, pavements have been laid on many roads which will form parts of circuits when the new connecting roads are cut through. The roads which are parts of the circuits, and which have been paved, are : Number of Miles Name of Road Outside City Limits Dempster Street 6 DesPlaines River Road — North Part 1 1 South Part 6 Kean Avenue 5 95th Street 8 Lincoln Highway 13 LIomewood-Lansing Road 7 All road improvements are being carried out to co- ordinate with construction programs of adjoining coun- ties. More than 53,000,000 people, half the population of the United States, reside "within the circle — 500 miles from Chicago, the Great Central Market — center of 100,000 miles of railway, center of population, center of natural resources, center of fine arts, sciences and education and center of city planning. In General c Chicago today stands at the threshold of a great future. Set in the center of the largest and richest ter- ritory on earth, it is a city where commerce flows to and fro with an ease and economy unmatched by any other city. lOSO 63 With unlimited room for growth and unlimited supplies of building materials, all forces are working to promote its interests and increase its commerce. Problems of fundamental importance are con- cerned with safeguarding the public health, relieving congestion in the crowded districts, adequate provision for healthful recreation, economic handling and distrib- ution of foodstuffs, and cheap and easy means of trans- portation. Scores of millions of dollars will be saved by prop- erly building today, so that the future will not be a chapter of wasteful destruction in rebuilding to repair the mistakes of present day shortsightedness. Investments in public betterments cannot be re- garded as expenditures. They are economies. The expenditures of today are the economies of tomorrow. The cost of public playgrounds, lake front parks, bathing beaches, forest preserves, and similar recrea- tional features for the benefit of all our people, drops into insignificance when compared with the priceless value of safeguarding the health of our men, women and children, and creating conditions which will in- crease happiness, elevate morals, and produce better Orderliness is one of the best investments a city can make, but the appeal of the Chicago Plan is by no means entirely a commercial appeal. Tt is a human appeal, a moral appeal, an appeal to make Chicago bet- ter, not for the money that is in it, but for the sake of the higher mental, moral and physical people that a perfectly arranged city will produce. Problems To Be Solved Value of City Planning The Plan of Chicago is not a panacea for all the civic ills that beset our city. It aims simply at the physical development of Chicago for the good of not one class of people or of one section of the city, but for the good of all Chicagoans — for the good of