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| Title: | NEI Program - The Plan of Pullman and Its Influence on the Plan of Chicago |
| Date: | 02-25-2010 |
| Time: | 5:30 - 8:00pm |
| Location: | Riverside Public Library 1 Burling Road Riverside, IL 60546 |
| Description: | While the plans were separated by thirty years of dramatic change in the history of Chicago, industrialist George M. Pullman and Daniel Burnham both had visions of creating places for happy and prosperous lives. Our speaker, Michael Shymanski, AIA, will share the story of the famous (and, to some in its day, infamous) factory town on Chicago’s southeast side that was built to house workers of Pullman’s railroad sleeping car works. The sparkling new town was also a tourist magnet during the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893. Four years later George M. Pullman was dead and a year later the town experiment ended. The same underlying set of values, however, was woven into both the physical plan for the Town of Pullman and the Plan of Chicago. The extensive publicity and commentary on the Town of Pullman impressed members of the architecture and engineering professions of the day including, perhaps, Burnham according to historian Stanley Buder who saw influences of Pullman in the planning and design of the 1893 World’s Fair. |
| Sponsor: | AIA Northeast Illinois |
| Comments: | 5:30 - 6:30pm Registration / Networking / Appetizer Buffet / Small group guided tours of the library Advanced Registration deadline is February 17. |
| Links: | NEI Program - The Plan of Pullman and Its Influence on the Plan of Chicago |
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