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 72
of squares, as the city spreadinto the adjoining country. Only where theold Indian trails had been developed intocountry roads were diagonal streets pro-vided in the expanding city. No man, whencutting up a farm into city lots, could seewhy he should sacrifice property he couldsell as lots to… … Vienna in tlie ITtli Century. extended, rough plank paving was put in,little cars drawn by horses appeared, gaslamps came to flicker in the streets at night,brick buildings supplanted frame struc-tures, a railroad entered the city, and so,with gradual improvements, Chicago be-came a big city of…
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