all Chicago. No other city of modern times has been given a plan so comprehensive — one that proposes so many economic, hygienic, sociological, commercial and hu- manitarian benefits — and one so thoroughly calculated to meet the needs of a vast and growing populace. The ten years work of the Chicago Plan Commis- sion upon the Plan has been an effort to assist Chicago to fulfill its ambition to be the best, most orderly, healthful, convenient and attractive city in America. 1081 What the Plan Is The Great Purpose Chicago Plan Commission Room F, Hotel Sherman TELEPHONE FRANKLIN 2120-LOCAL 125 ROSTER OF MEMBERS OFPKKRS Mayor William Hale Thompson Honorary President ex-offlcio Charles H. Wacker Chairman Frank I. Bennett Vioe-Chairman Walter D. Moody Managing Director Bu.nene S. Taylor Office Manager B. H. Bennett Consultant EXECl-TIVB COMMITTEE Charles H. Wacker, Chairman Frank I. Bennett, Vice-Chairma>n Walter D. Moody, Managing Directer A. C. Bartlett James Simpson Edward B. Butler Albert J. Fisher, Aid. John F. Smulslci Clyde M. Carr Joy Morton Charles H. Thorne John J. Cou^hlin, vUd. Wm. N. Pelouze Harry A. Wheelor Frt'deric .V. Delano John PoAvers, Aid. Walter H. Wilson John v. Farwoll .Julius Kosenwald Michael Zimmer Daniel ,J. SchLiyl(.'r ADAMOWSKI, MAX, ALD. 2410 Fullerton Ave. AMBERG, WALTER ARNOLD 1116, 29 S. La Salle St. ANDERSON, ALBERT O., ALD. 2435 N. Lowell Ave. ARMOUR, J. OGDEN 137 S. La S'alle St. AUSTRIAN, ALFRED S. 76 W. Monroe St. BAKER, ALFRED L. 141 S. La Salle St. BAMBAS, JAMES F. 2311 S. Trumbull Ave. BANCROFT. EDGAR A. 1300, 606 S. Michigan Ave. BARDONSKI, V. 1256 Noble St. BARR, ALFRED E. President, Library Board, 10 So. La Salle St. BARTLETT, A. C. State St. Bridge. BARTLETT, FREDERICK H. 69 E. Washington St. BAULBR. JOHN H. ALD. 515 W. North Ave. BEIDLER, FRANCIS 20 W. Jackson Blvd. BEIDLER, GEORGE 1302. 19 So. La Salle St. BENNETT, FRANK I. Director of Public Works and Buildings, Springfield, 111. BERLIN, ROBERT C. 19 S. La Salle St. BILLINGS, DR. PRANK 242 B. Walton Place. BINYON, LEWIS D. 304 Chamber of Commerce Building. BOEHM, JOHN J. 1901 S. Halsted St. BOND, WILLIAM A. 25 N. Dearborn St. BRADLEY, JOHN J. 4709 Halsted St. BROOKS, ROBERT E. L. 9904 Ewing Ave. BROWN, EVERETT C. 57-59 Exchange Bldg. BUDINGER JOHN 2449 Wentworth Ave. BUDLONG, JOSEPH J. 5224 Lincoln St. BUTLER, ED"WARD B. Randolph Bridge. BYRNE, THOS. F., ALD. 1534 W. 67th St. CAMPBELL, DANIEL A. 5646 Sheridan Road. CAPITAIN, HENRY D., ALD. 184 W. Lake St. CARLILE. WM. BUFORD Postmaster 358 Federal Bldg. CARPENTER, BENJAMIN 436 Wells St. CARR, CLYDE M. 2558 W. 16th St. CARRY, EDWARD F. 707 Railway Exchange Bldg. CBRVENKA, JOHN A. 2438 So. Lawndale Ave. CHAMBERLIN, HENRY BARRETT 928 Hearst Bldg. CHAP. IGNATIUS. 