Chicago then and now : a pictorial history of the citys development and a reprint of the first city directory published in Chicago by J.W. Norris in 1844, Part 13

Author: Butt, Ernest; Norris, James Wellington, 1815?-1882
Publication date: 1933
Publisher: Chicago : Aurora, Finch & McCullouch
Number of Pages: 222


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The hectic days following '71 failed to temper Chica- go's flair for culture. Rather, public-spirited citizens of other countries provided means for remembrance. Following the Great Fire a group of English gentlemen, including royalty, contributed some 8,000 books and sent them on from Eng- land. When the shipment arrived there was no place to put the bulky contents. Then some bright mind conceived an idea. An abandoned water tank that had escaped the Fire stood on a lot at Adams and LaSalle streets. In a jiffy a door was cut into it, a skylight placed over it, shelves ranged around the walls, and in a few days the aesthetic souls of the ruined city were lightening their arduous labors with copious doses of Keats and Shelley. That makeshift reservoir of food for thought was the predecessor of the present Chicago Public Library, than which there is no whicher in scope and service. Two other free libraries appeared within a decade or two, the Crerar and the Newberry. Both were gifts of


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Chicago citizens and both are maintained to this day for the cultural uplift of Chicago and Chicagoans.


The University of Chicago started in 1854, following a gift of land by Senator Douglas, Lincoln's vis-a-vis in his- toric debate. It lasted until 1885, when it passed out of ex- istence due to inadequate financing. Then John D. Rocke- feller appeared with $600,000 and Marshall Field donated a block and a half of land. Soon the school possessed twen- ty-five acres between Washington and Jackson parks along what is now the Midway. Today the U. of C. is considered one of the world's great institutions of learning, with gradu- ates gracing the front lines of art, science, and industry the world over. When "I Will" donned cap and gown, Chi- cago drew another "first" for its University.


Looking east on Adams street at Clark in 1886, the old Federal Building at the right. Buggies and horse cars still were the vogue, yet Chicago was hitting its stride toward the '93 Fair.


Still another Chicago project in which Marshall Field acted as one of the prime movers is the Art Institute. It was incorporated in 1879 and quickly built up one of the most marvelous collections of paintings, sculptures, and ob- jets de art in the country. Its school has trained many a "great name" signed to canvas and marble. Its fame is world-wide, likewise that of its alumni. But most impor- tant of all is that it has placed within reach of the ubiquitous


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Dearborn and Adams streets in 1883. At that time "The Fair" was a two-story building. Beyond it is the Adams Express Building, one of the city's first "skyscrapers".


"man in the street" the works of genius of this and bygone ages of every nationality. Chicago surely possesses an inex- haustible mine of artistic lore in its Art Institute and shows its generosity by making it available to one and all. When "I Will" turned to brush and chisel Culture commenced spelling itself with a capital C.


The Elegant Eighties brought to the bustling metropolis three measures of time-saving comfort: electric lights, tele- phones, and cable cars. A 50-light dynamo in the basement of the Y. M. C. A. building in 1880 brought the genius of Edison to the service of the city. The old Academy of Music on Halsted street, home of blood and thunder melo- drama as well as the classics, was the first theatre in the world to use incandescent lamps. Haverly's theatre at Monroe and Dearborn was the first to install complete elec- tric lighting equipment. History records that the audience rose and cheered for fifteen minutes when the lights twink- led into soft radiance for the first time.


Too, part of Chicagoland offers the scene of the pioneer electric street lighting installation. Aurora, thirty miles west of Chicago in the Fox River valley, was the first city in the world to use electric energy to illuminate its streets. Another case of the "I Will" spirit stepping out beyond the city limits and making hay.


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Telephones began to serve the public in 1881, and it is said the "busy" signal was overworked the first few months before the people began to take wired conversation as a mat- ter of course. Nowadays-but visit the telephonic exhibit at A Century of Progress to see what miracles have been wrought in telephony since the first Chicagoan performed his daily dozen winding the crank to inform his lady fair that he was detained downtown that night "in conference" with a couple of visiting firemen.


In the 80's, too, Chicago decided to relegate horse-drawn cars to oblivion and admire its horseflesh at the Washington Park race track. Cable cars whizzed over State street south to Thirty-ninth for the first time in 1882-at twelve miles an hour. Soon the south side was a network of cable slots. Later the north and west sides were similarly served. Which enabled working people to live farther away from the center of the city and still get to their work at par without undue loss of time. The new method of transportation had a lot to do with extending the city limits and, because of its popu- larity, developed in its patrons the muscular "straphanger's arm" the city needed to put over the great Fair of '93.


