July 5, 1915 – The South Park Commission
places plans for the improvement of Grant Park on exhibit in Blackwell Hall at
the Art Institute of Chicago. The
exhibit includes a model of the peristyle, designed by Edward H. Bennett, that
will stand in the northwest corner of the park at the corner of Randolph Street
and Michigan Avenue. Other plans include
a pair of pylons sixty feet tall to mark the entrance to the park and a line of
trees from Randolph Street to Twelfth Street with a gravel walk 30 feet wide
beside them. J. F. Foster,
superintendent of the South Park Commissioners, says that when the work is completed
Grant Park “will be a beauty spot unsurpassed by any of the formal gardens in
the United States and equaled only by the public gardens of Italy.” [Chicago
Tribune, July 4, 1915] One of the great pylons, part of the 1915 plan, that today greets visitors to the park is pictured above. Note the "Y" symbol in its center panel.
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