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Table of Contents
- Chicago: A History of Choices and Changes. Students examine Chicago challenges during the early 1900s. Students read about the Burnham Plan and identify the problems he addressed and the solutions he proposed that still shape the city today.
- Your Community Today. Students identify assests in their community and analyze progress it has made. It includes an activity in which students interview a person who has been involved in community progress.
- Plan for Community Progress. Students analyze community changes with an emphasis on collaboration. While part 2 emphasized ideas -- visionaries and heroes -- this part emphasizes the importance of working together to make progress.
- The City Today. Students examine Burnham's vision as it addressed city-wide systems that are part of the infrastructure and make their own recommendations for improvements today.
- Bold Plans. Big Dreams. Students relate the big plans to their own visions for Chicago -- and for themselves. It is a culmination of learning about the plans and progress of Chicago, as students make their own plans for the city and for themselves.
Learn about the Plan—the conditions that prompted it, the major recommendations, its implementation and its legacy in this highly illustrated booklet available for download or on-line viewing.
The online Encyclopedia of Chicago has a wealth of information including a fully digitized copy of the Burnham Plan.
Explore Daniel Burnham’s vision of an ideal city with an interactive map of the World’s Fair of 1893.
Think you know Chicago and the 'burbs? Play this online game that challenges your knowledge of the Chicago region.
Schools and universities throughout the region are developing events and projects during the Burnham Plan Centennial.