The Burnham Plan Centennial - Bold Plans, Big Dreams

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Educators Resource Guide - The Burnham Plan Centennial: Bold Plans. Big Dreams

Educators Resource Guide - The Burnham Plan Centennial: Bold Plans. Big Dreams

The Bold Plans Big Dreams Educators Resource Guide is a collection of resources that facilitates incorporating the study of metropolitan Chicago into daily teaching. The guide includes clickable links to and PDFs of lessons, activities and multiple educational resources as well as images presented in PowerPoint format and as digital files.

Burnham’s Plan of Chicago provides many points of entry for studying a variety of topics across a variety of academic disciplines. The major themes covered by the study of Burnham’s Plan include:

Chicago History—Industry, Immigration, City Planning

Design —Map-making and Illustration

Open Space—Lake Michigan, Parks, and Forest Preserves

Transportation —Railroads, Harbors, Streets and Bridges

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Special thanks to our Presenting Sponsor for Education 

the McCormick Foundation, William G. McGowan Charitable Fund and the Steans Family Foundation for additional support and to our education partner the Polk Bros. Foundation Center for Chicago Education at DePaul University.

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Burnham Plan Centennial Committee

Chicago's civic leaders are rallying around the opportunity to continue the legacy of the Plan of Chicago through the Burnham Plan Centennial Committee, chaired by John Bryan and George Ranney with Adele Simmons as Vice Chair. Staff support is provided ...[MORE]


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