NY Times blogger praises Chicago as "A City With a Plan"

themoment.blogs.nytimes.com - 21 weeks ago - 337 views

Chicago, a city known for its civic pride, has a lot to be proud of this year. Last week marked the beginning of an ambitious summer-long program of events to celebrate the centennial of the architect Daniel Burnham's visionary 1909 Plan of Chicago, which transformed the gritty city into a "city beautiful."

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by The Commish 21 weeks 1 day ago

Our city

...which has a Mayor who sells out his constituents to the IOC without even checking with the city council beforehand

...which sells off its parking meters for nearly a billion dollars less than they are worth

...which is moving its children's museum from a perfectly good spot into park land for no discernible reason whatsoever

...has a plan?

If so, it must be like the one on Battlestar Galactica that the writers said the Cylons had, a plan you hear about every week for 3 years only to learn that it was really just being pulled out of their butts along.

by Len Kody 21 weeks 1 day ago

Well, if you feel like you need to escape for a few hours into the neat, Victorian order and Neoclassical gravitas of the Gilded Age, here's the ENTIRE TEXT of Burnham's 100 year old "Plan of Chicago," recognized by the NYT in the root link of this thread here, and earlier this week in the Wall Street Journal.

Man, if New York keeps patting us on the back like this, I might start getting suspicious.

click the "cover" to "open," just like a real old timey book --->

by Mike Doyle 21 weeks 7 hours ago

Well, thank you New York Times...and who cares? Most of the time Chicago gets a pretty backhanded treatment from NY media. We needn't be overly impressed that Gotham print news momentarily took notice of the Central time zone.