Congress of the Confederation, 31. Congress Street, should be developed as central axis of city, 113; width of, 114; its relation to Grant Park, 115. Cook County, creates outer belt Commission, 44; County building part of the civic center group, 116; attempt to organize a forest-preserve district, 132; limited powers of, 134; taxation in, 152. Courtland, 40. Courts, building for, 116. Crerar, John, endows Crerar Library, 109. Crerar Library, 108, 114, 120. Crown Point, 40. Calumet Feeder, 55. Calumet River, importance of harbor, 57. Canal Street, location of railway stations on, 107; widening of, 113. Cathedral, the, embodied the highest expression of civic art, 13. Cedar Lake, 40. Cemeteries, Roman, 12; characteristics of modern, 36. _Century Magazine_, quoted, 21, (note). Charles River, Mass., improvement of, 49. Charleston, 9. Chicago Avenue, traffic on, 116, 117. Chicago Heights, 40. Chicago Ridge, 41. Chicago River, forests along, 56; improvement of, 97; treatment of the banks, 116. Chicago University, 51, 120, 121. China, opening of, 33. Christianity, unifying force of, 31. Churches, usually not architecturally important, 36. City, the, formless growth of neither economical nor satisfactory, 1; overcrowding and congestion of traffic paralyzes vital functions of, 1; complicated problems of not beyond control of public sentiment, 1; efforts to bring about best conditions of life in, 1; parks the lungs of, 12; strain of life in, 32; opportunities for the ambitious, 33; needs adequate circulation and sufficient park area, 80; needs created by increase in population, 81; reasons for growth of population, 81; general character of, 82, 87. D Danube, the, 110, 116. Darmstadt, 20. Defense, governing motive in location of cities, 9. De Kalb, 40, 47. Department of State, facilitates work on plan of Chicago, 7. Des Plaines River, scenery along, 40; beauty of, 55, 90, 91. _Der Stadteban_, magazine, 21, (note). Dewey, Stoddard, on foreign money spent in Paris, 19. Diagonals necessity for, 84; function of, 91; those proposed for Chicago, 92. Diodorus, his description of Babylon, 10. District of Columbia, L’Enfant plan extended over the entire District, 25; plan of, 91. (See also Washington, D. C.) Douglas Park, 44. Drainage Canal, 55; cost of, 120. Dresden, 20, 110, 116. Driveways, extent of proposed, 58. Dundee, 40. Du Page County, 55. Du Page River, 40. E Eagle Lake, 40. Education, unifying force of in the Northwest, 32. Edwards, Percy J., his history of London street improvements, 21, (note). Egypt, defended by deserts, 10; pyramids and temples of, 10. Electric railways bind outlying towns to central city, 42; promote neighborliness, 42. Elgin, 40.