BURNHAM PLAN CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE

Saturday, November 21, 2009 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Global Warming: What's a Kid to Do?

Joliet Public Library

In the spirit of Daniel Burnham's forward-looking Plan of Chicago, Kidworks Touring Theatre Co. presents a “hands-on” exploration of climate changes around the world, told from the perspective of endangered animals and plants.
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Saturday, November 14, 2009 noon to 1:30pm

Bold Plans for the Next 100 Years

Chicago Humanities Festival

A panel of visionary designers and thinkers, including architect and planner Doug Farr and Cheryle Jackson, president of the Chicago Urban League and John Tolva, IBM, Director, Citizenship & Technology provide an exciting look into an imaginative future. Adele Simmons, vice chair of Chicago Metropolis 2020, moderates. Bold Plans for the Next 100 Years is part of the 2009 Chicago Humanities Festival. Two other Burnham Centennial-themed programs on November 14 are: [MORE]

Friday, November 6, 2009 4:00pm to 6:00pm

The Mannahatta Project: Manhattan Island Year 1609

City of Chicago

Have you ever wondered what New York was like before it was a city? In his keynote address to the Chicago Nature & Wildlife Research Summit, Dr. Eric W. Sanderson -- Senior Conservation Ecologist, Wildlife Conservation Society -- presents his work on the Mannahatta Project, an effort to reconstruct the landscape of Manhattan Island in 1609. [MORE]

Thursday, November 5, 2009 5:00pm to 7:00pm

Our Green Metropolis: The Next 100 Years

Mayor Daley's Nature and Wildlife Committee

The greatest legacy of the 1909 Plan was the regional green infrastructure it created. At this reception and special program, partners from around the region will announce the next steps for key Green Legacy projects and how the region can become a green metropolis.
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 5:30pm

Talks with the Team - October

Burnham Pavilions

Talks with the Team is a series of free informal tours of, and talks about the Burnham Pavilions featuring the staff and professionals involved with the project. The tours, which start at 5:30 pm every other Wednesday from July through October, give the public the opportunity to learn directly from the insiders about the planning, design, construction, techniques, artistry and technology involved in making the Burnham Pavilions a reality. [MORE]

Friday, October 23, 2009 4:00pm to 5:00pm

Chicago and the American Metropolis: Urban Policy and Our Region's Future

Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and Senior Advisor to the President for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs Valerie B. Jarrett will look ahead to the future of our city and region and how we can benefit from new priorities being set by the first White House Office of Urban Affairs. This timely civic conversation will be moderated by George A. Ranney, President and CEO of Chicago Metropolis 2020.
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Thursday, October 22, 2009 7:00pm

From City Beautiful to City Green: Chicago and the Evolution of its Regional Environment

Chicago Public Library

In 1909 in the Plan of Chicago, Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett responded to large problems in the city and its region -- problems that included the lack of public open and green spaces, and an ill-coordinated relationship of the city to its region.
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Saturday, October 10, 2009 9:30am to 12:30pm
Saturday, October 10, 2009 1:30pm to 4:30pm

Community Showcase Tours

Burnham Plan Centennial Committee

As part of One Book One Chicago programming, explore the unique stories and bold plans of six diverse Chicago neighborhoods as told through the voices of community leaders and residents.

The tours will depart from and return to the Chicago Cultural Center and include:

MORNING TOURS:  9:30 am - 12:30 pm (choose one) [MORE]

Wednesday, September 2, 2009 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 5:30pm to 6:30pm

Talks with the Team - September

Burnham Pavilions

Talks with the Team is a series of free informal tours of, and talks about the Burnham Pavilions featuring the staff and professionals involved with the project. The tours, which start at 5:30 pm every other Wednesday from July through October, give the public the opportunity to learn directly from the insiders about the planning, design, construction, techniques, artistry and technology involved in making the Burnham Pavilions a reality. [MORE]

Thursday, September 10, 2009 6:00pm to 8:00pm

First Voice: A Youth Discussion on the Next Century

American Planning Association

Radio Arte will youth lead a discussion discussion on the El Próximo Centenario (the Next Century) of Chicago. What will the next 100 years look like? The program will include the work of  youth who participated in Radio Arte’s summer training programs that explored: What will Chicago be like for youth of color? Immigrants? The LGBTQ community? Check out our presentation and listen to creative audio thoughts from Chicago’s future civic leaders. [MORE]

Exhibit : Friday, September 4, 2009 to Sunday, October 11, 2009

Big. Bold. Visionary. Chicago Considers the Next Century.

Burnham Plan Centennial Committee

Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago did more than provide a vision for Chicago in the 20th century. It established a precedent of dreaming big and thinking boldly that every generation of Chicagoans since has firmly embraced. This exhibition taps current Chicago architects, planners, and landscape architects for their visions of the city and region in the 21st century and beyond. [MORE]

Wednesday, July 22, 2009 5:30pm

Talks with the Team: Ed Uhlir and Adele Simmons

Burnham Pavilions

Talks with the Team is a series of free informal tours of, and talks about the Burnham Pavilions featuring the staff and professionals involved with the project. Learn directly from the insiders about the planning, design, construction, techniques, artistry and technology involved in making the Burnham Pavilions a reality. Each team member brings their own emphasis to the talk, and will share their unique perspective. July 22 Team Members include: [MORE]

