It remains only to consider the official agencies which are most desirable and most available for the effective working out of the Plan. As a matter of theory, the best results could be achieved through a consolidation of the city and county governments, or by placing the entire metropolitan district, which constitutes the real city of Chicago, under a unified municipal administration, endowed with broad powers of local self-government, including the power to levy taxes and incur indebtedness. Practically, however, the enlargement of the powers of these two governing bodies—the city and the county—within the limits permitted by the present constitution, is probably the most available method of attaining desirable results. As a means of co-ordinating the two it is respectfully suggested that a permanent Commission on City and County Plan should be created by joint resolution or ordinance of the city council and the county board. This commission should contain appropriate representation for each body, and it should be charged with the duty of reporting to each its recommendations as to all matters falling within the general scope of a city and county Plan. It might well be ordained by the city council that no public buildings should be hereafter located or erected, and that no parks should be acquired and no streets or boulevards be opened, without a report from the commission or the city members thereof. The commission might be composed entirely of city and county officials, or might contain some representation of those who are not public officials but who are particularly interested in and particularly qualified for its work. The city board of local improvements and the present park boards or any future consolidated park board should be directly represented. Whether the functions of the Commissions on Municipal Art and Small Parks should in the interest of simplification and efficiency be transferred to such a Commission on City and County Plan might be profitably considered. While such an advisory commission would be entirely extra-legal, it would be of distinct service in securing the harmonious development of a single comprehensive Plan for the city of Chicago and its environs. FOOTNOTES: [27] Freund on Police Power, sec. 182, note 5. [28] Freund on Police Power, sec. 181, note 50. [29] Freund on Police Power, sec. 181, note 50. [30] Statutes at Large, vol. 102, p. 730; see also subsequent Acts shown in Chitty’s Statutes, vol. 8, “Metropolis” p. 253, and vol. 10, “Public Health” p. 53. [31] House Document No. 288, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Dec. 29, 1903, pp. 62 and 63, and citations there made from _L’Economiste Français_. [32] _City of Belleville_ v. _Turnpike Co._, 234 Ill. 428, 437; _City of Chicago_ v. _Gunning System_, 214 Ill. 628, 635. [33] 22 Amer. & Eng. Encyc. of Law, 916.