555 W. 31st St. CLARK, A. SHELDON Conway Bldg. CLARKSON, RALPH 410 S. Michigan Ave. CLOIDT, PRANK X. 175 W. Jackson Blvd. CLOW, WILLIAM B. 534 So. Franklin St. COHEN, EDWARD 4555 Grand Blvd. COMBS, P. S. City Engineer, City Hall. CONNERY, J. T. 1804 McCormick Bldg. CONROY, JOHN J, 5511 Center Ave. COONLBY, HENRY K. 11 So. La S'alle St. COUGHLIN, JOHN J., ALD. 17 N. La Salle St. CROWE, ALBERT J. 513 Chamber of Commerce Bldg. CUNBO, LAWRENCE 1350 La Salle Ave. DASSO, PAUL 814 N. Harding Ave. DAVIS, ABEL 6 9 W. Washington St. DAVIS, EDWIN S., Pres., Board of Education, Tribune Bldg. DAWES, CHARLES G. 125 W. Monroe St. DBPRBBS, JOSEPH H. Hotel Windermere. DELANO. FREDERIC A. Room 294 Treasury Bldg., Washington, D. C. 1082 65 DERING, JACKSON K. 332 So. Michigan Ave. DIBBLKA. JAMES B. 2743 W. 22nd St. DIXON, GEORGE W. 425 S. Wells St. DONNELLEY. THOMAS E. 731 Plymouth Court. DOWNEY, JOSEPH 30 N. La Salle St. DUNBAR. THOMAS 820 Pullman Bldg. DUNNE, EDWARD F. Ill W. Washington St. DWEN, ROBERT G. 3736 Ellis Ave. ECKHART, BERNARD A. 1300 Carroll Ave. ECKHART, JOHN W. 311 W. Carpenter St. ETTEDSON, SAMUEL A. Corporation Counsel, City Hall. FAHERTY, MICHAEL J. Presidtnt, Board of Local Improvements. City Hall. FARLEY, EDWARD P. 1501 Railway Exchange. FARWELL, JOHN V. 102 S. Market St. FIELD, E. C. 509 W. 61st Place, FIELD, STANLEY 219 W. Adams St. FINN, JOHN C. 9464 Cottage Grove Ave. FINUCANE, THOMAS J. 2912 Loomis St. FISHER, ALBERT J., ALD. 7157 Yale Ave. FISHER, WALTER L. 134 S. La Salle St. FITZMORRIS, CHARLES C. Private Secretary to the Mayor. City Hall. FOREMAN, MILTON J. 38 S. Dearborn St. FORGAN, DAVID R. National City Bank. FORGAN, JAMES B. First National Bank. FOWLER, W. A. 343 S. Dearborn St. FRANCIS, CHARLES R. Commissioner of Public Works, City Hall. FRANZ, MATT., ALD. 1618 So. Halsted St. FREUND, LOUIS P. 1656 Garfield Blvd. FURMAN, MARTIN S., Aid. 8725 Houston Ave. GALLAGHER, THOMAS 921 W. Madison St. GETZ, GEO. F. 332 S. Michigan Ave. GILLIAN, REV. JOHN C. 2542 Wallace St. GLACKIN, EDWARD J. Sec'y Board of Local Improvements, 745 Lytle St. GLESSNER J. J. 606 g. Michigan Ave. GOETZ, FRITZ 1802 Clybourn Ave. GORDON. REV. FRANCIS 1825 N. Wood St. GOVIER. SHELDON W., ALD, 11350 Forestville Ave, GRAY, W. A. 744 N. Franklin St. GRIESEMER. CHARLES J. 102 S. Market St. GRUND. CHARLES H, 3511 Archer Avc- GUEPNSEY. GUY. ALD., 6044 Vernon Ave. GUNTHER. DR. PRANK E. 1801 W 35th St. HADEPLEIN, JOHN, .SLD., Itl7 Barrv Ave. HAFBR. HENRY 423 W, 24th St. HAGEY, DR. HARRY H, 800 West 78th St. HALL, RICHARD C, 317 W. Monroe St. HARPER, DR, W. B. 3441 Michigan Ave, HARRISON, CARTER H. 2100 Lincoln Park West. HARTKB, BMIL A. 5339 Wayne Ave. HORNE, JOHN G., ALD. 3506 W, Jackson Blvd. HAUGAN, HENRY A, State Banli of Chicago. HEBEL, OSCAR 1102 Schiller Bldg. HECHINGER, C. E. ISO N, Dearborn St. HBISBR, A, C, 3535 Archer Ave. HBRLIHY, DANIEL 2743 N. Albany Ave, HERTZ, HENRY L. 30 N. Dearborn St. HILL, FREDERICK A. 5640 W. Lake St., Austin Sta, HILL, JOHN W 1463 Monadnock Block. HINBS, EDWARD 2431 S, Lincoln St. HOLABIRD, WILLIAM 1400 Monroe Bldg. HOOKER, GEORGE E, City Club, 315 Plymouth Court, HOTTINGBR, OTTO G. 801 Milwaukee Ave. HRODBJ, JOS. T. 1352 S. Crawford Ave. HULBURD, CHARLES H, 10 S. Wabash Ave. HULTIN, N. H. 3176 N. Clark St. HUNTER, THOM.'