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A bird's-eye view of the '93 Fair in all its pristine splendor.


The theatre put its best foot foremost in the 80's. Sara Bernhardt, Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and Lawrence Bar- rett made Chicago a regular port of call on their tours, and the haute monde as well as the masses of the great city paid homage and ticket fees to those distinguished stars. Beauti- ful churches and lovely parks contributed to the uplift. Chi- cago in the 80's was fast becoming the "city beautiful" that revealed itself first in the Fair of '93 and, second, in A Century of Progress Exposition.


As Chicago barged into the 90's with whistles blowing and flags flying after the tremendous comeback of the 70's and 80's, the population ran-not walked-something over a million. Granite, sandstone, and brick faced with marble were fashioned into mansions of unbelievable richness, re- placing the rococo monstrosities of a bygone day. Cheerful brick cottages with tiny gardens sat snug instead of the drab frame dwellings of the 60's. Skyscrapers ballooned out of the business district. The lake front was fast creating the famous "sky line" so familiar in newsreel and photograph of today. In other words, Chicago had grown, acquired an aura of classical beauty unmatched anywhere in the States.


If Chicago was indebted to the Great Fire for its oppor- tunity to rebuild in stone, glass, steel, and cement, it owes its world-wide cultural fame of today to the World's Col- umbian Exposition of 1893. With that tremendous event the city cut itself another slice of prosperity topped only by the cycle that is in process of gestation right now. And it


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was a tremendous event, as poignantly resultful as lifting the city out of the mud in the 50's and, later, rebuilding after the Great Fire.


For years the city's leaders had discussed the plan of cele- brating the four-hundredth anniversary of Columbus' land- ing. Remember, this in a city a thousand miles inland, and in spite of the opposition of New York and several other cit- ies seeking the honor. But discussions became plans. So much so that other cities resorted to invective in order to halt Chi- cago. Dana, famous editor of the New York Sun, referred to the temerity of "that windy city" in even discussing such a project. That name, "Windy City," Chicago bears today. But Dana meant garrulous boasting rather than the constant blowing of a breeze. However, windy or not, fanfaronade or meteorological disturbance, Chicago got the Fair when Con- gress passed an act providing for a commission to go over the city's plans and thus gave official sanction to the project. Later Congress named the dates of opening and closing. President Harrison issued a proclamation announcing the event to the world, and all nations were invited to partici- pate. The fact that 49 nations and 37 colonies and provinces did take part indicates that "I Will" had achieved an inter- national reputation for going places and doing things.


The World's Fair of '93 established a number of "famous names." These men constituted the official group. Reading from left to right: Daniel H. Burnham, architect in chief, director of works, chief of construction, and author of the present "Chi- cago Plan"; Architect Geo. B. Post; Montgomery B. Pickett, secretary of works; Architect Henry Van Brunt; Frank D. Millet, director of decoration; Maitland Armstrong, artist; Col. Edward Rice, commandant; Augustus St. Gaudens, sculp- tor; Henry Codman, landscape architect; Architect Geo. May- nard; Architect Chas. McKim; Ernest Graham, assistant to Mr. Burnham; Dion Geraldine, general superintendent.


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The Lagoon of the World's Fair of 1893. Note the gondola, of which there is a profusion at today's Century of Progress. Experts insist the later gondoliers render "O Sole Mio" in richer voice. Maybe it's the crooning influence.


With official sanction obtained, that "I Will" spirit sprang quickly to the van. The plan originally provided for a fund of five millions of dollars to carry it through. Chi- cago raised ten, five by popular subscription and a similar amount by bond issue. The point is, the city not only accom- plished what it started, but went beyond imaginable limits -as if there is any limit to what Chicago could, or can, do. Didn't we stage a Dempsey-Tunney fight that topped all existing records ?


There will be no attempt to describe the World's Col- umbian Exposition in this brief space. There neither are sufficient words nor paper stock extant. Nor is it the pro- vince of this writer to compare the Fair of 1893 with A Cen- tury of Progress of 1933. Anyway, comparisons breed con- tempt in readers qualified to form their own opinions. The World's Columbian Exposition was a forthright reflection of its time coupled with a glimpse into the future. The Century of Progress is a product of our time. The two are forty years apart, forty years of progressive development that practically tripled the city's population, changed the makeup of just about everything save human nature, and substituted complexity for comparative simplicity in the daily routine of life. No, there can be no comparison between the two. It is sufficient for the reader to know that each rep- resents Chicago at its best-in 1893 and 1933.


