January 7, 1955 – The Art Institute of Chicago
goes to Circuit Court seeking to change the definition of a word – monument. In 1905 a wealthy Chicago lumber man,
Benjamin Ferguson died, with his will providing for a million-dollar trust fund
to be used to beautify the city’s parks with monuments. In the ensuing fifty years the original trust
fund has generated a million dollars in interest income, and the institute
wants to use the money to construct an addition that would stand just north of
the original 1893 building, fronting on Monroe Street. The Art Institute has already filed a suit
similar to this one back in 1933, but because the plans for the building have
changed as well as its location it’s back to court again for the art folks and
their legal representatives. The suit
that the Art Institute files names the attorney general of Illinois, Latham
Castle, as the defendant. Castle is the
member of the fund’s trustees representing the public.
Also on this date from an earlier blog . . .
January 7, 1929 -- With the application for the necessary construction permits pending in the war department, the U. S. Senate and the House of Representatives pass identical bills granting consent to the Lincoln and South Park Boards to build an outer drive link bridge at the mouth of the Chicago River. It would be close to a decade before the Lake Shore Drive bridge would be completed, but the process had begun. Look just to the left of the west end of Navy Pier in the photo below and you can see what the shoreline at the mouth of the river looked like before the Roosevelt Bridge was completed in 1938.
January 7, 1929 -- With the application for the necessary construction permits pending in the war department, the U. S. Senate and the House of Representatives pass identical bills granting consent to the Lincoln and South Park Boards to build an outer drive link bridge at the mouth of the Chicago River. It would be close to a decade before the Lake Shore Drive bridge would be completed, but the process had begun. Look just to the left of the west end of Navy Pier in the photo below and you can see what the shoreline at the mouth of the river looked like before the Roosevelt Bridge was completed in 1938.
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The Outer Drive Bridge was dedicated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on October 5, 1937.
The bridge was never known as "the Roosevelt Bridge."
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