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Planning a world metropolis (1909)

Hyde, Henry M. (Henry Morrow), b. 1866, Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago) ICIU · [Chicago : Technical World Co.] · leaf 16

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way towards approximate perfection.Freight tunnels under all the down-townstreets, connecting the various railwaystations, are now in operation and onlythe other day a great syndicate made pro-posals for building a complete systemof subways for passenger traffic. Elec-trification of railways… … ALONG CHICAGOS WATER-FRONT. its new Post Office building at the inter-section of these streets. Chicago is the center and metropohsof a fertile empire greater in area thanGermany or France. It is already thegreatest railroad center in the world.More than three thousand miles of nav-igable rivers…

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