Daniel Burnham was born in 1846 and was one of the Chicago architects responsible for the earliest development of the American skyscraper. Burnham designed the Flatiron Building in New York in 1902 and the Beaux-Arts Union Station in Washington, DC, - the linchpin that made development of the monumental mall possible  by removing the Pennsylvania Railroad's right-of-way along it. Daniel Burnham was the co-author of the Chicago Plan which laid out plans fro the future of Chicago in 1909. It was the first comprehensive plan for the controlled growth of an American city. The plan included ambitious proposals for the lakefront and river and declared that every citizen should be within walking distance of a park. Request for Burnham plans for other cities followed: for Cleveland, San Francisco, and the Mall in Washington, DC.
Daniel Burnham made big plans. And, those plan made a difference in his community.
I also want to share with you another quote by someone very special to me. He made big plans, with outcomes that stirred men's souls. He aimed high in his hope and in his work, his faith and his family...and in his community. In 1988 Jesse Jackson was quoted …