Chicago Plan Commission · [Chicago] The Chicago plan commission · leaf 68
harbor proper lies betweenTwelfth and Washington streets, which are to be extendedinto the lake, under the plan, to land-lock the central har-bor. You will remember, too, that the great piers to markthe entrance to the harbor and to provide lake parks forfuture Chicagoans are to jut out from… … 65 Economy dictates the selection of Congress street be-cause it is now a street of disconnected character. Thebuildings throughout the district it is proposed to widenare comparatively inexpensive, too. Also if we were towiden another street we would have to destroy two front-ages to obtain…
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