Wacker's manual of the plan of Chicago; municipal economy (1911)
Moody, Walter Dwight, 1874-1920, Wacker, Charles Henry, 1856-, Chicago Plan Commission · [Chicago, Printed by H. C. Sherman & co. · leaf 25
ade from neweconomies. In our citiesgreat public works have been undertakento save lives. The public health officerdoes not allow people to waste theirhealth. Millions of dollars are spentin build-ing greatcanals andin cut-ting newstreets,and all ofthesethings areto elim-inate ex-pense, t osave… … Robert De LaSalle, who in 1681-2made the first Lakes to the Gulftrip, making- a portage from the Chi-cago River to the Desplaines River. [Original Owned by Chi. His. Soc]
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