Show CIl caso s parks and parkway the parks and parkways park ways of chicago are of a type the outgrowth of her natural landscape conditions and the characteristics acte of her people between the great lake on the east and t ie prairie main land on the west is a low swampy tract diversified by sand ridges washed up by the storm waves and shifted about by the winds the lake in some places encroaches upon the land and at other points extends the shore by the forming of sand bars upon ench a site was founded chicago and upon such a soil has she built her parks and boulevards the wide streets were rescued as rapidly as possible from their primitive condition of alternate mud and dust graded and laid with the most approved forms of pavement the fondness of the people for riding and driving that led them at an early day to provide so amply for public ways caused the feature of fine driveways to be prominent when the were to be made harpers weekly |