Thursday, July 16, 2009 9:00am to 5:00pm

Burnham 100 x 100 Visioning Charrette

American Society of Landscape Architects - Illinois Chapter

The Illinois Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects and the Burnham Plan Centennial Committee invite you to celebrate the 2009 Centennial of Daniel Burnham’s “Plan of Chicago,” joining Chicago and the Midwest Region’s leading Landscape Architects at the Burnham 100 x 100 Visioning Charrette, to be held at the Chicago Cultural Center, Thursday, July 16th, 2009. [MORE]

Exhibit : Friday, June 19, 2009 to Sunday, November 1, 2009

Burnham Pavilions

Burnham Plan Centennial Committee

The iconic centerpieces of the Burnham Plan Centennial are two temporary architectural pavilions in Millennium Park. World renowned architects Zaha Hadid (London), and Ben van Berkel (UNStudio, Amsterdam) designed these bold Pavilions to echo the audacious future-looking images and words of the Burnham Plan: “What we as a people decide to [MORE]

Friday, June 19, 2009

Opening of Burnham Pavilions

Burnham Pavilions

The official opening of the Burnham Pavilions will occur on June 19, 2009 and celebrated by a concert by the Grant Park Music Festival featuring the world premier of Michael Torke’s Plans, a new work for symphony and chorus inspired by the Plan of Chicago. Torke’s new work will be paired with the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 composed in 1909. [MORE]

Friday, March 27, 2009 8:30am to 2:30pm

Professional Development Workshop for CPS Teachers

Burnham Plan Centennial Committee

The Burnham Plan Centennial in collaboration with the DePaul Center for Urban Education and the Chicago Public Schools; Office of Literacy, Instruction and Assessment invites third and eighth grade and special education teachers to participate in a special day-long workshop that will help teachers to make the city itself a vital part of the curriculum. [MORE]

Sunday, November 2, 2008 2:00pm to 3:30pm

Thinking Big: The Global City of the Future

Chicago Humanities Festival

How are cities around the world facing the challenges of the 21st century? Are the lessons of Burnham and Chicago relevant to shaping a more liveable and more fulfilling metropolis? This second program about the Burnham Plan and its legacy will tackle challenges facing Chicago and other global cities in the coming century. [MORE]

Sunday, November 2, 2008 noon to 1:30am

Thinking Big: The Plan Of Chicago: 100 Years of City-Building

Chicago Humanities Festival

Why is Chicago known as the city that gave birth to modern urban planning? What were the forces that came together in 1909 to produce Burnham and Bennett’s Plan of Chicago? Where are the imprints of this visionary plan on our regional landscape and how does it continue to inspire us 100 years later? [MORE]

Talks with the Team

Burnham Pavilions

Talks with the Team is a series of free informal tours of, and talks about the Burnham Pavilions featuring the staff and professionals involved with the project. The tours, which start at 5:30 pm every other Wednesday from July through October, give the public the opportunity to learn directly from the insiders about the planning, design, construction, techniques, artistry and technology involved in making the Burnham Pavilions a reality. Each team member brings their own emphasis to the talk, and will share their unique perspective. The schedule includes: [MORE]

Burnham Plan History Fair Awards

Burnham Plan Centennial Committee

In honor of the Centennial, the Burnham Plan Centennial Committee is launching an awards program to encourage High Schools students to explore the rich legacy and impact of the 1909 Plan of Chicago as the focus of their history fair exhibit, research paper, model, performance pieces, or media project. Cash awards of $100 will be given to projects of excellence that focus on, commemorate or draw inspiration from:

The Burnham and Bennett Plan of Chicago including: [MORE]

Chicago: Choices and Changes

Burnham Plan Centennial Committee

The 3rd grade unit, piloted in the spring of 2008, includes five lessons that introduce students to community building principles: people make choices, people make changes that affect how people live and work now and in the future; each person’s choice can make a difference. [MORE]

Chicago: City of Possibilities, Plans, Progress

Burnham Plan Centennial Committee

The 8th grade unit will draw from the Metro Joe curriculum to help students apply the vision of Burnham to Chicago today.  Students will learn how the metropolitan area is connected, why planning is essential to progress, how decisions can influence the future, what they can do to influence progress in their community, and that civic engagement has an impact [MORE]

Deer Grove Preserve

Forest Preserve District of Cook County

The Forest Preserve District of Cook County was created, in part, to carry out the Burnham Plan’s call for protecting valuable natural areas for future generations. The very first land acquired in 1916 was 500 acres of the west side of Deer Grove Forest Preserve. By the time of the Plan’s Centennial in 2009, the Preserve had expanded to include 1,800 acres of mixed upland savanna, grassland and wooded wetlands. [MORE]

Hack-ma-tack National Wildlife Refuge

Openlands

Creating a new national wildlife refuge of up to 10,000 acres spanning the Illinois-Wisconsin state line in the rapidly developing northwest part of the metropolitan area would dramatically advance the Green Legacy goal of preserving regionally significant open space. This bi-state area is home to a dramatic glacial landscape and to an extraordinary collection of diverse aquatic and terrestrial communities.

Heritage Park

Forest Preserve District of Will County

The Heritage Park Plan is a vision that weaves together an eight-mile corridor of green infrastructure features along the Des Plaines River and Illinois and Michigan Canal from Isle a la Cache (135th Street) through Lockport and into downtown Joliet. This plan advances the Green Legacy goal of connecting us to our rivers and streams. Another part of the plan meets the Green Legacy goal of preserving regionally significant open space through this year’s opening of Lincoln Landing.