City planning -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century
Senate Park Commission, the, (Daniel H. Burnham, Charles Follin
McKim, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Frederick Law Olmstead, Jr.)
makes plan for park system of the District of Columbia, 25;
opposition to plan of, 25;
members of the commission also planners of World’s Columbian
Exposition, 25.
Semiramis, queen of Babylon, the first city builder, 10.
Shaw, Albert, as to cost of delays in London planning, 21.
Shade, advantages of in city, 84.
Shelby, 40.
Sherman Farm, 56.
Sheridan Road, 39 (note), 57.
Sidewalks, first in Paris built by Napoleon I., 17.
Sienna, beauty and power of, 13.
Sistine Madonna, 112.
Slavery excluded from the North West territory, 31.
Slums of Chicago, 106, 129.
Smith, Edward R., on the transformation of Paris, 18.
Smoke, 71, 77, 112.
Sorbonne, the, Paris, 114.
South Chicago, 51, 52, 53.
South Park Commissioners suggest improvement of Lake Front, 6;
meeting of on Lake Front improvements, 6;
arrangement for Grant park, 114, 134.
South Parks, expansion of, 7, 44.
Special Park Commission, plan of Metropolitan Park system, 7, 44;
report of, 46.
Spirit of Chicago, the, 8.
Sport Park at Stockholm, 52.
Spring Forest, 55.
Square of the Innocents, Paris, transformation of, 93.
St. Charles, 40.
St. Louis, plan for improvement of, 28.
St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, 21.
St. Paul, Minn., improvement of, 28.
St. Peter’s Cathedral, Rome, 116.
Statues, location of, 86.
Stëubben, German city-builder, 21 (note).
Stockholm, yachting at, 52.
Stony Creek, 55.
Street plan of Chicago, cost of, 123.
Streets, the desirable width of, 83;
regulation of traffic on, 88.
Submerged lands granted for park purposes, 44.
Suburban highways, commission for, 39.
Suburbs, apt to be ugly and squalid, 35;
when attractive, 34;
connections among, 38;
residents of concerned with city communication, 41;
railway stations in, 77.
Summit, 55.
Sweden, yachting of, 52.
Swimming, exhibition of at Stockholm, 52.
Sycamore, 40.
T
Taxation, limitations on power of, 129, 151.
Terminal railway passenger stations in Chicago, 68.
Territory Northwest of the Ohio River, conquered by Virginia
troops, 31;
retained as first territorial acquisition, 31;
diplomacy, 31;
endowed with freedom and popular education, 31.
Thames, the, London, the embankment a part of Wren’s plan, 21 (note);
use of the river on Sunday, 48, 51;
treatment of the banks, 110.
Thatchers Park, 55.
Thoroughfares, improvement of, 37.
Tigris River, 10.
Town-planning in England, 21, 34, 128.
Townships, powers of in suburban development, 130.
Trajan’s Forum in Rome, cost of, 13.
Transportation system for Chicago, suggested, 61-76;
legislation necessary for, 139.
Treaty of 1783, secures the Northwest, 31.
Trees along streets, 84.
Tuileries, gardens of the, 15.
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