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Flashback: Lake Shore Drive -- Chicago Tribune | Lake shore drive, Lakeshore, Park lane hotel

Both a boulevard and one of the nation's first superhighways, Lake Shore Drive arguably showcases Chicago like no other street does. The campaign for a waterfront boulevard occurred in 1899, when Potter Palmer asked for a street improvement in front of his mansion at 1350 N Lake Shore Drive. The Tribune reported, "Mr. Palmer said he would not object to putting a sea wall farther out into the lake and having a strip of land filled."City fathers considered that newly created acreage ripe for…

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