^S M, 140 W. Van Buren St, HUTCHINSON, CHARLES L, Corn Exchange Nat. Bank. JACKSON, GEORGE W, 15 So. Desplaines St. JACKSON, ROBERT R., ALD. 3366 So. Park Ave. JANISZESKI, PRANK H. 1373 W. Chicago Ave. JOHNSON, GEORGE E, Q. 610 Title and Trust Bldg. JOHNSON, NELS 4401 W North Ave. JUDD, EDWARD S. 40 N. Dearborn St, K.VSPAR, WILLIAM 1900 Blue Island Ave. KAVANAGH, MAURICE F,, ALD. 1703 W. Jackson Blvd. KELLY, REV. B. A, 153 W. Garfield Blvd. KEYES', ROLLIN A. 33 5 W. Lake St. KOCH, FRANK J 2603 S, Halsted St. KOHLBECK, VAL., RBV, O, S, B, 1637 Allport St, KOHN, W, C. Concordia Teachers' College, Oak Park, 111, KOWALESKI, B. F. 1259 W, 51st St, KRABOL, O. O. 1740 N. Maplewood Ave. KRUBGER. WILLIAM F, 2176 Canalport Ave, KRULBWITCH, ERNEST 24 Sheldon St. KRUSB, FRED 1457 Addison St. KUNDE, ERNEST 2025 S. Halsted St. LA MARRE, RBV. JOSEPH V. 3836 S. California Ave. LAUB, ALBERT 2222 S. Halsted St. LBGNER, WM. G. 916 N, Paulina St, LEININGBR, DR, GEO, 1856 W. North Ave, LE TOURNEUX, EDWARD D. 600 Blue IsUind Ave. LIPPS, W. F„ AI,D. 2180 Wilson Ave. 1083 66 LITTLER, H. E. 2505 N. Washtenaw Ave. LITSINGER, EDWARD R. Conway Bldg. LONO, THEODORE K. 4823 Kimbark Ave. LTJRYA. ISAAC 2301 So. Crawford Ave. LYNCH, JOHN A. Nat. Bank of the Republic. LYNCH, THOMAS J.. ALD. 4249 Carroll Ave. MAC CHESNEY, NATHAN WILLIAM 30 N. La Salle St. MAC VEAGH, FRANKLIN 333 W. Lake St. MAMEK, GEO. 1724 Center Ave. MAMER, CHRISTOPHER 501 Throop St. MANG, ALBERT G. 125 W. Monroe St. MARK, CLAYTON 2610 W. 25th Place MARSON, JOS. C. 905 N. Racine Ave. MAYER, LEVY 2010, 208 So. La Salle St. MAYPOLE, WM. T. 2236 Washington Blvd. Mccormick, Alexander a. 5541 Lexington Ave. Mccormick, harold f. 606 S. Michigan Ave. Mcculloch, charlbs h. Ill W. Adams St. -AlcJUNKIN, WM. D. 5 So. Wabash Ave. Mclaughlin, john j. 29 S. La Salle St. McLaughlin, robert j. 5323 Hyde Park Blvd. McNICHOLS, JAMES, ALD. 1322 Washburne Ave. MEYEROVITZ, DR. M. 3136 Douglas Blvd. MITCHELL, JOHN J. Illinois Trust & Saving Bank. MOODY, WALTER D. Room F, Hotel Sherman, MORAN, TBRRBNCB F., ALD. 5634 Ada St. MORAND, PAUL J. 818 S. May St. MORTON, JOY 717 Railway Exchange Bldg. MUELHOEPPER, EDWARD 1325 Clybourn Ave. MULCAHY, ROBT. J., ALD. 1741 W. 33rd S't. NANCE, WILLIS O. 5463 East End Ave. NBRING, JOHN 324 S. La Salle St. NIETERINK, HENRY 1835 W. 12th St. XIMMONS, GEO. C. 2007 Peoples Gas Bldg. NORTON, CHARLBS D. First National Bank, 2 Wall St., New York. NOVAK, JOS. I., ALD. 2401 S. Trumbull Ave. O'BRIEN, PETER J. 29 S. La Salle St. OCHSNER, DR. A. J. 2106 Sedgwick St. OEHMAN. JOHN S. 2247 Wentworth