The Coolidge examiner., 1933-06-02
WHAT CHICAGO
HAS TO EXHIBIT
Manifold Attractions of the
Exposition City.

OF 1933-the gigantic fair depicting
q century of progress.
Chicago Is vibrant, an intense gi-
ant among cities, dynamic with the
spirit Of growing youth. Its resi-
dents are confident Of its destiny.
The forces or nature and the
paths OF man, which mold the state
OF Illinois, center in Chicago. These
national roads of earth, water, and
air converge. In a century Il has
grown from a frontier stockade in
q swamp TO fourth place among
world cities.
The traveller away from Chicago
is always told about his city.
Chance acquaintances, from Kan
chatka to TERRA del Fuego, ex-
claim: $50 you have lived in Chi
cago without being shot!" and du-
biously feels his vest TO see IL It
is bullet-proof
Chicago is pictured as a wicked,
turbulent city, wilder West than
the movies ever staged; yet the
percentage Of crime is lower than
that Of many cities with a more
righteous reputation. Its crime and
gunmen, while not to be smiled at
as playful diversions, are no more
representative Of the city, or of any
other city, than the ejecting of a
stray disturber Is the story of con-
vention's deliberations They are
surface growing pains Of a lusty
young city. Whatever happens in
Chicago has, In newspaper parlance,
news value" and the sensational
and bizarre are remembered after
the serious and prosaic are forgotten.
Chicago lacks the glamour of age;
II has no ancient ruins nor even
time stained buildings. A cross
stands where Marquette landed, the
first white man 10 cross the portage
between the lake and river; but that
was only 2GO years ago. OF those
buildings that stood on downtown
LaSalle street 81 years ago, only
one now remains.
Growth in Century.
The white population around Fort
Dearborn was massacred on August
15. 1872 In 1888 Chicago was a
town covering two and one-half
square miles. The first steamboat
and the first Sunday school had ar
rived the previous year. On March
4, 1887, it had 1000 inhabitants and
was incorporated as a city with ten
and one-half square miles. 1t was
swept by fire on october 8, 1871. To-
day IL spreads over 210 square miles.
with more than 3,350,O00 inhabit-
ants. ChicagO's yesterdays are the
boyhood of its men today.
Standing on the portico Of the
Field Museum Of Natural History,
one gazes on pinnacled city
stretching into the distance. II rises
higher with the weeks. In front is
a green park-only few years ago
a debris-strewn beach with a rail-
road on wooden trestles-cut by
broad driveways, lagoons, and Is
lands, and spotted with the ornate
structure of the Art institute, Shedd
aquarium, Adler planetarium, Buck
ingham fountain and the peristyles
and pylons of boulevard entrances.
on the other side Of the museum is
a stadium rivaling those Of ancient
Greece.
Boulevards, over land reclaimed
from Lake Michigan to give the city
a front yard, stretch TO the north
and to the south. The Museum of
Science and Industry, founded by
Julius Rosenwald, occupies the re-
built Fine Arts building Of the
Worlds fair held in 1893, admittedly
one of the worlds finest pieces OF
architecture.
Miles of broad roads and prom
enades skirt the water, with its su-
perb beaches backed by green parks,
which afford facilities for rest and
recreation enjoyed by few cities.
With more than a hundred parks
and Fairgrounds, more than two
hundred public and private golf
courses, and miles of forest pre-
serve, all Chicago can enjoy the
fresh air; while the lake, with its
unlimited bathing beaches, boating
and yacht clubs. provides unusual
aquatic diversion.
Some years ago Chicago began to
outgrow itself. and the Chicago plan
for a City beautiful was adopted.
New streets have been cut and old
ones widened at stupendous cost.
The Chicago river was unkinked as
part of the developing waterway to
the gulf.
A distinctive style of architecture,
to which has been given the name
Twentieth Century American" has
developed here. The city restricts
the primary height of buildings to
264 feet, but towers comprising not
more than one-sixth the bulk of the
building may soar to the clouds.
Bioness Due to Location.
On a part of the near North side,
where only a generation ago Cap
tain Streeter's schooner, stranded on
a sand bar, was the only habitation,