June 27, 1965 – Ira Bach, the Chicago Plan
Commissioner, predicts that the Chicago River in the downtown area will be
transformed into “one of the world’s most beautiful waterways in the next 10
years.” [Chicago Tribune, June 28, 1965]
He only missed the mark by forty years.
“The new Pioneer Court dedicated . . . by the Equitable Life Assurance
Society of the United States and the Tribune company, is the latest exquisite
example of how the river bank can be beautified by an unusual development,”
Bach said. “With other major riverbank
construction programs on the planning boards, other plazas and landscaped open
spaces can be expected to be created along the river in the next decade.” By the end of this year Bach’s prediction
will, for the most part, have come true as the 100 million dollar Riverwalk
opens the entire south side of the river from Lake Michigan to Lake Street.
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