Ave. OLSEN, OSCAR H., ALD. 1015 N. Sacramento Ave. OSBORN. GRANT C. 448 Marquette Bldg. OSTROWSKY, HENRY 1253 S. Halsted St. O'TOOLE, WM. R., ALD. 5227 S. Morgan St. OTT, HERMAN A. 3757 N. Kostner Ave, OTTENHBIMER, HENRY L. 220 S. State St. PAGE. WALTER 1603 Fisher Bldg. PALMER, HONORE • 122 S, Michigan Ave. PALT, FRANK J. 3205 S. Morgan St. PAYNE, JOHN BARTON President Board of South Park Com- missioners. First Nat. Bank Bldg, PEABODY, F. S. 332 S. Michigan Ave. PBLIKAN, D. 1910 S. Halsted St. PELOUZE, WM. NELSON 232 B. Ohio St. PBNDARVIS, ROBERT E. 1018 Ashland Block. PETERSON, WM. A. 1032, 30 N. La Salle St. PETRU, PRANK J. 1441 W. ISth St. PBTTIBONB, AMOS 27 N. Desplaines St. PHELPS, CHARLES A. 1311 Hartford Bldg. PIOTROWSKI, JOHN A., Ai.U. 1459 Blackhawk St. PORTER, GEORGE P. 1009 First National Bank Bldg. POTTER, EDWIN A. Chicago Beach Hotel. POWERS, JOHN, ALD. 162 Washington St. POWERS, RICHARD J., President West Chicago Park Com- missioners, Union Park, Chicago. PRIESS, ABRAHAM 923 Margate Terrace. RAWSON, F. H. Tribune Bldg. RBHM, WILLIAM H. 1900 W. 18th St. REINBERG, PETER President, Board of County Commis- sioners, County Building. REVELL, ALEXANDER H. 141 S. Wabash Ave. REYNOLDS, GEO. M. Continental & Commercial Nat. Bank, RICHERT, JOHN A„ ALD. 2603 S. Halsted St. ROBERTSON, DR. JOJIN DILL Commissioner of Health, City Hall. ROBINSON, THEODORE W. 208 So, La Salle St. ROESCH, J. ALBERT, Jr., 129 So. Jefferson St, ROSENWALD, JULIUS Homan and Arthington Aves. RYBRSON, MARTIN A. 134 S. La Salle St. SCHIAVONB, P. Halsted and Taylor Sts. SCOTT, JOHN W. 300 W. Adams St. SCHUYLER. DANIEL J. 39 S. La Salle St. SCHWARTZ, U. S., ALD. 4838 Vlncennes Ave. SERGEL, CHAS. H. President Sanitary District, 900 S. Michigan Ave. SHANAHAN, DAVID E. 115 S. Dearborn St. SHANAHAN, D. S. 300 W. South Water St. SHEDD, JOHN G. 219 W. Adams St. SHEPARD, PRANK D. 108 S. La Salle St. SIEWERT. HENRY J. 3865 Milwaukee Ave. SIMMONS, FRANCIS T. President Lincoln Park Board, 320 S. Franklin St. SIMPSON, JAMES 219 W. Adams St. SKALA, FRANK J. 966-970 W. 18th St. SKINNER, EDWARD M. 528 S. Wells St, SMITH. JOS. H„ ALD, 2342 W. Superior St. SMULSKI, JOHN P. 1201 Milwaukee Ave. STAVER, HARRY B. 76th and Wallace Sts. STROBBL, CHARLES L. 1744 Monadnock Bldg. 1084 67 STROM, A. A. 725 Marquette Bldg. STUBE, JOHN H. 7542 Rogers Ave. STUCKART, HENRY 2519 Archer Ave. SULLIVAN, ROGER C. 122 S. Michigan Ave. SULTAN, DR. GEORGE 3325 W. 12th St. SUNNY. BERNARD E. 230 W. Washington St. SWIFT, EDWARD P. Union Stocli Yards. SZYMANSKI, WALENTY 1907 Blue Island Ave. TAYLOR. GRAHAM 955 Grand Avp. TEICH. MAX L. 328 S. Clark St. TENINGA, HERMAN 11227 Michigan Ave. THOMPSON, JOHJJ R. 350 N. Clark St. THOMPSON, HON. WILLIAM HALE 3200 Sheridan Road. THORNS, CHARLES H. 618 W. Chicago Ave.. TINSMAN, HOMER E. 1350 First National Bank Bldg. TOBIN, T. 