Author retells Burnham link (Post-Tribune)

CHESTERTON — Carl Smith, a professor of history, English and American Studies at Northwestern University, didn’t set out to write “The Plan of Chicago,” his 2006 book about the work of Daniel Burnham, when he began teaching a course on the urban planner. “I’ve been interested in Chicago’s urban culture ever since I started teaching there in the 1970s. I wasn’t thinking of a book when I …

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