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Identifier: chicagohistoryfor00harp (find matches)
Title: Chicago, a history and forecast
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Harper, William Hudson, 1857- ed Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry Quaife, Milo Milton, 1880-1959 McIlvaine, Mabel
Subjects: Chicago (Ill.) -- Description and travel Chicago (Ill.) -- History
Publisher: (Chicago) The Chicago association of commerce
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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te on Roose-velt Road could assemble all or most of the throughtrains of the South Side, and such a station at the southend of Grant Park offers opportunity for splendid archi-tectural effect, and the broad right of way southwardfor several miles along the lake with no grade crossingsmakes the avenue of approach to the greater Chicago oftomorrow of superior attractiveness. It should here be said that the proper method of ar-ranging for accommodation of the suburban service ofall railroads has not been worked out, but this problemcan be solved. A plan might contemplate an under-ground railroad connecting the terminals, permitting ofa direct interchance of passengers between these ter-minals on an overlapping basis and the routing of sub-urban trains so as to eliminate existing congestion. The Public Sees and Approves the Plan In such late Chicago Plan undertakings as appear inthe widening of Michigan Avenue, construction of thesplendid two-level bascule bridge and developing of the 163
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164 avenues extension to the lake shore at the water works—one of the worlds spacious city improvements and tobecome a boulevard of international distinction—theChicago public has seen initial steps in the realizationof the Plan, and a pride and confidence has been nour-ished which was begotten when with the Plans originalpromulgation its creators projected the spectacle of amagnified and be^mtified 1a!:e front from the north citylimits to Jackson Park. With fundamental features ofcommunication under execjtion like the boulevardlink and Roosevelt Road, lately Twelfth Street, thepeople the more eagerly await consideration of such,:ith a commercial h

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