Chicago is the third most populous city in the United States, located on the shores of Lake Michigan in Illinois. It grew rapidly in the mid-19th century and covers an area of nearly 150,000 acres. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 destroyed large parts of the city, efforts were made to rebuild. In the early 20th century, urban planner Daniel Burnham designed a plan to beautify Chicago against urbanization, focusing on the city center with parks, boulevards, and architecture. While the plan helped development and aesthetics initially, issues like traffic congestion and loss of green space arose as the population increased.

1. Chicago City of
Illinois
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2. City of Chicago
City of Chicago, is the most-
populous city in the U.S.
state of Illinois and the third-
most-populous city in
the United States. With an
estimated population of
2,705,994 (2018.
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3. Location
Located on the shores of
freshwater Lake
Michigan, Chicago
was incorporated as a
city in 1837 near
a portage between
the Great Lakes and
the Mississippi River
watershed and grew
rapidly in the mid-19th
century.
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4. Area
This is spread over area of
149770.57acres
The metropolitan area is
the third-most-populous in
the nation.
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5. Population
• An estimated
population of
2,705,994
(2018), it is also
the most-
populous city in
the Midwest.
• It is third most
populas city in
U.S
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6. Chicago after disaster
 After the Great Chicago Fire of
1871, which destroyed several
square miles and left more than
100,000 homeless, the city made a
concerted effort to rebuild. The
construction boom accelerated
population growth throughout the
following decades, and by 1900,
Chicago was the fifth-largest city in
the world
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7. Contribution to Planning
Chicago made noted contributions to
urban planning and zoning
standards, including new
construction styles (including
the Chicago School of
architecture). Daniel Burnham was
architect and designer of the new
design of city in 1912.
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8. Layout plan. 8

9. Panning
 the aim was to beautify the city against
massive urbanization and industrlialization.
They work for aesthetic and the most of city
buildings was white.
 The design was similar to cities like paris,
mostly focused on the city centre. There was
nodal design with a city centre , streets,
boulevards ,fountains, and construction in
accordance with early designs.
 They made efforts to utilize the lake front and
other water bodies to enhance fishing and
entertainment and aesthetics
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10.  Major attentions is given to highways
so to connect city centre directly with
the outer areas and similar with
railways to boost economics.
 Parks contributed to aesthetic feature
of city.
 Plan was helping automobiles with
systematic and wider streets
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11. Problems
 The systematic and wider street
patterns brought traffic congestion to a
great extent.
 The rise in population cause to built
infrastructure on parks and other
natural resources the most recent
issue they faced.
 Neighbourhood concept was neglected
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12. Thank you.
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