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Title: City planning progress in the United States, 1917
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: American Institute of Architects. Committee on Town Planning Ford, George B. (George Burdett), 1879-1930 Warner, Ralph F
Subjects: City planning Cities and towns
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Journal of the American Institute of Architects
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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*See "Satellite Cities," by Graham R. Taylor, D.
Appleton & Company, 1915.


which Mr. Otis is secretary. The Board of Public Works
has within their jurisdiction the park and boulevard sys-
tem. Funds for its development are furnished by the city
administration. No public markets have yet been erected,
but the Housewives' League, in cooperation with the
Bureau ot Markets of the State Agricultural Depart-
ment, is planning to inaugurate such a market in the near
future. The adjustment ot railroad facilities, the improve-
ment of the waterfront, and the execution of street im-
provement are in the hands ot the Board of Public Works.
The Chamber of Commerce and the city administration
are actively engaged in securing better and more conven-
ient trolley transportation service. A civic center plan is
being jointly studied by the Chamber of Commerce and
the city administration.

Elgin
Illinois
Early in 1916 the Elgin Commercial Club of Elgin
(28,203) secured the services of E. H. Bennett, of Chicago,
to make a comprehensive survey and plan for the city.
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Elgin.—The Two Dominant Features of the New City Plan
are the Treatment of the River Banks and the Reorganization
and Simplification of the Railroad Lines.

CITY PLANNING PROGRESS 59

This action was made poissihle through the gencrositv of
Charles L. Hulburd, president ot the Elgin National
Watch Companv. Mr. Bennett presented his phin in the
latter part of 1916, and immediately an unofficial Citv
Plan Commission, composed ot eleven working groups,
was organized. Each group consisted ot a committee
charged with the solution ot one ot the several problems
given consideration in the report ot Mr. Bennett. The Citv
Planning Commission, composed ot more than 100 repre-
sentative men and women, is backed up in all of its work by
the Elgin Commercial Club, through whom the Commis-
sion came into existence. Large public gatherings have
been addressed, and slides of the drawings are being
screened in the moving-picture theatres. A very attractive
booklet of fifty pages has been published, giving the
details ot the plan, and this is being used by the Committee
on Publicity in bringing the recommendations to the peo-
ple of Elgin.

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