Exhibit : Monday, September 1, 2008 to Sunday, September 13, 2009
Wheel Works of Art
DuPage Children's Museum
This interactive Art Gallery will capitalize on children's love of wheels, trains, bikes, cars and favorite toys that have wheels. DCM wants children to connect with the creative side of familiar wheels and then build on that knowledge to connect to the real world and to give children the opportunities to explore and think creatively about transportation. This current year long exhibit allows children to see different forms of transportation through paintings, sculpture, toys and hands on exploration. [MORE]
Exhibit : Sunday, September 14, 2008 to Monday, January 18, 2010
Daniel Burnham's Plan of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
Don't miss the last of five insightful rotations of rarely displayed prized illustrations created for the Plan of Chicago. This final exhibit showcase images from Chapter VII of the Plan: Heart of the City which feature the proposed Civic Center at Halsted and Congress Streets. This year-long exhibit has been curated by the Department of Architecture and Design.
A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.” [MORE]
Exhibit : Saturday, November 8, 2008 to Monday, January 19, 2009
BURNHAM 2.0: A Composite Plan for the High Speed Rail City
Chicago Architectural Club
One of the most imposing challenges Chicago will face in the 21st century is mobility—finding faster, more efficient, and more sustainable ways to move people and materials.
Exhibit : Thursday, January 15, 2009 to Friday, May 1, 2009
ORD: Documenting the Definitive Modern Airport
Chicago Architecture Foundation
In the second half of the 20th century
Exhibit : Saturday, January 24, 2009 to Sunday, May 3, 2009
Burnham in Elmhurst
Elmhurst Art Museum
Burnham in Elmhurst is an exhibit and lecture series aimed to explore Burnham's influence on the development of Elmhurst and how it continues to impact the planning efforts of the city. It includes: [MORE]
Exhibit : Sunday, February 15, 2009 to Sunday, August 30, 2009
Plan of Chicago 1909 and Plan of Winnetka 1921
Winnetka Historical Society
The “big dreams” in the Burnham/Bennett Plan of 1909 have shaped the
Exhibit : Monday, March 2, 2009 to Friday, April 17, 2009
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Conserving Native Landscapes in the Metropolis
Cliff Dwellers
Frank V. Dudley: Conserving Native Landscapes in the Metropolis: an Exhibition of twelve Paintings of Burnham Park, Jackson Park, and the Indiana Dunes.
Frank Dudley spent forty years of his professional life as a landscape painter to promote and preserve the Indiana Dunes. Along with fellow Cliff Dwellers Daniel H. Burnham and Jens Jensen, they advocated for the Forest Preserves surrounding Chicago. [MORE]
Exhibit : Saturday, March 7, 2009 to Sunday, May 31, 2009
City Beautiful Art Installations
Greater North Michigan Avenue Association
Celebrate spring with an architectural spin during the sixth annual Tulips on the Magnificent Mile celebration. Six renowned artists and architecture firms have designed original public art installations highlighting architecture and celebrating Burnham's City Beautiful plan for Chicago. The exhibit features six sculptures in varying in size and function situated among the vibrant tulip beds on the west side of North Michigan Avenue. [MORE]
Exhibit : Thursday, March 26, 2009 to Monday, June 8, 2009
Burnham Streetscape
Chicago Loop Alliance
The Chicago Loop Association's inaugural Streetscape program for 2009 highlights Daniel Burnham’s historic vision for Chicago. An engaging installation of artistic and creative works along State Street—utilizing planters, banners, light posts and El station entrances—covers nine blocks from Congress Parkway to Wacker Drive. The installations celebrate, beautify and activate the Loop while celebrating the major Burnham events and exhibitions during 2009.
