The Art Institute, already located in Grant Park, now occupies a site, a portion of which is needed for the widening of Michigan Avenue; and at the same time the increase in the collections will soon necessitate a larger structure than the one now in use.[25] When the new gallery and school shall be built, the location should occupy the same relative position north of the Field Museum that is proposed for the library group on the south. The plan shows a gallery of the fine arts, together with a school of art, comprising lecture halls, exhibition rooms, ateliers, and general administration quarters. To complete this composition would be open-air loggias and gardens, the whole group being akin to the great art museums and schools of Europe. In Boston the new art museum now under construction in the Back Bay district has been located in the midst of the most attractive surroundings, near the fine group of buildings recently erected for the Harvard Medical School, and near other educational institutions which have been established on lands reclaimed by the city in much the same manner that Grant Park has been created. In New York the large extension of the Metropolitan Art Museum in Central Park indicates clearly the growing demand for great galleries adapted for the exhibition of works of the fine arts. [Illustration: CXXIV. CHICAGO. PLAN OF GRANT PARK AND THE HARBOR, SHOWING PROPOSED ARRANGEMENT. Three main groups of buildings devoted to letters, science, and arts; meadows, playgrounds, plazas, and avenues; yacht clubs, at the water’s edge; passenger steamer landings and lagoons. From a drawing by F. Janin. COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY COMMERCIAL CLUB OF CHICAGO ] [Illustration: CXXV. CHICAGO. ELEVATION OF GRANT PARK AND HARBOR; THE EASTERN FAÇADE OF THE CITY ON MICHIGAN AVENUE, AND THE DOME OF THE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING OF THE CIVIC CENTER, LOOKING FROM LAKE MICHIGAN. Twelfth Street Congress Street Washington Street COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY COMMERCIAL CLUB OF CHICAGO] [Illustration: CXXV. CHICAGO. SECTION LOOKING NORTH, TAKEN THROUGH PROPOSED GRAND AXIS OF THE CITY, SHOWING THE CIVIC CENTER AND GRANT PARK. Halsted Street Chicago River Michigan Avenue COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY COMMERCIAL CLUB OF CHICAGO ] The assembling in Grant Park of three monumental groups so as to form one composition offers opportunity for treatment impressive and dignified in the highest degree. It is such opportunities which when properly utilized give to a city both charm and distinction, because of the satisfaction which the mind obtains in contemplating orderly architectural arrangements of great magnitude both in themselves and in relation to the city of which they thus become an integral part. On the other hand, the failure to realize such possibilities inevitably creates dissatisfaction over lost opportunities; and this feeling increases with the years and is shared by all the people.