The grouping of railway passenger terminals along Canal and Twelfth streets will add another element of good order, convenience, and architectural dignity; for it is not to be conceived that as the railroads replace their present inadequate structures the new buildings will be less important or less dignified than those which have been built in other cities. It is to be supposed rather that the greatest railway center in the world will be able to command terminal stations equal in every respect to any that have been constructed elsewhere. [Illustration: CXXVII. CHICAGO. BIRD’S-EYE VIEW AT NIGHT OF GRANT PARK, THE FAÇADE OF THE CITY, THE PROPOSED HARBOR, AND THE LAGOONS OF THE PROPOSED PARK ON THE SOUTH SHORE. Painted for the Commercial Club by Jules Guerin. COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY COMMERCIAL CLUB OF CHICAGO] [Illustration: CXXVIII. CHICAGO. PROPOSED PLAZA ON MICHIGAN AVENUE WEST OF THE FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY IN GRANT PARK, LOOKING EAST FROM THE CORNER OF JACKSON BOULEVARD. Painted for the Commercial Club by Jules Guerin. COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY COMMERCIAL CLUB OF CHICAGO ] [Illustration: CXXIX. CHICAGO. THE BUSINESS CENTER OF THE CITY, WITHIN THE FIRST CIRCUIT BOULEVARD, SHOWING THE PROPOSED GRAND EAST-AND-WEST AXIS AND ITS RELATION TO GRANT PARK AND THE YACHT HARBOR; THE RAILWAY TERMINALS SCHEMES ON THE SOUTH AND WEST SIDES, AND THE CIVIC CENTER. COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY THE COMMERCIAL CLUB OF CHICAGO ] [Illustration: CXXX. CHICAGO. PLAN OF THE PROPOSED GROUP OF MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS OR CIVIC CENTER, AT THE INTERSECTION OF CONGRESS AND HALSTED STREETS. This plan indicates a possible orderly and harmonious arrangement of public buildings grouped for the purpose of administration, near the center of population. The central building is planned not only to dominate the place in front of it, but also to mark the center of the city from afar, and it is in part a monument to the spirit of civic unity. COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY COMMERCIAL CLUB OF CHICAGO ] [Illustration: CXXXI. ELEVATION SHOWING THE GROUP OF BUILDINGS CONSTITUTING THE PROPOSED CIVIC CENTER From drawing by F. Janin. ] [Illustration: CXXXII. CHICAGO. VIEW, LOOKING WEST, OF THE PROPOSED CIVIC CENTER PLAZA AND BUILDINGS, SHOWING IT AS THE CENTER OF THE SYSTEM OF ARTERIES OF CIRCULATION AND OF THE SURROUNDING COUNTRY. Painted for the Commercial Club by Jules Guerin. COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY THE COMMERCIAL CLUB OF CHICAGO ]