Presented in conjunction with Shedd Aquarium and the Field Museum [MORE]
Exhibit : Friday, May 1, 2009 to Saturday, August 1, 2009
Burnham's Backyard
Glencoe Historical Society
The "Burnham's Backyard" exhibit, will look at the role of the 1909 Burnham Plan and the development of the Cook County Forest Preserves' Skokie Lagoons (in Glencoe). Included will be information on Daniel Burnham, the Plan and the development of the Lagoons. Highlights include artifacts from Burnham-designed buildings on loan from the collection of
Exhibit : Friday, May 1, 2009 to Sunday, September 13, 2009
Good Show Transportation Gallery
DuPage Children's Museum
The gallery of children's art, age range Kindergarten through Grade five, changes three times a year. The focus for May 2009, gallery of art work will be trains. Children at each grade level will see art work and posters of trains showing the changes through the last 100 years. Children will create art work depicting trains which will be displayed in the gallery. The museum is directly adjacent to the railroad tracks and Naperville train station and many families use the train to access the museum so this is of particular interest to many of our patrons.
Exhibit : Friday, May 1, 2009 to Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Worth His Salt: Joy Morton's Role in the 1909 Plan of Chicago
Morton Arboretum
Today, Chicagoans remember Joy Morton as the man who sold salt and planted trees. Few realize the significant role he played in developing the 1909 Plan of Chicago. A long-time member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, Morton served on its Executive Committee, chaired its important committee on railway terminals, and joined other members of the Commercial Club in backing up the Plan’s rhetoric with his own money and influence.
Exhibit : Friday, May 1, 2009 to Sunday, November 15, 2009
Fullersburg: Chicago's Neighbor on the Old Plank Road
Graue Mill and Museum
An exhibit of photographs and other artifacts that illustrate Fullersburg (now incorporated into Hinsdale and Oak Brook) and Chicago in the years leading to 1909 and that examine the factors that caused Fullersburg to decline while Chicago boomed. Hands-on activities include simple city planning using a magnetic board and constructing simple buildings using basic materials. [MORE]
Exhibit : Friday, May 1, 2009 to Thursday, August 20, 2009
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Edge of Intent
Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago
The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago is proud to present The Edge of Intent, an exhibition looking at the utopian aspirations of urban planners, and how their idealistic visions sometimes become static and incapable of adapting to changing environments and systems. The works in this exhibition warn us of the hazards of “thinking big,” while urging us to consider the centrality of dynamism in successful urban design. [MORE]
Exhibit : Sunday, May 10, 2009 to Thursday, December 31, 2009
Daniel Burnham's Evanston
Evanston History Center
Focusing on the life and work of Daniel Burnham in Evanston, this exhibit will highlight both Burnham's personal life and his architectural and planning work in the city. Daniel Burnham called Evanston home for almost all of his professional life. Although his home no longer stands, his architectural and planning legacy left its mark on Evanston. [MORE]
Exhibit : Tuesday, May 19, 2009 to Thursday, July 8, 2010
Deep Roots, Green Future: City Planning in Elgin
Gail Borden Public Library District
Many principles of the Chicago Plan were used when Burnham’s partner Edward Bennett formulated a plan for Elgin in 1917. Discover this plan and others that followed including the latest Elgin plan for sustainability.
Exhibit opening will be held Tuesday, May 19 at 6:30 p.m., Gail Borden Public Library. [MORE]
Exhibit : Friday, May 22, 2009 to Sunday, August 2, 2009
Finding Walden: Photographs of the Chicago Parks System
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
Finding Walden: Photographs of the Chicago Parks System celebrates Daniel Burnham's vision for and continued importance of parks, open space which are at the heart of the quality of life of Chicago and the region. The exhibit, located on the main level of the Museum will feature the photographs of Bill Guy who studied at Columbia College, Chicago. [MORE]
Exhibit : Saturday, May 23, 2009 to Monday, July 27, 2009
Interurban Trains & Tourism: Reclaiming the Past for the Future
Lubeznik Center for the Arts
The exhibit features the original paintings commissioned in the late 1920's to promote tourism and economic development between Chicago and South Bend. These paintings, developed as a line of posters commonly known as South Shore Posters, are beautiful examples of vintage artwork portraying the early 20th century boom of Northwest Indiana. In addition there will be an expansive oil painting of the path from the Chicago area to the Michigan City, Indiana site of the CHicago South Shore & South Shore freight.