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One thing that mirrored the spirit of the people in con- nection with the '93 Fair was the fact that little or no profit- eering prevailed. In spite of the millions of visitors that poured into Chicago for the event, prices of hotel accomo- dation were never lifted, shops maintained their usual scale of figures, and railroads granted ridiculously low excursion rates ... all of which helped to advertise Chicago and its people throughout the world as the host of hosts.


Thus the "I Will" spirit of Chicago was put to the su- preme test and again it triumphed. During and after the Exposition Chicago leaped to the front and became a rec- ognized factor in the cultural and business life of the world. Above all, the '93 Fair gave the city confidence, and it is that confidence which enabled it to stage the marvelous Cen- tury of Progress Exposition upon which the eyes of the world rest today-and acquire strabismus in the process.


Many permanent assets were inherited by the city as a result of the '93 Fair. The elevated railroad, an unequaled suburban railroad service, an efficient street car system, splendid hotels and apartment buildings, enlarged stores and shops and offices ... all remained for our people to use and enjoy. The effect of these assets is felt even today.


Looking across the main basin of the '93 Fair. The edifice in the background is the Manufacturing and Liberal Arts Building; that at the right is the Agricultural Building.


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The Grand Basin of the World's Fair of 1893, looking west. Visit- ors the world over called the '93 Exposition "an architectural triumph." That City of White will never be forgotten.


And, of course, the rebuilt Fine Arts building in Jackson Park will ever remain a permanent memento.


Following the Fair, Chicago experienced another finan- cial stringency and a sanguinary railroad strike. Both had far-reaching effects, both were keenly felt; but the old Chi- cago confidence strode to the fore and the do-or-die spirit engulfed the disturbances in a whirlwind of progressive de- velopment and squelched the disturbers with a rataplan of nightsticks. "I Will" could be implacable on occasion.


With the growth of Chicago to a metropolis of myriad businesses and a population going on two millions came the century-old problem of drainage. Keen minds had been at work for years on a solution, finally culminating in a re- versal of the current of the Chicago river and causing it to flow away from the lake instead of into it. This was accom- plished by dredging the river to a suitable depth, digging an artificial channel to follow closely the line of the old Illi- nois and Michigan canal, and causing the water to flow into the Desplaines. Thus was created the Drainage Canal that freed Lake Michigan from the polluted waters of the Chi- cago river and purged it of refuse dumped directly into it by industrial plants along the shore. Since the opening of the Drainage Canal at the close of the nineteenth century the city's death rate from water-borne disease has dropped to an almost negligible figure.


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in June, 1933. Thus it serves the double purpose of health and navigation. Over a period of years the channel was deepened, locks were built and bridges remodeled, until to- day vessels may steam from the Lakes to New Orleans with- out dropping either pilot or anchor.


Credit for this most recent great public improvement must be given to the men of Chicago. If the city takes a full measure of pride and satisfaction in the achievement, it is not because its benefits will accrue only to the com- munity . .. they will not ... the waterway is dedi- cated to the service of the entire nation . . . but only be- cause the project was planned by Chicagoans, built largely with Chicago money, and carried to glorious completion by virtue of that "I Will" spirit so characteristically dis- played in every Chicago undertaking.


The present beauty of Chicago is not due to haphazard building and hit or miss improvement. Rather it is the re- sult of orderly planning in adapting abnormal growth to nat- ural surroundings, to exactly specifying which shall go where, and to the sometimes inspired co-operation on the part of public-spirited citizens.


State and Madison streets in 1905, when the cable cars rattled along without the aid of stop and go signs. The famed Mason- ic Temple can be seen in the middle distance.


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The world's largest business building, the Merchandise Mart, now occupies the north bank of the river where qvild onions once grew in wild-and scented-profusion.


The Chicago Plan sometimes is said to be a direct out- growth of the Fair of '93, for it was Daniel Burnham, its chief of construction, who brought forward the idea of a mighty city built along carefully wrought plans always with an eye to the future. In other words, Burnham drew up the famed Plan of Chicago that is beginning to take shape in the city of today and which will be furthered and brought to completion in the still mightier city of a century hence.


