The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-06-02
WHAT CHICAGO
HAS TO EXHIBIT
Manifold Attractions of the
Exposition City.

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Prepared by National Geographic Society.
Washington. ID. C.--wNU Service.
| HICAGO will be host this sum-
mer to hundreds of thousands
~ Of Americans who will go to
witness the city's spectacle Of
1933-the gigantic fair depicting a
century of progress.
Chicago Is vibrant, an intense giant
among cities, dynamic with the spirit
of growing youth. Its residents are
confident of it's destiny.
The forces of nature and the paths
Of man, which mold the state of Illi-
nois, center in Chicago. There nation.
al roads of earth, water, and air con-
verge. In century it has grown from
a frontier stockade In a swamp to
fourth place among world cities.
The traveller away from Chicago Is
always told about his city. Chance ac-
quaintances, from Kamchatka to Tier
IA del Fuego, exclaim: $50 you have
lived in Chicago without being shot I"
and obviously feel his vest to see If 1t
is bullet-proof.
Chicago is pictured as a wicked,
turbulent city, wilder West than the
movies ever staged; yet the percent
age Of crime is lower than that Of
many cities with more righteous rep
utation. Its crime and gunner, while
not to be smiled at as playful diver
sions, are no more representative Of
the city, or of any other city, than the
ejecting Of a stray disturber is the
story of conventions 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 seri-
Gus and prosaic are forgotten.
Chicago lacks the glamour of age !;
it has no ancient ruins nor even time
stained buildings. A cross stands
where Marquette landed, the first
white man to cross the portage be-
tween lake and river; but that was
only 260 years ago. OF those build
| ings that stood on downtown LaSalle
street 81 years ago, only one now re-
mains.
Growth Of a Century.
The white population around Fort
Dearborn was massacred on August
Is, 1912. In 1888 Chicago was town
covering two and one-half square
miles. The first steamboat and the
first Sunday school had arrived the
previous year. On March 4, 1887, it
had 1000 inhabitants and was incor-
porated as a city with ten and one
half square miles. 1t was swept by
fire on October 8, 1871. Today 1t
spreads over 210 square miles, with
more than 3,35O,OOO inhabitants. Chi
cago's yesterdays are the boyheod Of
| its men today.
Standing on the portico Of the Field
Museum Of Natural History, one
gazes on a pinnacled city stretching
into the distance. 1t rises higher with
the weeks. In front is green park
only few years ago debris-strewn
beach with railroad on wooden tres
tles-cut by broad driveways, lagoons.
and islands and spotted with the or
nate structure Of the Art institute,
Shedd aquarium, Adler planetarium,
Buckingham fountain and the peri
styles and pylons Of boulevard en-
frances. 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 Ros-
enwald, occupies the rebuilt Fine Arts
building of the Worlds Fair held in
1893, admittedly one of the worlds fin
est pieces of architecture.
Miles of broad roads and prom
enades skirt the water, with its superb
beaches backed by green parks, which
afford facilities for rest and recrea-
ton enjoyed by few cities. With more
than a hundred parks and play
grounds, more than two hundred pub
lie and private golf courses, and miles
of forest preserve, all Chicago can en-
Joy fresh air; while the lake, with
it's unlimited bathing beaches, boat
ing 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 build
ing may soar to the clouds.
Bigness Due to Location.
On a part of the near North side,
where only a generation ago Captain
Streeter's schooner, stranded on
sand bar, was the only habitatiOn,
Gold Coast district has risen on land
which then was lake-towering hotels
and apartments. factories and ware
houses, and, until three years ago one
Of the largest commercial buildings in
the world, the American Furniture
Mart. Another. the Merchandise Mart,
now Is larger.
A pride In bigness, or even the
home needs of Chicago, do not pro-
duce these. The city's central loca-
ton creates them. Chicago has no.
tel with 1900 rooms. and one Of the
largest indoor sports stadiums. Con-
yenient location brings a million Wis
itors to national conventions each
year. The booster who delights in