Exhibit : Monday, June 1, 2009 to Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Daniel Burnham in the Philippines
Newberry Library
In the winter of 1904-1905, Chicago architect and future co-author of the Plan of Chicago Daniel Burnham traveled to the Philippines. He had won a commission from the United States government to develop a new city plan for Manila, the capital of the Philippines, and to create a city plan for a completely new "summer capital," Baguio City, 155 miles to the north of Manila and 5,000 feet above sea level in the mountains of Luzon. The United States gained possession of the Philippines in 1898 as part of its treaty with Spain at the end of the Spanish American War
Exhibit : Monday, June 1, 2009 to Thursday, December 31, 2009
Plan of Wilmette, 1922: Following in Burnham's Footsteps
Wilmette Historical Museum
As part of the regionwide, centennial celebration of Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago, this new exhibit examines the 1922 Plan of Wilmette. Following Burnham's work, Wilmette's Plan considered issues such as open spaces, zoning regulations, street lighting and transportation, especially the idea of elevating the railroad tracks along Green Bay Road. Exhibit highlights include an original Plan drawing, a 1925 street lamp and illustrations from the town's first community-wide plan. Through December 2009. [MORE]
Exhibit : Monday, June 1, 2009 to Sunday, November 15, 2009
Photography Exhibit: Celebrating the Village of Oak Brook
Oak Brook Public Library
Students of Jeff and Donna Franklin's class on Digital Photography will display their work. The focus will be on areas of open space, beauty, and civic life within Oak Brook. [MORE]
Exhibit : Tuesday, June 2, 2009 to Sunday, June 21, 2009
100 Columns + (ABC's: All Burnham Chicago)
C U P & Virginia Polytechnic Institute
A micro-installation in Burnham Park, 100 Columns + represents both turning the clock backward 100 years and forward 100 years. This timeframe gives perspective on the historic events since 1909 and speculates toward all the potential developments ahead for the city of Chicago. The 100 Columns + vision is one of a field or prairie as Chicago once was, but focusing upon urban growth patterns both which were and could be natural and constructed over two hundred years 1909–2109. [MORE]
Exhibit : Wednesday, June 3, 2009 to Monday, November 30, 2009
Habitat Park Exhibit
Kohl Children's Museum of Greater Chicago
The second phase of development of our two-acre outdoor exhibit, Habitat Park, features hands-on learning opportunities in a sustainable and universally designed environment that encourages cooperative play and the development of a lifelong interest in nature. Programming within Habitat Park includes themes that align with Burnham’s open space legacies and activities that foster environmental awareness. [MORE]
Exhibit : Friday, June 5, 2009 to Sunday, October 4, 2009
El Proximo Centenario
National Museum of Mexican Art
El Proximo Centenario captures the spirit of imagination and innovation that the Burnham Plan represents, and reinvigorates the Plan’s tradition of having big dreams for the future through an arts initiative that engages young emerging Mexican Latino artists/architects and students involved in the WRTE-FM Radio Arte program. Participants will mainly comprise students and young artists of color from the city’s diverse, low-income communities of Pilsen, Little Village and Back of the Yards. [MORE]
Exhibit : Wednesday, June 10, 2009 to Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Chicago Model City
Chicago Architecture Foundation
Extended through November 2010! How does a city as vast and complex as Chicago take shape? What are the goals of officials, real estate developers, corporations, and citizens who structure urban life? Chicago Model City explores the planning of Chicago in order to encourage audiences to understand how cities impact individual lives, shape regions, and determine the health of the planet. By investigating urban life-changing ideas, this exhibition and educational project will inspire people to imagine the future of Chicago and metropolit
Exhibit : Thursday, June 11, 2009 to Tuesday, January 5, 2010
B Like Burnham
Chicago Architecture Foundation
The John Buck Company Lecture Hall in the Santa Fe Building will be the focal point for youth activities relating to the Chicago Model City exhibit. The walls of this space will be devoted to interpretation of the Plan for younger minds with expectations that adults will learn as well. This bold graphic presentation may also be available in published form.
