• The Chicago plan was a monetary and banking reform program suggested in the wake of the Great Depression by a group of University of Chicago economists...
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    The Burnham Plan is a popular name for the 1909 Plan of Chicago coauthored by Daniel Burnham and Edward H. Bennett and published in 1909. It recommended...
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    urban planning and architecture, such as the Chicago School, the development of the City Beautiful movement, and the steel-framed skyscraper. Chicago is...
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  • The Chicago Plan Commission is a commission implemented to promote the Plan of Chicago, often called the Burnham Plan. After official presentation of...
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  • architect-engineer Santiago Calatrava and Chicago developer Christopher T. Carley of the Fordham Company. On March 16, 2006, the Chicago Plan Commission unanimously approved...
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  • The Chicago 21 Plan was a comprehensive development plan released in 1973 intended to revitalize the areas surrounding the Chicago Loop, Chicago's central...
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  • The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) (est. 2005) is a metropolitan planning organization (MPO) responsible for comprehensive regional transportation...
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  • The Chicago Cultural Plan is a series of documents intended to identify the City's needs in the cultural sphere, and make proposals for organised development...
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    The Chicago "L" (short for "elevated") is the rapid transit system serving the city of Chicago and some of its surrounding suburbs in the U.S. state of...
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  • Chicago Bears Stadium is a planned fixed roof stadium to be constructed on the Museum Campus in Chicago, Illinois and will be the home of the Chicago...
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    Skyneedle, nor does it include projects that were not approved by the Chicago Plan Commission such as the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and Residence Tower. 530...
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    and 1935. As a supporter of the Chicago plan proposed by economist Irving Fisher and others at the University of Chicago, Cutting was among a handful of...
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  • Loyola University Chicago (Loyola or LUC) is a private Jesuit research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1870 by the Society of...
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    Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning in specific contexts, is a technical and political process...
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  • The Chicago Central Area Transit Plan, generally referred to as the Chicago Central Area Transit Project (CCATP) in the 1970s, was an extensive study...
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    roles in the creation of master plans for the development of a number of cities, including the Plan of Chicago, and plans for Manila, Baguio and downtown...
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    a group of economists, including Irving Fisher, under the so-called "Chicago plan" as a response to the Great Depression. Currently, no country in the...
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    Forever Change the Chicago Skyline". Curbed Chicago. Retrieved October 11, 2015. Kamin, Blair (November 19, 2015). "Chicago Plan Commission approves...
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    Chicago had created a perceived need to reform the morality of the city among some of the elites. Burnham's greatest achievement was the Chicago plan...
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    American Numbering Plan for the city of Chicago, including downtown, the Chicago Loop, and its immediate environs. The numbering plan area is completely...
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    The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago. The Cubs compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member of the National...
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    Barack Obama Presidential Center (category Museums in Chicago)
    The Barack Obama Presidential Center is a planned museum, library, and education project in Chicago to commemorate the presidency of Barack Obama, the...
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    city-wide Plan of Chicago in 1909. On December 25, 1858, the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad opened as far as Van Buren Street in Chicago. It built...
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  • preservation of the lakefront. Friends of the Parks, a Chicago-area preservation organization, opposed the plan, citing a ban on development on the land proposed...
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    Charles H. Wacker (category Businesspeople from Chicago)
    general committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and in 1909 was appointed chairman of the Chicago Plan Commission by Mayor Fred A. Busse. As commission...
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  • The Chicago Climate Action Plan (CCAP) is Chicago's climate change mitigation and adaptation strategy that was adopted in September 2008. The CCAP has...
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    The Tunnel and Reservoir Plan (abbreviated TARP and more commonly known as the Deep Tunnel Project or the Chicago Deep Tunnel) is a large civil engineering...
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    public university education in Chicago, the university made plans to create a permanent degree-granting campus in Chicago. Students at CUD generally needed...
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    South Chicago, formerly known as Ainsworth, is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago, Illinois. This chevron-shaped community is one of Chicago's 16 lakefront...
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  • The Chicago school of economics is a neoclassical school of economic thought associated with the work of the faculty at the University of Chicago, some...
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