Grant Park: The Evolution of Chicago's Front Yard

List of Illustrations

ix Illustrations Map of Chicago and additions, 1836 5 Map of the City of Chicago, Illinois, 1855 6 Illinois Central freight depot and grain elevators, 1858 11 Lake Park, 1850s 13 Democratic National Amphitheatre 17 Lincoln funeral train at Chicago 20 Lincoln funeral arch, Lake Park 21 Destruction of Chicago by fire 28 Temporary businesses, Lake Park 29 Interstate Industrial Exposition, Chicago, 1877 34 Leland Hotel and Lake Park, 1880s 54 Illinois Central depot, Chicago, ca. 1919 59 Rosenberg Fountain 60 Art Institute 67 Kemeys’ lions, Art Institute 69 Lowering of modified ICRR tracks on lakefront 74 View north on Michigan Avenue 77 Site of Grant Park, 1902 78 Logan monument 80 Olmsted Brothers’ model for the proposed lakefront 85 Illustrations x Plan of Chicago (1909) 88 U.S. Army tournament, 1910 94–95 International Aviation Meet, Chicago, 1911 96–97 Early balustrade along North Michigan Avenue, 1914 99 Lakefront, ca. 1917 100 Chicago Band Association membership form, ca. 1916 103 Field Museum of Natural History 105 New Michigan Avenue bridge 108 Buckingham Fountain 114 Congress Plaza, ca. 1931 116 A Century of Progress, 1933–34 125 Grant Park concert 129 Benny Goodman performing at the Grant Park band shell, 1941 131 Tennis instruction in Grant Park 132 View taken from Stevens Hotel, 1941 135 Michigan Avenue and Randolph Street with peristyle 138 Grant Park underground garage 139 Congress Street entrance, 1956 141 Queen Elizabeth II, July 6, 1959 143 Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., Al Raby, and Bernard Lee, Grant Park, 1966 152 National Guard in Grant Park, 1968 153 Chicago police clearing protesters from Grant Park, 1968 155 Petrillo band shell, 1997 163 Construction of platform for papal Mass, 1979 165 Pope John Paul II Mass, October 5, 1979 165 Daley Bicentennial Plaza under construction, 1976 170 Millennium Park 179 Crown Fountain 184 Renzo Piano’s addition to the Art Institute of Chicago 188 Chicago from the Adler Planetarium 189 ...