A special opening for families will be held Sunday, June 21st from 1:00 - 3:00 pm. [MORE]
Exhibit : Monday, June 15, 2009 to Saturday, October 31, 2009
The Burnham Plan, Impetus for Change on Chicago's Southeast Side
Southeast Chicago Historical Society
The new exhibit will showcase aspects of the 1909 Burnham Plan in relation to the Southeast side of Chicago and subsequent planning initiatives for the area. Exhibit will include: the Van Vlissingen Plan for Calumet Harbor, Metropolitan Food Center Plan, the Lake Calumet Airport Plan, South Works Development, 134th Street Redevelopment Project, and City of Chicago planning initiatives for the Calumet region and other initiatives uncovered in research. The results will be shared with local schools and social studies teachers. [MORE]
Exhibit : Wednesday, June 17, 2009 to Sunday, September 20, 2009
Water
Field Museum
Life cannot exist without it. But when was the last time you were amazed by water? Now you can immerse yourself in one of the most fascinating yet overlooked substances in the universe. In this exciting, interactive exhibition, you'll discover how water shapes our planet and impacts nearly everything we do. And how we impact the planet's water supply. See firsthand how water's power is harnessed. Step on a scale to find out what you're made of (hint: it's mostly water). And get your hands wet at this exciting, interactive exhibition. [MORE]
Exhibit : Thursday, June 18, 2009 to Monday, November 30, 2009
Make Big Plans: Daniel Burnham's Vision of an American Metropolis
St. Charles Public Library District
In honor of the 100th anniversary of Daniel Burnham and Edward H. Bennett’s Plan of Chicago, the Burnham Plan Centennial Committee and The Newberry Library have created a photopanel and digital exhibit entitled Make Big Plans: Daniel Burnham’s Vision of an American Metropolis. Curated by the Newberry, the show will be on display through December 2009 at the St. Charles Public Library as well as in other public libraries and venues throughout the metropolitan region.
Exhibit : Friday, June 19, 2009 to Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Make Big Plans: Burnham's Vision of an American Metropolis
Newberry Library
The multi-format exhibition includes a photo-panel exhibit that will be simultaneously displayed at more than 60 libraries and other venues throughout the region from June - December 2009 and an online exhibition and slide show that contains the full list of Make Big Plans exhibit venues. Commemorating the publication of Daniel H. Burnham and Edward H. [MORE]
Exhibit : Friday, June 19, 2009 to Friday, August 14, 2009
Make Big Plans Exhibit
Highland Park Public Library
In honor of the 100th anniversary of Daniel Burnham and Edward H. Bennett's Plan of Chicago, the Burnham Plan Centennial Committee and The Newberry Library are creating a photopanel and digital exhibit entitled Make Big Plans: Daniel Burnham's Vision of an American Metropolis. Curated by the Newberry, the exhibit emphasizes the Plan's relevance to metropolitan development through the 20th century and into the future using photographic reproductions of stunning images from the plan and other sources. The Park District of Highland Park celebrates its own centennial in 2009.
Exhibit : Friday, June 19, 2009 to Sunday, November 1, 2009
Burnham Pavilions
Burnham Plan Centennial Committee
The iconic centerpieces of the Burnham Plan Centennial are two temporary architectural pavilions in Millennium Park. World-renowned architects Zaha Hadid (London) and Ben van Berkel (UNStudio, Amsterdam) designed these bold pavilions to echo the audacious future-looking images and words of the Burnham Plan: “What we as a people decide to do in the [MORE]
Exhibit : Friday, June 19, 2009 to Sunday, September 27, 2009
Make Big Plans: Burnham's Vision of an American Metropolis
Westchester Public Library
The Westchester Public Library is hosting Make Big Plans: Burnham's Vision of an American Metropolis at the Westchester History Museum located at 700 W. Porter Ave, Chesterton, Indiana. The exhibit will be on display until September 27 in recognition that Daniel Burnham included the three norwest Indiana counties of Lake, Porter and LaPorte in his historic Plan.
