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 39
lude Rome,built fifteen miles up from the Mediter-ranean Sea upon the Tiberriver; Paris, built upon theSeine river near its juncturewith the Marne, ninety milesin a straight line from the Eng-lish channel; and London, builtupon the Tliames river, aboutfifty miles from its moutli.These cities, owing… … South Water Street, Chicago. As nations grew and developed the inte-rior of their countries the growth of popu-- lation has ever been inland. Com-merce, an instrument of the peoplein civilization, followed this inlandmovement. The greatest force inthis development has been the rail-road, which in…
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