Plan of Chicago prepared under the direction of the Commercial club during the years 1906, 1907, and 1908 (1909)
Commercial club of Chicago. [from old catalog], Burnham, Daniel Hudson, 1846-1912, Bennett, Edward H. [from old catalog], Moore, Charles, 1855-1942, ed · Chicago, The Commercial club · leaf 41
itions of the new. The destiny that ruled her beginnings seemed,as she grew, to have had no clement of chance, but to have been determined by foresight and wisecounsel. Her statesmen were the ablest, her merchants the most adventurous and most success-ful, her seamen the boldest, her craftsmen the… … in a scarcely less degree it fared with Florence and Siena, and other independent cities of Italy,which vied with one another not only in power, but much more in beauty and in the love borne them by their citizens. And to-daytheir charm makes them the resort ofpeople of taste and refinement, long…
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