In 1909 the Chicago Plan Commission came into exist- ence to bring to fruition the plans Burnham had put on paper for posterity. These included a lake front of mar- velous beauty and which is well along to reality; a civic center where are to be grouped the principal public struc- tures; broad diagonal arteries leading from this civic center to the city limits and beyond to increase the capacity and speed, with safety, of traffic ; concentric rings of wide boule- vards at convenient distances apart; a system of parks and linking boulevards, which is also nearing completion; key streets running the entire length of the city wide enough to accomodate the traffic of the future; taking the kinks out of the river and spanning it with the last word in bridges; and above all a style of architecture suited to modern needs but yet containing the elements of beauty and harmony.


Chicagoans will recognize that much of this Plan has been carried out. The Grant Park of today, Soldiers' Field,


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the Field Museum, the new I. C. depot at Randolph street, the Union Station just across the river at Jackson boulevard, Wacker Drive, the Outer Drive, the Link Bridge, the Civic Opera building, the Daily News building, the new buildings along North Michigan avenue, the widening of Western and Ashland avenues-all are part and parcel of the Chicago Plan. There is much - very much -still to be done before the Plan approaches even an appreciable de- gree of completion. Even the present program will not be completed until about 1960. But it is well to remember that Chicago belongs as much to the future as it does to the present and the past. More so. It will be an heritage of your children and your children's children to be able to mar- vel at what Charles H. Wacker, James Simpson, and their


Buckingham Fountain in Grant Park, largest of its kind in the world, provides an impressive picture with Chicago's famed skyline as a backdrop. This is one of the many civic improve- ments made in accord with Burnham's "city beautiful" plan.


successors hath wrought in weaving the dreams of Daniel Burnham into reality-and surpassing them. James Simp- son, chairman of the Commission, epitomized the guiding spirit of that body in a recent declaration : "We have never built big enough in Chicago, to say nothing of building too big." There's "I Will" in a nutshell.


So today Chicago stands upon the threshold of a new cycle of development ushered in with A Century of Prog- ress Exposition ... that sublime ornament symbolizing the Past, the Present, and the Future glistening like a many-


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Chicago's downtown Lake Front today, gradually shaping itself into a realm of beauty and proportion under the guiding hand of the Chicago Plan Commission.


faceted jewel upon the city's lake front. Visit it by all means. Visit it again and again. To drink in even half its mar- vels requires many draughts. It mirrors the progress of ten decades in art and science and industry. It offers a liberal education even to the most learned. It opens hearts as well as eyes and minds. It apotheosizes the City of Chicago, a city of cattle and culture, a city of steel and brick and concrete, a city with a soul that houses the spark of immortality. But most of all it interprets an intangible thing that a century ago reared upon the drab, muddy shores of a river flowing into a lake a City of Destiny.


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ERNEST BUTT


Chicago, July 1, 1933.


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HOW CHICAGO GREW


Orignial Town as platted in 1830 had an area of about three- eighths of a mile. The Town limits were Kinzie street, Madison street, State street, and Desplaines street. Less than a hundred people lived in this area.


1833 Town incorporated


Population: 150 Area : 2.42 sq. miles Town limits: Chicago avenue, Twelfth street, the Lake (exclud- ing Fort Dearborn), and Halsted street.


1837 City chartered


Population : 4,170 Area: 10.64 sq. miles


City limits: North avenue, Twenty-second street, the Lake (ex- cluding Fort Dearborn), Wood street, and including a small tract north to Center street between La Salle and the Lake.


1844 First City Directory issued


Population: 10,170 Area : 9.76 sq. miles City limits: same as in 1837, except two small tracts of land with- drawn by Act of Legislature. They were restored in 1851.


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First railroad from Chicago in operation First message by telegraph received-from Milwaukee Population: 20,023 Area : 9.76 sq. miles


City limits: same as in 1844.


1855


First vote on prohibition taken- 2,784 for; 4,093 against


Population: 80,023 Area : 18 sq. miles City limits: North branch of the River from North avenue to Ful- lerton avenue, east to the Lake, south to Thirty-first street, west to Halsted street, north to the south branch of the River, west to Western avenue, north to North avenue, and east to the north branch of the River.


1860 First major political convention held Abraham Lincoln nominated for Presidency by Republicans Population: 109,206 Area : 18 sq. miles City limits: same as in 1855.


