Round 9: 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” newspaper to advocate for extended streetcar franchises in this city’s “Traction Wars.” A never-built civic center and new public parks formed part of a 1909 City Beautiful plan (10[1])for this city published by its Commercial Club, commonly known as the Burnham Plan. (10[2])Gustavus Swift’s development of the refrigerated railcar led to the rapid growth of an industry in this city whose wrongdoings were documented in Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle. (10[1])For 10 points, name this Great Lakes city, whose waterfront was home to the development of Millennium Park and Grant Park. ■END■

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