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proportion, and by far the more important, 

 of them are there. In other cities a man may 

 have to travel miles to consult his dentist, his 

 oculist and his physician, buy his clothing and 

 lunch at his favorite restaurant; in Chicago 



SUBURBAN DISTRICTS 



1. New Trier Township 



2. Evanston 



3. Niles 



4. Maine 



5. Norwood Park 



6. Ley den 



7. Oak Park 



8. Proviso 



9. Cicero 



10. Berwyn 



11. Riverside 



12. Stickney 



13. Lyons 



14. Worth 



15. Calumet 



16. Thornton 



he can do it all within a very few blocks. 

 This has its advantages, but it also has its 

 disadvantages. The crush in the streets and 

 the din from the cars, wagons, elevated trains 

 and automobiles are by no means soothing 

 to the hardened resident, while to the stranger 

 they are nerve-racking. During comparatively 

 late years the noise and the crowding have 

 been greatly lessened by the construction of 

 tunnels, thirty feet below the surface, through 

 which most of the heavy freight is carried. 



Within the business district State Street 

 stands as the center of the retail trade. Depart- 

 ment stores have been brought to a high state 

 of efficiency in Chicago, and the group on State 

 Street is the largest in the world. The great 

 retail establishment of Marshall Field & Com- 

 pany, covering an entire block, is unmatched 

 elsewhere the world over in size and equipment. 

 Fifth Avenue is the center for the wholesale 



dry goods trade ; La Salle Street is the financial 

 district, or "Wall Street of Chicago," and South 

 Water Street, a little north of the "Loop," is 

 a succession of produce markets, to which the 

 wagons of the truck farmers and those from 

 the outlying markets throng in the early hours, 

 before the rest of the city is awake. 



The most notable street of the downtown 

 district, and for a mile one of the finest vistas 

 in the world, is Michigan Avenue, the first 

 street west of the lake. With the grassy stretch 

 of Grant Park to the east and many of the 

 most substantial and striking buildings of the 

 city on the west, and with its beautiful lighting 

 system, it is probably unexcelled. In accord- 

 ance with its "city beautiful" idea, Chicago has 

 been devoting much attention to the beautify- 

 ing of its lake front. Colonnades, fountains, 

 pillared terraces and ornamental bridges have 

 been added, and the plans for the future in- 

 clude athletic grounds, a stadium, concrete 

 steps leading to the water's edge, and statuary 

 among the trees. 



The Blackstone Hotel, in its architectural 

 features much resembling some of the great 

 hotels of New York; the Auditorium, with 

 its large hotel and magnificent theater; the 

 McCormick Building; the tile-faced Railway 

 Exchange; the People's Gas Building, with its 

 eighteen gigantic one-piece granite pillars; the 

 University Club and Monroe buildings; the 

 Tower Building, the top of whose pinnacle is 

 the highest point in the city, and the Mich- 

 igan Boulevard Building constitute an impos- 

 ing row and give a most picturesque skyline 

 to this city which, in its flat surroundings, is all 

 too barren of the picturesque. The only build- 

 ing which stands on the east side of Michigan 

 Avenue between Park Row and Randolph 

 Street, a distance of one mile, is the Art Insti- 

 tute, a beautiful structure in Renaissance style. 

 It contains permanent art collections of great 

 value, and there is seldom a time when a spe- 

 cial exhibit of note is not housed there. There 

 are, moreover, a valuable art library, a lecture 

 hall, and a well-attended school of art instruc- 

 tion. Immediately to the south of this building 

 stands one of the city's newest ornaments, 

 Lorado Taft's remarkable fountain, "The Spirit 

 of the Great Lakes." 



Other Notable Buildings. No building in 

 Chicago may be over 200 feet in height. Chief 

 of the grekt structures, in point of size, is the 

 combined city hall and courthouse, occupying 

 the square bounded by Randolph, Clark, Wash- 

 ington and La Salle streets. It is a magnifi- 



