Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Plan for a Boulevard to Connect the North and South Sides of the River on Michigan Avenue and Pine Street
The rights of pedestrians cannot be ignored. In Chicago great crowds of people are daily concentrated within streets congested by their numbers. Thousands are hourly dis charged from surface cars and elevated trains into the district known as the loop. At some time or other two millions of people are drawn into this loop, brought together by the varying needs of humanity business and social. In this section are the great retail shops, the hotels, the theaters, the newspaper offices, the sky-scraping Office buildings, some Of the latter Sheltering ten thousand people in their daily vocations, and Visited each twenty-four hours by as many more. And always present is the traffic on wheels - the street cars, the trucks, the delivery wagons, the carriages of the pleasure seekers, and those most essential vehicles, the ambulances, the police wagons, and the fire apparatus. The walking population of Chicago is the greatest of all, and no plan which fails to provide for its comfort and-safety Should be considered.
Congestion in the heart of Chicago could be relieved if certain streets were very much widened and improved. It is clear, however, that none of the streets in the district bounded by Van Buren Street, Michigan Avenue, and the river can ever be appreciably broadened. Throughout this section the cost of land and buildings is prohibitive; the damage to great industries would be enormous.
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