Packet M: Tossup 7

Historian Libby Hill found no historical evidence of an 1885 cholera epidemic in this city that apocryphally prompted a new canal to be built. Business magnate Charles Yerkes bought this city’s “Inter Ocean” (10[2]-5[1])newspaper (10[1])to advocate for extended streetcar franchises (10[1])in this city’s “Traction Wars.” (10[1]-5[1])A (10[1])never-built civic center and new public parks formed part of a 1909 City Beautiful (10[2])plan (10[2])for this city (-5[1])published (10[1])by its Commercial Club, commonly known as the Burnham Plan. (10[6])Gustavus (10[2])Swift’s development of the refrigerated railcar (10[3])led to the rapid growth of an (10[1])industry in (10[1])this city (10[1]-5[1])whose (10[1])wrongdoings were documented (10[2])in (10[1])Upton Sinclair’s (10[1])book (10[2])The Jungle. (10[10]-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this Great Lakes city, (10[2])whose waterfront was home to the development of Millennium Park and Grant (10[1])Park. ■END■ (10[3])

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