April 12, 1896 – The Chicago Daily Tribune reports that Sheridan Road has been improved
from Lincoln Park to Edgewater. Another
section of the road, from Evanston to Fort Sheridan, also has been
completed. There is a two-mile stretch
through Rogers Park that has been laid out, but which still is “simply a sandy,
dusty street, which no one cares to travel on.”
[Chicago Daily Tribune, April 12,
1896] The article urges voters of
Rogers Park to vote for the establishment of a North Shore Park District that
will take charge of the part of Rogers Park east of Ridge Avenue. Establishment of such a board in the
election, to be held in the upcoming week, would be positive, the paper asserts,
allowing a representative body to improve Sheridan Road and other roads like
it, perhaps even establishing a park on the lake shore. The new Sheridan Road ended at the Fort Sheridan tower which at the time was less than ten years old itself. The tower is pictured in 1900 in the above photo.
April 12, 1955 -- The Chicago Daily Tribune reports that "the world's greatest exposition center" was proposed at a meeting the previous evening at the first civic meeting that Richard J. Daley attended since his election on April 5. Daley saiys of the $34 million project, "This is one of those bold, imaginative, and comprehensive projects needed for the continued progress of Chicago." The new exposition center will be located at Twenty-Second Street and the lakefront in approximately the same location that the Century of Progress World's Fair was held in the summers of 1933 and 1934. Ralph H. Burke of Ralph H. Burke, Inc., who worked on the project with the architectural firm of Holabird, Root & Burgee, estimates that the facility will produce an income of $2.6 million the year it opens. "It will not only put Chicago in front, but will pay its way while doing it," Burke says. [Chicago Daily Tribune, April 12, 1955]
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