The devil in the White City

5 - Comments
- One day on August 12, day Tuesday, four days after Olmsted and Codman arrived in Chicago, he filed a report with the exposition directors, who then, he chagrin made the report public and he also had the intention of the report for a professional audience for Jackson Park.
- Olmsted lectured the different factions needed to recognize that for the exposition to succeed everyone had to work together, no matter which location the directors selected.
- All Chicago can afford to take nothing less than the very best site that can be found for the fair, regardless of the special local interests of one quarter of the city or another. That every landscape element of the fair had to have one supreme object of everything that may be seen as a modestly contributive part of a grand whole.
- Olmsted next considered four specific candidates: that site an the lakeshore above the loop of two inland sites, one of which was Garfield Park on the western perimeter of the city and of Jackson Park. Olmsted himself prefer the northernmost site and he insisted Jackson Park could work and produce results of a pleasingly that becomes character such as having not hitherto been aimed at in world fair.
- Burnham hoped that his second report would at least compel a decision that delay was maddening. The board seemed unaware that Chicago now risked becoming a national, even global, temperament.\

4 - Question
- What is the importance of Jackson Park?
- What best site Chicago has that everybody in Chicago need to go?
- Why is Olmsted is really interested in Jackson Park?
- What does the landscape of the element of the fair have to do with the supreme object?
3 - Vocabulary
- exasperating = to irritate or provoke to a high degree; annoy extremely
- tonnage = the capacity of a merchant vessel, expressed either in units of weight, as deadweight tons, or of volume, as gross tons.
- terraces = To provide (a house, for example) with a terrace or terraces
2 - Literary Terms
- Simile = Chicago is like a big dump.
- Personification = Olmsted is a wild animal that is getting lost
1 - Overview
Olmsted is doing a project that is related to Jackson Park.