Since the very beginning, Chicago has been known as a city of parks. In the 1830s, the local government adopted the motto “Urbs in horto,” Latin for “City in a garden” — even though it was just a swampy and smelly frontier town of 4,000 citizens at the time. When a formal park system plan … Read more
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