Round 11: 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” (-5[1])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 (10[1])plan for this city published by its Commercial Club, commonly known as the Burnham Plan. (10[1])Gustavus Swift’s development of the refrigerated railcar (10[2])led to the rapid growth of an industry in this city whose wrongdoings were documented in Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle. For 10 points, name this Great Lakes city, whose waterfront was home to the development of Millennium Park and Grant (10[1])Park. ■END■

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