June 6, 1928 – President Edward J. Kelly of
the South Park Board announces that a gift of $500,000 from the former
vice-president of Sears, Roebuck and Co., Max Adler, will be used for
construction of a planetarium on an island east of the Field Museum. “In giving the planetarium to Chicago,” Adler
says, “I have a three-fold conception:
Scientific, popular and philosophical.
One is to further the progress of science. The second is to enable the people to observe
the action of the heavenly bodies as heretofore only astronomers have been able
to do. The third is to emphasize that
all mankind, rich and poor, powerful and weak, as well as all nations, here and
abroad, constitute part of one universe, and that under the great celestial firmament
there is no division or cleavage, but rather interdependence and unity.” [Chicago Daily Tribune, June 7, 1928]
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