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Dearborn St. ZIMMBR, MICHAEL Cook County Hospital, 1085 INDEX Subject Page No. Accomplishments on Plan of Chicago, 4 Appointment of Plan Commission, 4 Ashland Avenue, 57 Assessments, Special, 5 Benefit of Improvements, 6, 7 Bennett, E. H., Consultant, 4, 5, 41, 58 Bonds Voted, 5 Boulevard Along Drainage Canal 20 Bridges 20 Burnham, Daniel Hudson, 24 Memorial to, 25 Burnham Park, 25 Business Advertising, 13, 15 Busse, Mayor Fred A. 4, 22, 31 Butler, Edward B., 47 Campaigns, 15 Chamberlin, Henry Barrett, 14 Chicago Advantages, 7, 62 Chicago Harbor Commission, 50 Chicago Plan, (See Plan of Chicago) Chicago Plan Commission: Appointment, 4 Finances, 21 Headquarters, 14 Influence of, 22 Membership of, 64 Officers, 64 Value of, 6 Chicago's Greatest Issue, 10 City Council Support, 24 City Planning Profitable 6 City Revenue from Improvements, Civic Center, 19 Commerce, Effect of Plan on, 6 Commercial Club: Contributions, 21 Membership on Commission, 22 Plan Report, 10 Tribute to, 21 Completing Improvements, 5 Congress Street, 19 Constitutional Conventon, 20 Consultant of Commission, 4, 5, 41, 56 Cook County Board of Forest Preserve Commissioners, 57, 59 Cost of Plan Projects, 5 Counsel, Legal, 20 Destiny of Chicago, 25 Distribution of Literature, 8, 14 Drainage Canal Boulevard, 20 Executive Committee, 64 Exterior Highway System: Bond Issue, 60 Circuit Roads, 60 Circuit Roads Paved, 62 Improvement Program, 60 Paving, 60 Radial Roads, 60 Radial Roads Paved, 61 Faherty, Michael J., 24, 38 Financing Plan Commission, 21 First Constructive Work, 22, 34 Forest Preserves: Area Acquired, 59 Benefits, 59 Cost, 60 State Law, 59 Subject Page No. Good Roads, (See Exterior Highway System) ' Great Purpose of Plan of Chicago, 7, 63 Grouping Public Buildings, 19 Harrison, Mayor Carter H., 22, 23, 32, 34, 39, 42, 48 Headquarters, Chicago Plan Commisson, 14 Flousing, 20 Illinois Central Improvement, (See Lake Front) Improvements: Benefit of, 6 New Ones Advocated, 7, 8 Time of Completing, 5 Increased Bonding Power, 8 Increased City Revenue, 6 Increased Property Values, 6, 7 Indian Boundary Road, 18 Influence of Plan Commission, 22 Initial Constructive Work, 22, 34 Lake Front : Agreement, 46 Area of New Park, 43 Bathing Beaches, 45 Bond Issue, 50 Chicago Harbor Commission, 50 Commercial Harbor, 45 Cost, 51 Government Permit, 47 History, 47, 50 Motorboat Courses, 45 Ordinance, 46, 49 Outer Drive Connection, IS Park Plans, 45, 51 Railroad Benefit, 45 Railroad Concessions, 46 Railroad Plans, 43, 46, 51 Street-car Lines, 45 Three Year Program, 51 Time Limits, 51 Watercourse, 45 Lantern Slides, 14 Lectures, 12 Legal Counsel, 20 Legislative Matters, 8 Literature Distribution, 8, 14 Manual, Wacker's, 12 Meetings, Notable 15 Membership, Commission, 61 Memorial to Burnham, 25 Michigan Avenue: Aids, 38 Assessment Zone, 37 Bond Issues, 38 Bridge, 