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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 35

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ses that thewhole lake front should be converted intoa public park. The lake is the chief adorn-ment of Chicago, and its shore is the onlyplace from which Chicago people can getan unobstructed view of it. The Plan sayseloquently: The Lake is living water, ever in motionand ever changing in color… … X s - ^- i_ 1) •o S = el A STUDY OF THE NEW PLAN OF CHICAGO 425 the evening sk\. Its colors vary with theshadows that play upon it. In its everyaspect it is a living thing, delighting manseye and refreshing his spirit. Not a foot ofits shores should be appropriated to individ-uals, to the exclusion…

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