No Little Plans: Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium
The legendary Gilded Age Chicago architect Daniel Burnham is quoted as saying to his fellows “Make no little plans” when they were designing the fabled White City at the Colombian Exposition of 1893, and that sentiment has carried on into many of the countless architectural achievements of the Windy City. The sentiment was, and is, certainly found of the magnificent Shedd Aquarium, which, along with the Field Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago, is one of the crown Jewels of Grant Park. In a city famed for it’s stunning architecture and world-class amenities, that the Shedd is such a standout structure is no mean feat. In the early 1920’s Chicago, Illinois was one of the few major metropolises in the world that could not boast its own major aquarium, so the former president of Marshall Fields
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