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Exhibit : Friday, June 19, 2009 to Saturday, October 31, 2009
Make Big Plans: Daniel Burnham's Dream of an American Metropolis
Chicago Public Library
The multi-format exhibition includes a photo-panel exhibit simultaneously displayed at 12 CPL libraries from June - October 2009 and an online exhibition and slide show.The exhibit emphasizes the Plan's relevance to metropolitan development through the 20th century and into the future. [MORE]
Exhibit : Monday, June 22, 2009 to Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Make Big Plans: Daniel Burnham's Vision of an American Metropolis
Clarendon Hills Public Library
The Clarendon Hills Public Library is one of fifty public libraries throughout the region that will simultaneously present “Make Big Plans: Daniel Burnham’s Vision of an American Metropolis,” an exhibit created by the Newberry Library for understanding and discussing the historical significance of the 1909 Plan of Chicago, critically examining its historical context, its influence on the twentieth-century lands
Exhibit : Friday, June 26, 2009 to Thursday, November 26, 2009
Waukegan Lakefront-Downtown Master Plan Exhibit
City of Waukegan
The City of Waukegan has developed a photopanel exhibit to showcase Waukegan's award-winning master plan, corresponding to the Centennial's program objectives to inspire and educate and initiate bold plans. The exhibit gives visitors a chance to experience the bold, expansive regional plan on several different scales, and showcase the future vision. Also, it provides information about the status of implementation within the master plan redevelopment area. [MORE]
Exhibit : Wednesday, July 1, 2009 to Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Make Big Plans: Burnham's Vision of an American Metropolis
Northbrook Public Library
The Northbrook Public Library will host "Make Big Plans: Daniel Burnham’s Vision of an American Metropolis" an exhibit hosted by the Newberry Library commemorating Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett's 1909 Plan of Chicago. The exhibit emphasizes the Plan’s relevance to metropolitan development through the 20th century and into the future using photographic reproductions of stunning images from the plan and other sources. The Northbrook Library is one of over 50 venues throughout the metropolitan region that will host the exhibit which is a focal point
Exhibit : Wednesday, July 1, 2009 to Saturday, October 31, 2009
Make Big Plans: Daniel Burnham's Vision of an American Metropolis
Niles Public Library District
In honor of the 100th anniversary of Daniel Burnham and Edward H. Bennett’s Plan of Chicago, the Burnham Plan Centennial Committee and The Newberry Library are creating a photopanel and digital exhibit entitled Make Big Plans: Daniel Burnham’s Vision of an American Metropolis. Curated by the Newberry, the show will be on display from June through December 2009 in public libraries and other venues throughout the metropolitan region, and will be a focal point of the Centennial.
Exhibit : Wednesday, July 1, 2009 to Friday, January 15, 2010
Burnham and Northwestern
Northwestern University
The exhibit, which will include blueprints, sketches, manuscript and archival material, and photographs, will document Burnham's relationship with the University a few blocks from his Evanston home. Burnham received his first honorary degree here (1895), and his firm submitted proposals for a number of buildings, including Fisk Hall, which opened in 1899. A focal point of the exhibit will be Burnham's comprehensive Campus Plan (1905). While the Plan of Northwestern was never implemented, Burnham's drawing reflects many of the features found in his other large-scale projects. [MORE]
Exhibit : Wednesday, July 1, 2009 to Monday, March 15, 2010
ART + Science = Architecture
Museum of Science and Industry
Adam Reed Tucker gives us all something to look up to. His towering interpretations of famous city landmarks aim to bring accessibility to architecture. Instead of using traditional materials- steel, brick, glass- to build is skyscrapers, Tucker opts for a more modets construction medium: LEGOs. Piece by piece, LEGO by LEGO, this trained architect creates large-scale artistic models of some of the most famous structure in America including Chicago's Willis Tower, St. Louis' Gateway Arch and Seattle's Space Needle. [MORE]
Exhibit : Thursday, July 9, 2009 to Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Building the Business of Architecture: The Burnham Brothers and Chicago in the Golden Twenties
DePaul University
Architectural drawings ranging from façade drawings to engineering plans are on display. The exhibition traces the inside view of the history of Chicago’s iconic skyline through architectural drawings, photographs and archival documents. [MORE]
Exhibit : Tuesday, July 14, 2009 to Sunday, May 16, 2010
Envisioning Joliet: Burnham, Bennett, and Beyond
Joliet Area Historical Museum
This exhibit provides insight into Daniel H. Burnham and Edward H. Bennett and touches on the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, the buildings of D.H. Burnham & Company in Joliet, Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago, and Bennett's 1921 Plan of Joliet.
