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Title: Chicago, a history and forecast
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Harper, William Hudson, 1857- ed Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry Quaife, Milo Milton, 1880-1959 McIlvaine, Mabel
Subjects: Chicago (Ill.) -- Description and travel Chicago (Ill.) -- History
Publisher: (Chicago) The Chicago association of commerce
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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tions I would like to see multi-plied and scattered throughout our city that every young manand woman might have opportunity to develop physically andsocially, and, if so disposed, on lines musical and dramatic. I hope to live to see the Midway surrounded by the imposingstructures of the University of Chicago and fitly decorated withsculptural expression of the highest ideals of an ambitious andaspiring citizenry. But whatever we suggest or dream is to be so greatly surpassedin the next half century that it seems almost idle to record ourhopes. How little did those stout-hearted men of 1871 foreseethe Chicago of today. We can but imitate them, each doing ashonestly as he can the little job assigned him; out of our unitedefforts will develop the Chicago of the future, the true City ofDestiny. Arts Great Storehouse Distinguished among institutions of its class, whetherin the new world or among the more classic centers of artin the old, is the Art Institute of Chicago, which requires 145
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146 and deserves the publics continued appreciation and in-creased support if the fine arts shall flourish in this cityas its ideals demand. The Institute is a popular pos-session in two senses—it has the support of over 13,000members, and last year over 1,000,000 people visitedits galleries. The Institute is now asking for the modestsum of $1,000,000 to carry on and develop the work ofone of Chicagos major activities and nearly one-third ofthis sum has already been subscribed. The Art Instituteis the recognized leader and dominant factor in Chicagosart world, and its call to the public to aid in financing itsnecessary expenditure and expansion is the result ofits position and growth. It faces a deficit in operatingincome and at the same time faces the need for expansionthat is nothing less than compulsory. One of the citysmost famous cultural institutions receives from but apart of the public support in entrance fees, while a smallSouth Park tax is but one-third or less of requirem

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