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The Plan of Chicago
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| Chicago in 1909 |
| Planning Before the Plan |
| Antecedents and Inspirations |
| The City the Planners Saw |
| The Plan of Chicago |
| The Plan Comes Together |
| Creating the Plan |
| Reading the Plan |
| A Living Document |
| Promotion |
| Implementation |
| Heritage |
Chicago reformers at the time of the Plan faced tough obstacles in both the city's actualities and its reputation.
Grand March at Bathhouse John's Ball
A cartoon by John T. McCutcheon in the Chicago Tribune , 1908.
See also: Gray Wolves; Machine Politics
Robert Harland's The Vice Bondage of a Great City (1912) typified early twentieth-century portrayals of Chicago as riddled with vice. The book's refrain, "Chicago is the Wickedest City in the World," punctuates references to the specific temptations that await the innocent visitor.
See also: Chicago Crime Commission
WCTU Temperance Parade, September 26, 1908
In 1908 the Cook County Woman's Christian Temperance Union organized a "dry" parade in Chicago that drew 6,000 marchers, according to the Chicago Record Herald. Under the campaign slogan "Let Illinois Go Dry," union leaders hoped to gain public support for the state's new local option law. A year after passage, the legislation had stimulated many downstate communities to prohibit the sale of liquor but found little support in Chicago's precincts.
See also: Prohibition and Temperance
Carter Harrison Campaign Poster, 1911
Carter Harrison II, like his more famous father, served five two-year terms as mayor of Chicago, from 1897 to 1905, and then from 1911 to 1915. Historian Edward Kantowicz calls Harrison a "reform boss" for his combination of machine election politics and a reform agenda.
See also: Mayors
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