the so-called plan of chicago, the brainchild of the late architect daniel burnham was a wildly ambitious redevelopment scheme that was now being embraced by much of the city's population. the project was supposed to transform chicago from its current haphazard state into a model metropolis more beautiful and vital than the great cities of europe. the plan had been in the works for several years, and by 1919 progress was just beginning to be made. the palette of the prairie. of course such a large scale and visionary project would not be easy to bring to fruition. the project was extremely expensive, and the logistics' were mind-boggling. in fact, some were saying that realization of this cargo plan would require efforts of light in the this city had mastered in decades, at least since 1861 when jakarta recover from the famous fire. and despite all of these plans for future our protections the city was facing some daunting challenges in the here and now. war years have brought some changes to the city's population promising a permanent -- turbulence of adjustments. so one thing chicagos r