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TIL the Burnham Plan for Chicago, a 1909 master plan designed by Daniel Burnham, would transform Chicago into a European styled city with diagonal roads, a vast outer park & lakefront park system, several new rail terminals, & a Civic Square. Only portions of the master plan were realized.

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