Today, planners and architects continue to improve the city and increase its livability by expanding on Bennett's plan. With preparations for new campaigns such as the VOA Associates' transit center, the spirit of Burnham and Bennett lives on in Joliet. [MORE]
Exhibit : Wednesday, July 29, 2009 to Monday, September 28, 2009
Good Order and Consequent Beauty: Planning the Future of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
On July 4, 1909 the visionary planning document Plan of Chicago was publicly released by the Commercial Club and its authors Daniel H. Burnham and Edward H. Bennett. As the repository of both the Burnham and Bennett archival collections, the Libraries will celebrate the Plan's centennial by exhibiting letters, diaries, committee minutes, reports and photographs documenting the evolution of the planning concepts, the gathering of data for the plan, and the process of publishing the book. [MORE]
Exhibit : Saturday, August 1, 2009 to Friday, October 16, 2009
Daniel Hudson Burnham: In His Nature
Indian Prairie Public Library
Photographs by Tom Krekelberg taken in local forest preserves that vividly capture the peace and tranquility Daniel Burnham envisioned when he incorporated open spaces and parks in his plans will be on display in the library’s upstairs gallery during the month of August 2009. [MORE]
Exhibit : Saturday, August 1, 2009 to Sunday, October 25, 2009
Make Big Plans: Daniel Burnham's Vision for the Metropolis
Illinois Railway Museum
In honor of the 100th anniversary of Daniel Burnham and Edward H. Bennett's Plan of Chicago, the Make Big Plans: Daniel Burnham's Vision of an American Metropolis exhibit, curated by the Newberry, will be on display simultaneously at the Illinois Railway Museum and over 50 public libraries and other venues throughout the metropolitan region.
Exhibit : Saturday, August 1, 2009 to Sunday, October 25, 2009
City Planning in the Age of Steam and Streetcars
Illinois Railway Museum
Chicago was a much different place one-hundred years ago. This exhibits, City Planning in the Age of Steam and Streetcars, focuses on transportation issues and how people who used steam trains and streetcars viewed their city in a different way than today's auto-dependent citizens, The exhibit ties-in with over a dozen locomotives, "L" cars, streetcars and train cars inthe museum collection that were in Chicago at the same time Burnham and Bennett drafted the Plan of Chicago. [MORE]
Exhibit : Monday, August 3, 2009 to Saturday, February 27, 2010
Inspiring Dreams: Promoting the Burnham Plan
Chicago Public Library
Daniel Burnham’s Plan of Chicago inspired the dreams of people living and working in Chicago in the early decades of the 20th century. Many strategies were employed to enable Burnham and the Commercial Club of Chicago, who supported his work, to “sell” the “Plan” to the City Planning Commission and eventually the public. [MORE]
Exhibit : Tuesday, August 18, 2009 to Sunday, November 15, 2009
Make No Little Plans: The Big Shoulders Fund Schools Plan Their Future Chicago
Loyola University Museum of Art
The Big Shoulders Fund provides support to the Catholic schools in the neediest areas of inner-city Chicago through scholarships, special education programs, instructional equipment, much needed facility imrpovements, faculty support and operating grants. Seventy-seven schools were each designated a separate Chicago neighborhood to study throughout this Centennial year. Fifth-grade students researched and reported on the assigned neighborhood, highlighting the past history, current situation and vision for the future of the assigned neighborhood. [MORE]
Exhibit : Friday, August 21, 2009 to Sunday, November 1, 2009
Burnham Memorial Competition Exhibit
AIA Chicago
This exhibit features David Woodhouse Architects' winning design and three-dimensional scale model for a proposed Burnham Memorial at a site on the Museum Campus just north of the Field Museum. DWA's design was one of 19 entries submitted by architectural firms throughout the country in the two-phase competition. [MORE]
Exhibit : Friday, August 21, 2009 to Sunday, September 27, 2009
The Last Four Miles: Completing Chicago's Lakefront Parks
Loyola University Chicago
The Loyola University Crown Center Gallery kicks off the 2009-2010 seasion with an exhibition exploring a local issue especially relevant to the Loyola community, The Last Four Miles: Completing Chicago's Lakefront Parks presented in association with Friends of the Parks.