1865 First Pullman sleeping car in service


Population : 178,492 Area : 24.28 sq. miles City limits: Fullerton avenue, the Lake, Pershing road (Thirty- ninth street), and Western avenue.


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Western city limits extended to Crawford avenue north to North avenue in 1869. This extension included the area north of Fullerton and east of Western avenue to the River's north branch.


1872 Recovering from the Great Fire


Area : 35.76 sq. miles Population : 367,396


1880 First electric lighting equipment installed


Area : 35.76 sq. miles Population : 503,185


In 1887 the Village of Jefferson was annexed; and the Towns of Jefferson, Lake, part of Cicero, the Village of Hyde Park, and the City of Lake View followed in 1889.


1890 First electric street cars operated


Area : 169.84 sq. miles Population: 1,099,850


In 1890 the Villages of South Englewood, Washington Heights, West Roseland, and part of Gano were annexed; the Village of Fernwood in 1891; and the Villages of Rogers Park, West Ridge, and Norwood Park in 1893.


1893 World's Columbian Exposition held


Area : 186.14 sq. miles Population : 1,253,022


In 1895 part of the Town of Calumet was annexed. Austin followed in 1899.


1900 Sanitary District Canal opened


Area : 190.64 sq. miles Population : 1,698,575


The Village of Edison Park was annexed in 1910; Morgan Park in 1914; Clearing, part of City of Evanston, and part of Town of Stickney in 1915; and another part of Stickney in 1917.


1918 First Air Mail arrives


Area : 199.37 sq. miles Population : 2,622,338


Another part of Stickney was annexed in 1921 ; parts of Towns of Maine and Niles in 1922; another part of Stickney in 1923; part of Town of Norwood Park and parts of Townships of Maine and Niles in 1924; Village of Mt. Greenwood and parts of Towns of Norwood Park and Calumet in 1927; parts of Towns of Norwood Park, Leyden, Calumet, and Niles in 1928 ; part of Village of River Grove in 1929; and Village of Beverly in 1930.


1933 A Century of Progress celebrated


Population : 3,555,782 Area : 210.74 sq. miles


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CHICAGO NOW.


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Looking across the Link Bridge at the London Guarantee, Mather Tower, and Pure Oil buildings. Fort Dearborn stood on this spot.


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Looking north on Michigan avenue from the Link Bridge-Tribune Building to the right, Palmolive Building in the distance.


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Of all Chicago's statues the Art Institute lions are probably the best known. They have stood there for forty years, and never yet roared at the jokes perennially passing them.


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Looking southwest at Chicago's famed skyline from the colonade at the north end of Grant Park. The adjective is "majestic".


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Looking south on Michigan avenue from the Link Bridge. All the new buildings seen are part of Burnham's "Chicago Plan".


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The Adler Planetarium, one of Chicago's great educational forces on the Lake Front. The first in America, it is the gift of a Chicago philanthropist, Max Adler.


The Shedd Aquarium, adjacent to the Planetarium, is the gift of a former president of Marshall Field & Company. It is the largest and most modern aquarium in the world.


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The "world's busiest corner": State street looking north from Madison, "Field's" to the right in the middle distance.


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Partial view of Chicago's business district, picturing the vast growth in two decades and indicating the world metropolis of the not-so-distant future.


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A bit of quiet beauty amid the hurly-burly of boulevard traffic- the McKinloch Memorial Court just back of the Art Institute.


Soldiers' Field, the sports stadium on the Lake Front, with the Field Museum of Natural History in the distance and the famous Chicago skyline serving as a background. Looks like the "Chicago Plan" is getting somewhere.


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The Chicago Stadium, the world's largest convention hall and in- door arena. Here the quadrennial conventions of the major political parties are held, as well as every sort of exhibition from flower shows and circuses to ice hockey and boxing matches.


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The financial canyon-no, not a rut-of Chicago: La Salle street looking south to the new Board of Trade building.


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The new twenty-million dollar post office at Canal and Van Buren streets. With both in use, it is expected to relieve the congestion now prevailing in the present twenty-eight-year-old Federal Building at Adams and Clark streets.


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The first Chicago building built on air rights over a railroad- the Daily News Building at Madison, Canal and Washington streets. It won an achitectural medal.


