A better Chicago

Burning down

NEW MAYOR:

The city after the fire was becoming bigger and bigger as time went on. After the rebuilding, the new mayor, Joseph Medill, had pledged to make the city better in every way possible. He had the buildings taller and more of them, so the city could hold more people thus a bigger population. He also had more transportation than before, along the railroad tracks that had been there and not destroyed in the fire. By 1890, Chicago had been a major economic and transportation place with more than one million people, which was huge for The United States at the time with New York City was the only place in America to have more than Chicago did. This was good for the city because the new mayor seemed to know a lot about the city’s well being and also seemed like he wanted to make sure that the city was going to do better than before, more safe and also more interesting to attract people and tourists so the city would gain more money.

NEW ADDITIONS TO THE CITY:

As the city was growing, more and more people came and settled down there. In 1893, Chicago held the World’s Columbian Exposition (Worlds fair), which had attracted a crazy amount of people, 27.5 million people in the new and better city of Chicago. After the world’s fair had passed, more buildings were built the way of the new laws, and nothing has gone wrong. The world’s fair had brought new ideas for everyone to use, and Chicago had used some of them. They had used building structures, an idea was old times, like the Romans. This was good for the city because it had shown everyone that although they were a changing city, they also knew about the importance of having old style buildings and the mayor may have thought that that would bring new people to the city.