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The plan advises: "The city which brings about the best conditions of life becomes the most prosperous." London's citizens, it warns, who rejected the 1666 plan proposed by the great Christopher Wren, put their own "perverse self-interests" first and cost the city
Celebrating 100 years of Daniel Burnham's Plan of Chicago
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That sketch of the city next to the story is amazing.
Love reading about this part of Chicago's history. Makes me want to revisit "Devil in the White City."
I don't recall any characters like Ald. Joe Moore speaking out in the days leading up to the Columbian Exposition.
But then, I'm sure "Big Plans" Burnham makes a pretty good spokesman for what Daley is selling
Wren won the British battle. It's his name which appears on the south side of Chicago Art Institute.
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