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").; The Fine Arts at the Fait. 104 Communications Special Events 110 The Radio and Musical Programs 113 Building 57 Sports 114 Social Science — The STinniNG Fun and Special Attractions 119 Story of Mankind's Uisi: 59 The Towering Skvride 119 American Family Exhibit 60 Enchanted Island 120 Drama in a Citv Dump 61 The Midway 121 63 Maya Temple The Streets t)f Paris 121 Indian Villages 64 Places to Shop 121 The Bendix Lama Temjile 66 The Aviation Show 122 Hollywood 122 Home Planning Groui- 67 A Livestock and Horse Show 123 Home Planning Hall 67 Goodyear Blimps 123 Brick Manufacturers' Horse 68 A Bathing Beach 123 Armco and Ferro Enam 1 House . 68 The World a Million Years Ago. .124 General Houses, Inc., Hi, use 68 Belgian Village 124 Good Housekeeping — St;austeel The Ukranian Pavilion 124 House 69 The Polish-American Pavilion ....124 Rostone Hous' 69 "Design for Living" 70 Historical Gro'p 125 Masonite House 70 The Drama of Old Fort Dearborn. .125 Lumber Iiiduslries House 70 The De S.-iible, or du Sable, Cabin. 128 "House of Tonior'-ow" 70 The .Maninette Cabin 128 Florida Troiiical House 71 Lincidn Group 128 & .1. Sloane House 72 W. Eating Places on the Grot'nds. .130 The (ilass Block IIous" 72 On the Mainland 130 Southern Cypress Manufacturers. 72 On Northerly Island 132 •Tohns-Manville 72 Crane Company 72 General Information for Visitors. 133 Kohler of KohliT 72 Official Data 143 Gas Industries Hall 72 Officers 143 7'' Executive Committee 143 The Drama of Agricii.tcke Trustees 143 Livestock and Meat Industries. ... 74 Founder Members 143 The Illinois AgricuU \ire r.uililin^'. 74 Sustaining Members 145 The International Harvester Build Committee Chairmen 145 ing 76 Architectural Commission 145 The Dairy Building 76 Staff of A Century of Progress. .145 A Poultry Show 77 State Commissions 146 149 A Fairyland of Flowers 78 List of Fair Exhil)itors Alpine Garden.s SO Home and Industrial Arts Conces- Horticultural Building 81 sions 171 Concessions 172 Hall of Religion 82 Contributors to Historical Exhibits in Fort D •arhorn 176 The U. S. Govern:ment and the Scientific Exhibits in the Hall of States 85 Science 176 Copyright 1933 by The Cuneo Press, Inc. Printed in U. S. A. COG. I Foreword This is the official exposition g-uide-book of A Century of Progress, Chicago's 1933 World's Fair. It contains the latest and most accurate information avail- able on what has been accom- plished and what is planned for this Exposition of the greatest era of the world's scientific and industrial history. 15] — — transportation facilities to and within the grounds, and the comforts and conveniences desij^ned for your service. The Book endeavors to prepare your mind with authentic data and description of buildings and exhibits which, in a plan years ago conceived and faithfully fol- lowed, compose, you will discover, a harmonious whole—the engineered development of an epic theme. It will serve you as a Fair guide and encyclopedia, and, too, it i.^ hoped, as a souvenir that you will treasure. What Is the Meaning oF It All? Millions Are Expended—A Magic City Created—Throngs Come The World Watches—Then It Vanishes WHY? From May 27 to November 1, 1933, the interest of a considerable part of the civilized world is focused upon 424 acres of land that lie along the shore of Lake Michigan, edging Chicago. A little while ago this site was placid lake. Now, shimmering beside the water, a dream city is risen. It lights the sky with splendor, yet soon will disappear and be merely a memory. Fivs Short Months of Celebration The immensity of the enterprise might make you ask yourself, What could be so tremendously important that a city and its citizens should undertake this titan task of building, shoulder these infinite details, merely to invite the world to come for a carnival? Leaf the pages of history for the last 100 years. The answer is there. A City Lifted From Mud Only a hundred years ago Chicago was a huddle of huts, hewn of logs, clinging to the shadows of Fort Dearborn for safety from the Indians, and four years after its incorporation as a village, in 1833, its population, conquering patches of dreary swamp, had reached 4,000. Today it is nearly 4,000,000—3,376,438 for the sake of accuracy, by the census of 1930—and growing at a rate of 70,000 a year. Chicago in a century has climbed to her place as second largest city in America, fourth in the world. One thousand two hundred houses of worship pierce her skies with spires—more churches and missions than in any of thirteen of the states—and she is one of the country's great religious centers. She has 6,000 acres given to parks and supervised places of play and 35,000 acres of picnic and playgrounds, as forest preserves outside the city limits, and supports a h ndred or more supervised social centers. Chicago ha:, close to 6,000 miles of streets, 84 miles of beautiful boulevards. Bcnc::th her bustling loop, to which area daily at least 250,000 people come to work or for business, and a million and a quarter [8J more to shop or to visit, narrow-gage trains whisk merchandise over 60 miles of tracks through tunnels to stores and marts. Above its towering skyscrapers, passenger and pleasure aircraft and mail planes go their speedy ways, and Chicago rapidly is becoming the hub of American aviation. Chicago is the greatest railroad center in the United States, 53 trunk lines terminating here. An average of one train every 58 sec- onds enters the city, year in and year out. It is the largest livestock market and packing center. It is one of the greatest grain markets and one of the most important ports. Where, a hundred years ago the trading in furs and the business of trapping them constituted the major part of the hamlet's commerce, today her 10,000 or more industries annually produce a vast variety of wares, whose wholesale value averages close to four billions of dollars. It might well stir the most sluggish imagination to contemplate the fact that Chicago, born in the marshes, and actually raised, some years later, by human energy and skill some 12 or 14 feet out of the mud for a healthful and more solid site, now is the commercial and the cultural capital of a domain of more than 40,000,000 people, residing within a night's ride of the city—a population greater than that of Great Britain or France, equal to Germany's. Chicago stands high in world notice as a medical center. It is the home of six famous libraries. Its Art Institute, which, by the way, located in the Grant Park area north of the Fair grounds, is one of two oermanent institutions included in A Century of Progress proper, is visited by more than a million people annually.
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