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” newspaper to advocate for extended streetcar franchises (10[1])in this city’s “Traction Wars.” A (10[1])never-built civic center and new public parks formed part of a 1909 City Beautiful plan for this city (-5[1])published by its Commercial Club, commonly known as the Burnham Plan. Gustavus Swift’s development of the refrigerated railcar led to the rapid growth of an industry in (10[1])this city (10[1]-5[1])whose wrongdoings were documented in (10[1])Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle. (10[3]-5[1])For 10 points, name this Great Lakes city, (10[2])whose waterfront was home to the development of Millennium Park and Grant Park. ■END■ (10[2])

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