Excerpt from Chicago the Magnificent, the Empire City of the West: A Souvenir of the World's Fair More than this, Chicago in its peculiarities is a city of the future. A twentieth century city it should be called, when compared with other cities of Europe and America. It is, as yet, only an infant - a very big infant sprawling, so to speak, over the prairie that stretches along the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan. But, in the giant uncouthness ofi ts infantile proportions may be seen the promise and the potency of mural greatness, grandeur, activity, enterprise, and population such as the world has never witnessed before. The most enthusiastic admirer of Chicago, however, cannot claim that it is beautiful, in the sense that Paris and Florence are called beautiful. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.