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A CENTURY OF PROGRESS


Nothing illustrates the growth and development of Chi- cago with greater vividness than its World's Fair Centen- nial Celebration. With a hundred years of mighty achieve- ment behind it and an unguessable destiny before it, the great city pauses in its irresistible stride to mark with ma- jestic splendor the completion of a century of progress . . . the first century in which man actually has discovered ways and means to bend all the known forces of nature to his own will and greater development.


Where once a rude fort and a ragged settlement strug- gled for existence with the punishing elements, today a bril- liant panorama of motion and color and light bejewels the green breast of the magnificent metropolis and spreads the marvels of the industries, the arts, and the sciences before the eyes of an amazed world.


The World's Fair Centennial Celebration aims to ack- nowledge the services of scientists whose fact-finding dreams have enriched human knowledge; and to recognize inventors and organizers who, by virtue of these scientific discoveries, have directed natural forces to the uses of man and enlarged his vision, increased his wealth, augmented his comforts, and widened his opportunities.


So Chicago bids you welcome to this greatest of all birth- day parties ... where your only prerequisite is a capacity to marvel at the myriad wonders set before you. It asserts pride in a century of worth-while accomplishment and ex- presses confidence in its ability to cope with a limitless fu- ture. Yet, with due humility, both pride and confidence seem natural in the knowledge that the first hundred years al- ways seem the hardest.


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The Avenue of Flags, leading from the main entrance to the Hall of Science. Down here the world gets its first glimpse of the Fair.


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The Illinois Host Building, with the columns of Soldiers' Field forming an impressive backdrop. Here you're "officially" welcomed.


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Looking across the Lagoon at the Hall of Science from Northerly Island. Here the gondoliers break hearts-and dream of breaking eighty on divers golf courses.


In the U-shaped court of the Hall of Science man is pictured freeing himself from the bonds of ignorance. Here's hoping he makes it.


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The Water Gate of the Electrical Building, whose architecture is described as pre-Sumerian. That means long Before the Crash.


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The General Exhibits Group, housing the displays of more than a hundred commercial and industrial organizations. You learn something about Technocracy here.


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The Federal Building and the Hall and Court of States. The three fluted towers represent the three branches of our government: Executive, Legislative, and Judicial.


The Dairy Building, of cubistically modified oval shape, in which is portrayed the story of the foster mother of mankind and the evolution of dairying methods during the past century.


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Interior of the reproduction of Fort Dearborn, showing officers' barracks, a corner of the blockhouse, the powder magazine, and soldiers' barracks.


Exterior of the reproduction of Fort Dearborn. This exhibit, inside and out, was built according to specifications for the original structure built in 1803.


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The Abraham Lincoln group, containing reproductions of the great Emancipator's birthplace, his Indiana home, the store where he clerked and studied law, and chief political arena-the Wigwam.


The Travel and Transport Building. The section to the left is said to be the largest area enclosed beneath a roof and unobstructed by arch, pillar, beam or other support to mar the expanse.


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Looking across the Lagoon from the Court of the Electrical Build- ing, with part of Chicago's skyline just visible.


"The Conquest of Time and Space," a modernistic bas relief over an entrance to Communications Hall. The central beautifully wrought figure, the Genius of Electrical Communications, is twenty-four feet high-but not nearly as wide.


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Within the great court of the Hall of Science. Here world-famous scientists from every land attempt to explain the wonders within.


The Carillon Tower of the Hall of Science rises 176 feet above a courtyard of fountains, pools, and flower gardens.


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The Horticulture and Floriculture Building, containing most, if not all, the wonders of plant life on earth.


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The Chrysler Building, in which is displayed the marvels of modern motordom-and which offers a place to rest one's feet.


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The Hall of Science at night. Vari-colored lights turn this into a fairyland of rainbow hues for tired eyes-to say nothing of a place to rest after a tough day.


Another poem of light after dark is the Federal Building and Hall of States mirrored in the Lagoon.


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A panoramic view of the wonderland that depicts the size of the Sky Ride. The steel towers are 625 feet high, 1,850 feet apart, and connected by cables at the 200-foot level over which rocket cars carry thirty-two passengers per car at six miles an hour. This is the "thrill" of the Exposition.


Another general view of the Fair looking southeast from the 200- foot level of the Sky Ride. Human eyes never looked upon a more soul-stirring sight-or more places to rest.


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The publishers wish to express their appreciation to the Chicago Historical Society, the Art Institute, Century of Progress officials, Kaufmann & Fabry, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Daily News, and various Chicago business men and city officials for the unselfish co-operation given them in assembling the material for this volume.


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