36 Celebration, 38 Completion, Time of 38 Cost, 38 Court Trial, 37 Increased Property Values, 6 New Buildings, 6 Ordinances, 34, 37 Plazas, 18 Purpose, 34 Special Assessments, 38 Widening, 34 1086 69 Subject Page No. Minor Street Improvements, 20 Moody, Walter D.: Book, "What of the City?" 15 Testimonial to, 28 Motion Pictures, 12 National Conference on City Planning, 14 New Improvements Advocated, 7, 8 New Matters, 16 New Parks, 20 New York Tourist Revenue, 6 News Stories, 13 Newspaper Support, 10 Notable Meetings, 15 Object Lessons, 4 Ogden Avenue: Assessment Zone, 53 Bond Issue, 53 Description, 51 Ordinance, 52 Purpose, 51 Value, 52 Organizations, Assistance of, 24 Outer Lake Front Connection, 18 Parks, 20 Plan Lectures, 12 Plan of Chicago: Accomplishments on Plan, 4 Bonds Voted, 5 Cost of Projects, 5 Created by Commercial Club, 4 Great Purpose of Plan, 7, 63 Plan Presented to City, 4 Problems to be Solved, 63 Railroad Cost, 5 Tme of Completion, 5 Value of City Planning, 6 What the Plan Is, 63 Plan of Chicago Day, 14 Plan Projects Recapitulated, 31 Plazas, Michigan Avenue, 18 Polk Street, 19 Post Office, 8 Problems to be Solved, 7, 8 Profit in City Planning, 6 Property Value Increases, 6 Public Btiildings, Grouping of, 19 Public Support, 24 Publicity, 10 Railroad Cost, 5 Railway Terminal Commission, 42 Railway Terminals: Citizen's Terminal Committee, 40 City Benefits, 40 Concessions, 42 Cost, 43 Improvements at Railroad Expense, 42 Negotiations, 40 Subject Page No. Ordinances, 42 Position of Plan Officials, 41 Railroad Plans, 40 Railway Terminal Commission, 42 River Straightening, 16, 42 Recapitulation of Plan Projects, 31 Reconstruction Platform, 14 River Straightening, 16, 42 Robey Street, 57 Rogers Avenue, 18 Roosevelt Road: Assessment Zone, 32 Bond Issues, 32 Celebration, 33 Cost, 34 Court Trial, 32 East Extension, 34 Increased Property Values, 6 Ordinance, 31 Purpose, 32 Special Assessments, 34 Widening, 33 Roster of Members, 64 South Water Street: Annual Saving, 54 Bond Issue, 56 Description, 54 Ordinances, 55 Purpose, 54 Special Assessments, 5 State Street Connection with Roosevelt Road, 20 Stereopticon Lectures, 12 Straightening River, 16, 42 Street Improvements, 16 Ten Year Report Adopted, 26 Testimonial : To Chairman Charles H. Wacker, 28 To Managing Director Walter D. Moody, 28 Thrity-ninth Street, 19 Thompson, Mayor William Hale, 22, 23, 32, 37, 38 Tower Court, 20 Twelfth Street (See Roosevelt Road) Unsolved Problems, 7, 8 Unsubdivided Sections, 20 Value of Chicago Plan Commission, 6 Value of City Planning, 6 Wacker, Charles H., Testimonal to, 28 Wacker's Manual, 12 West Side Streets, 56 Western Avenue: Bond Issue, 57 Ordinances, 57 "What of the City?"— Moody's book, 15 What the Plan of Chicago Is, 63 Zoning, 19 1087 PRESS OF BUFiMElSTER PRINTING CO. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS ^o69