Show WHAT CHICAGO HAS atas TO EXHIBIT manifold attractions of thi the exposition city prepared Pr pr by br national graphic was h region IX a WU will be host tills this sum C CHICAGO mer to hundreds hundred of thousands thousand of americans who will go to t witness the cites spectacle of 0 1033 1933 the gigantic fair depicting a t century of progress chicago Is vibrant an intense giant among cities dynamic with the spirit of growing youth its residents are an confident of its destiny the forces of nature and the paths of mm man which mold the state of illi 1111 nois center in n chicago there nation at al roads of earth water and air con verge in a century it has grown from a frontier stockade in a swamp to fourth place among world cities the traveler traT eIer away from chicago la Is always told about his city chance acquaintances quain from to aler ra del fuego exclaim so you have lived in chicago without being and dubiously feel his vest to see it if it la Is bulletproof bullet proof chicago Is pictured as a wicked turbulent city a wilder west than the movies ever staged yet the percentage of crime Is lower than that of many cities with a more righteous reputation uta tion its crime and gunmen while not to be smiled at as playful diversions are no more representative of the city or of any other city than the ejecting of it n stray disturber is the story etory of a conventions deliberations they are surface growing pains of a lusty young city whatever happens in chicago has in newspaper parlance news value and the sensational and bizarre are remembered after the serious and prosaic are forgotten chicago lacks the glamour of age it has no ancient ruins nor even time stained buildings s A cross stands where marquette landed the first white man to cross the portage between lake and river but that was only years ago of those buildings that stood on downtown lasalle street 37 years ago only one now remains growth of a century the white population around fort dearborn was massacred on august 15 1812 in 1833 chicago was a town covering two and one halt half square miles the first steamboat and the first sunday school had arrived the previous year on oa march 4 1837 it had inhabitants and was incorporated its as a city with ten and one halt square miles it was swept by fire on october 9 1871 today it spreads over square miles with more than inhabitants chi cagos yesterdays are the boyhood of its men today standing on the portico of the field museum of natural history ni story one gazes on a pinnacled city stretching into the distance it rises higher with the weeks in front Is a green park only a few years ago a debris strewn beach with a railroad on wooden trestles cut by broad driveways lagoons and islands and spotted with the ornate structure of the art institute shedd aquarium adler planetarium buckingham fountain and the per peri styles and pylons nylons of boulevard entrances tran cea on the other side of the museum Is a stadium rivaling g those of ancient greece boulevards over land reclaimed from lake michigan to give the city a front yard stretch to tile the north and to the south the museum of science and industry founded by tullus julius rosenwald occupies the rebuilt fine arts building of the worlds fair held in 1893 admittedly one of the worlds finest pieces of architecture miles of broad roads and promenades skirt the water with its superb beaches backed by green parks which afford facilities for rest and recreation enjoyed by few cities with more than a hundred parks and playgrounds more than two hundred public and private golf courso courses and miles of forest preserve all chi chicago cago can enjoy fresh air while the lake with its unlimited bathing beaches boating and yacht clubs provides unusual aquatic diversion some years ago chicago began to outgrow itself and the chicago plan for a city beautiful was adopted new streets have been cut and old ones once widened at stupendous cost the chicago river was unk inked as part of the der developing elopIng waterway to the gulf A distinctive style of architecture to which has been given the name na me twentieth century american has developed here the city restricts the primary height of buildings building to feet but towers comprising not more than one sixth the bulk of the building may soar to the clouds bigness due to location on a part of the near north side where only a generation ago captain streeters schooner stranded on a sand bar was the only habitation a gold coast district has risen on land which then was lake towering hotels and apartments factories and warehouses and until three years ago one of the largest commercial buildings in the world the american furniture mart another the merchandise mart now Is 19 larger A pride in bl bigness gness or even the home nel needs As of chicago do not produce these the cites central location creates them chicago has a hotel with rooms and one of the largest indoor sports stadiums convenient lo location catlon brings a million visitors to national conventions each year the booster who delights la in bigger also alo adds that it his hag a plebeian gat gas tank which could be dropped like a candle snuffer over the tha 33 28 story times building in new york it Is a city of contrast its ita people reflect it make the throbbing city theirs scholars mix in politics and business men are artists the city ta Is the same structural panorama in the corridor between chicago and the indiana line more industry and high pressure recreation are mixed than in tiny any similar area in the world steel mills oil refineries railroad shops foundries and factories with country clubs two race tracks and a dozen golf clubs wooing devotees to fresh air and sunshine under its pall ot of smoke smell of stock yards and hum of aggressive materialism chicago has art science music education and other factors which add to the comfort and contentment of humanity it Is illinois intensified chicago Is a musical mus acal city one of its music schools Is among the largest in america with more students than any other school of its kind the art institute gives chicago an assured place in art circles but the fact that it has more sustaining members than most similar institutions shows a cites appreciation of art great city for reading chicago reads as it bust hustles bustled les the american library association classifies it among the great reading cities of the world its public library revived by a donation from england after the lire fire circulates books a year though the number on its shelves Is smaller than that in the new york city public library or in the library of congress for completeness in their special lines and for patronage students coming tar far to consult them newberry library of humanities the crerar technical and scientific library the fine arts library the 44 X I 1 1 ta aa s a A chicago beach in summer library of architecture and the postgraduate library of the university of chicago are among the noted reference libraries of the world libraries and schools and more than all the harmony of environment have made chicago an educational center of north america attendance figures and faculty rolls ot of colleges or even a world famed name do not determine eminence in educational facilities but in studies made by the association of american universities 23 28 universities were given the highest rating anil three are in illinois northwestern Northwest ei chicago and illinois IS while no other state has more than two the university of the streets where orators always have an audience and ideas are more often bizarre than sound flourishes in chicago washington square fronting the NeN newberry berry library and the artesian bpi spring ing in washington par park have the largest attendance of these open air night schools some fine Niu museums Is there a museum or art gallery gall eryl Is a sightseers first question in a new city illinois has uch such institutions to show the passing ages several of them outstanding in their lines all of the flowers and birds that once graced the sand and marshes which now are chicago survive in the glass cases of tile the academy of science in lincoln park the state natural history museum in springfield goes back even farther A wall in one of its halls Is faced with stones starting with the age which the curator says was more than a billion years ago and rising in strata to the pleistocene age less than 1 years ago at the side of bac each b stratum are paintings of the contemporary animals which roamed the earth two of the finest E egyptian collections eions in the world are in chicago field museum of natural history allsto ry on the lake front annihilates both time and space its frozen arctic with polar dolar bears and seals and a path of cli chilly illy blue stretching to the midnight sun Is only a step from an indian jungle with rhinoceros es emerging from the marsh or a group of 0 startled queen of sheba antelope on a rocky mountain side of ethiopia they are so real that the visitor the roar of tile the city streets still echoing in his ears Is whisked into the distant lonesome wast wastes es thousands of miles from chicago glimpsing life from a for forgotten gotten past and to in unknown lands madagascar philippine north amerlean american indian chinese tibetan belane and malayan Na laYall exhibits are among the most complete in the world the collections of meteorites of jewels and the model of the moon MOOD are equally noteworthy among a million and a quarter objects in the museum marly many of them bliem are priceless but those that run can be appraised fire are valued value d at 45 housed in a 00 marble model of the te top I 1 6 Q of i ancient athens |