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Plan of Chicago
Promotional Campaign (West Side Highway), late 1920s
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This glass lantern slide, prepared as part of a promotional campaign for the
Plan of Chicago
depicts how Congress Street might become what the planners called the east-west "Axis of Chicago," extending from Grant Park to the Civic Center and then to the western border of the city. It is possible to date this image with relative precision since Buckingham Fountain (1927) is visible, but the Shedd Aquarium (1929) has not yet been erected.
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