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21. Luncheon by Daniel Hudson Burnham, architect, to his business city planning colleagues, when the Plan Luncheon by Daniel Hudson Burnham, architect, to his business city planning colleagues, when the Plan of Chicago was completed in 1908 Meetings; Conference rooms; Tables; Men; Government officials; City planning; p. 1020 photo caption: "Luncheon by Daniel Hudson Burnham, architect, to his busines city planning colleagues, when the Plan of Chicago was completed in 1908." The name of each person in the photo follows...
22. Plan of Chicago in 1925: Fifteen Years Work of the Chicago Plan Commission, 1925 Plan of Chicago in 1925: Fifteen Years Work of the Chicago Plan Commission, 1925 Plans; Reclamation of land; Coastlines; Digital reproduction of a page on Chicago lake front from the book The Plan of Chicago in 1925: Fifteen Years Work of the Chicago Plan Commission. Issued from the headquarters of the Chicago Plan Commission,...
23. Illinois Central Rail-Road Company Offer (sic) for Sale Over 2,400,000 Acres, Selected Prairie, Farm Illinois Central Rail-Road Company Offer (sic) for Sale Over 2,400,000 Acres, Selected Prairie, Farm and Wood Lands Covers (Illustration); Advertisements; Selling; Land In the decade between 1850 and 1860, the Illinois Central had transformed the face of the Chicago lakefront, and had stimulated the development of the city's outlying areas. The era of railroad growth...
24. Mayor and Common Council of the City of Chicago, Praying an Appropriation to Protect that City from the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Chicago, Praying an Appropriation to Protect that City from the Encroachments of Lake Michigan, February 17, 1840 Petitions; Mayors; City council members; Taxes; Mayor Alexander Lloyd and the Common Council did not plead for an appropriation of money from the Government. Instead, they asked for an "unconditional donation" of the land in the Fort Dearborn Addition...
25. Plan of Chicago Harbor Plan of Chicago Harbor Maps; This 1839 plan for the Chicago harbor illustrates five years of shoreline encroachments and marks the position of the piers on the Chicago River. The blueprint notes that the public ground at Randolph...
26. Chicago South Park Commission, Plan of the South Open Ground..., as proposed to be laid out by Olmsted, Chicago South Park Commission, Plan of the South Open Ground..., as proposed to be laid out by Olmsted, Vaux & Company, Landscape Architects, 1871 The design for Chicago's park system began in 1869, with Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux’s ambitious proposal for the South Park.
27. Petition to the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States for a land grant to aid the Petition to the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States for a land grant to aid the Newcastle and Richmond Railroad Company, et al., ca. 1853 Digital reproduction of the signed printed document: Petition to the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States for a land grant to aid the Newcastle and Richmond Railroad Company, et al.,...
28. "Received in store from Barge [Adrana] for Mr. Z. Brown, Chicago, to forward to M. Kingman & Company, "Received in store from Barge [Adrana] for Mr. Z. Brown, Chicago, to forward to M. Kingman & Company, Buffalo, April 29, 1840." Steamboats and vessels from the East stopped at Chicago's port, which served as a great thoroughfare for both goods and passengers bound for the interior of the country.
29. Map of Chicago, Incorporated as a Town, August 5, 1833, compiled from the original "Map of Chicago about Map of Chicago, Incorporated as a Town, August 5, 1833, compiled from the original "Map of Chicago about 1833," by Walter H. Conley and O.E. Stelzer, 1933 Maps
30. Profile of a Section of the Kinzie's Addition Profile of a Section of the Kinzie’s Addition Maps Horizontal scale 150 feet to 1 inch. Vertical scale 40 feet to 1 inch. Note: The figures in red at the intersection of the streets denote the proposed grade above high water in the Chicago River. Those...
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