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Plan to straighten Chicago River

Plan to straighten Chicago River


Title	Plan to straighten Chicago River
Description	Caption: "Plan to straighten South Branch of Chicago River." From text: "By straightening the river, as the city council has very recently proposed to do, the land lying between Clark Street and the present river channel would be capable of harmonious development along normal rectangular lines.... Briefly, this report recommends the straightening of the Chicago River between Polk Street and Sixteenth Street…."
Date	1921
Type	Maps
Identifier	chicagohistoryfo00harp_raw_0188.jp2
Source	http://www.archive.org/stream/chicagohistoryfo00harp#page/182/mode/1up
Physical Location	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Format	image/jp2
Subject	City planning
Coverage-Spatial	The Loop (Chicago, Ill.) Near South Side (Chicago, Ill.) Chicago River (Ill.)
Date of Content	1920-1929
Publisher	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; University of Illinois at Chicago
Rights	Images in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu.
Collection	Picture Chicago
Book Title	Chicago, a history and forecast
Author of the Book	Harper, William Hudson, 1857-
Link to the Full-Text	http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicagohistoryfo00harp

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