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Exhibit : Monday, August 24, 2009 to Monday, September 14, 2009
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Building Your Place in Riverside
Riverside Public Library
To celebrate the Centennial of the Burnham Plan, Riverside residents and businesses will have the opportunity to become part of Olmsted's Plan of Riverside, by participating in a BIG MAP Project, which will be on display August 24 through September 14. [MORE]
Exhibit : Friday, September 4, 2009 to Sunday, October 11, 2009
Big. Bold. Visionary. Chicago Considers the Next Century.
Burnham Plan Centennial Committee
Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago did more than provide a vision for Chicago in the 20th century. It established a precedent of dreaming big and thinking boldly that every generation of Chicagoans since has firmly embraced. This exhibition taps current Chicago architects, planners and landscape architects for their visions of the city and region in the 21st century and beyond. [MORE]
Exhibit : Friday, September 4, 2009 to Thursday, December 31, 2009
Daniel Burnham's Enduring Vision for the Philippines
City of Chicago
Architectural and landscape photographer Tim Long shot photographs that document the buildings and streets -- built according to a Burnham Plan -- that still stand and still play an important role in the landscape of Manila, the capital of the Philippines.
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Exhibit : Thursday, September 10, 2009 to Thursday, January 14, 2010
Daniel H. Burnham and Prairie Avenue
Glessner House Museum
This exhibit will focus on the early career of Burnham & Root, beginning with the 1874 commission for the John Sherman house at 2100 S. Prairie Avenue. It was during the design and construction of this residence that Burnham met and married Sherman's daughter Margaret. Upon completion of the house, the Burnhams resided with the
Exhibit : Wednesday, September 30, 2009 to Monday, November 30, 2009
Chicago Looks Ahead: 100 Years of Planning, 1909-2009
Art Institute of Chicago
As a repository rich in collections documenting the last 100 years of Chicago planning, the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries feature a a selection of papers, photographs, maps and books related to the 1909 Plan of Chicago. [MORE]
Exhibit : Friday, October 16, 2009 to Saturday, March 13, 2010
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Actions: What You Can Do With the City presents 99 actions that instigate positive change in contemporary cities around the world. Seemingly common activities such as walking, playing, recycling and gardening are pushed beyond their usual definition by the international architects, artists and collectives featured in the exhibition. Their experimental interactions with the urban environment show the potential influence personal involvement can have in shaping the city and challenge fellow residents to participate. Related lectures include: [MORE]
Exhibit : Saturday, November 14, 2009 to Friday, December 18, 2009
Big Plans Come True
Landmark Conservancy
This exhibition, comprising materials from the DePaul Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago and the original 1909 Plan of Chicago, emphasizes the impact of Daniel Burnham and Ed Bennett's Plan on the suburbs of Chicago, including roads, waterways and forest preserves. [MORE]
Exhibit : Saturday, December 19, 2009 to Sunday, February 28, 2010
C.D. Arnold Photographs of the World's Columbian Exposition
Art Institute of Chicago
The first exhibition in the Art Institute's "Chicago Cabinet" series features highlights from the Ryerson Library’s archive of large platinum prints made by C. D. Arnold, the official photographer of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. The Chicago World’s Fair, as it is also known, attracted some 27 million people, or nearly half the population of the United States, to the city during its six-month run. [MORE]