Background
Charles Henry Wacker was born on August 29, 1856 in Chicago, Illinois. He was the only child of Frederick Wacker, a German emigrant who settled in Chicago in 1854, and his wife, Catharine Hummel.
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Address of Charles H. Wacker, Chairman Chicago Plan Commission, in Favor of the Petition of the South Park Commissioners to the United States ... Chicago Between Grant Park and Jackson Park
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An Appeal to Business Men: Provide Work Now for the Unemployed; Relation of National Prosperity to City Planning; Business and the Chicago Plan (Classic Reprint)
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Address by Charles H. Wacker at a Meeting of the Chicago Plan Commission, Held at the Hotel Sherman on November 4, 1926 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Address by Charles H. Wacker at a Meeting of the Chicago Plan Commission, Held at the Hotel Sherman on November 4, 1926 I am in full accord with this thought, except that I believe the time is at hand right now for the immediate introduction of such schools as a public need. In the same magazine I found another article with which I was so much im pressed that I feel called upon to quote from it also. The title of this paper was The Philosophy of City Planning, and it was written by the Hon. James M. Curley, Mayor of Boston, who said. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Charles Henry Wacker
Edit ProfileEducation
He was educated in the schools of Chicago and studied one year at Lake Forest Academy.
Career
He started in business as an office boy, 1872-76, in the firm of Carl C. Moeller & Company, grain commissioners, and then toured Europe and Africa for three years, spending sometime studying in Stuttgart and Geneva. Returning to his position in 1879, he remained there until the following year when his father took him into partnership in the malting business to form the firm of F. Wacker & Son, which in 1882 became Wacker & Birk Brewing and Malting Company. From 1884 until 1901 he was president of this firm, and, from 1895 to 1901, he was also president of the McAvoy Brewing Company, with which it was consolidated in 1889. In 1901 he turned his attention to real estate and, from 1902 to 1928, he was president of the Chicago Heights Land Association. His interest in civic affairs was given an impetus by his connection with the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 as a member of the board of directors and of various committees. He became an enthusiastic supporter and eventually the leader of a movement, started by the Merchants and Commercial Clubs, to beautify the city of Chicago. He was vice-chairman of the Merchants Club's Committee from 1907 to 1909, and its chairman for a short time in 1909. In 1909 Mayor Busse and the City Council created the Chicago Plan Commission to improve and beautify Chicago's "loop" and lake front, and appointed Wacker chairman. He held this position until Nov. 4, 1926, when he resigned because of illness. He was made secretary of the Chicago Zoning Commission in 1920, was president of the Chicago Relief and Aid Society, and, when it merged with the Chicago Bureau of Charities to form the United Charities of Chicago, became (1909 - 12) the first president of that body. He was a director of many important companies, and a member of a great many social clubs, German clubs, and singing societies. Some of his articles and addresses on the Chicago Plan were published; among them are An S-O-S to the Public Spirited Citizens of Chicago (1924) and articles in the American City, October 1909, and in Art and Archeology, September-October 1921.
Achievements
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He championed the Burnham Plan for improving Chicago. His work to promote the plan included addresses, obtaining wide publicity from newspapers, and publishing Wacker's Manual of the Plan of Chicago (by Walter D. Moody) as a textbook for local schoolchildren. In appreciation of his remarkable work and untiring efforts in sponsoring and developing the Chicago Plan, the City Council renamed South Water Street, the double-decked drive along the river, which Wacker had been most influential in securing as a part of the Plan, Wacker Drive. In 1921 he was awarded a medal of honor by the Société Française des Architectes. Wacker Drive, built as part of the Burnham Plan, and Charles H. Wacker Elementary School are named in his honor.
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An Appeal to Business Men: Provide Work Now for the Unemployed; Relation of National Prosperity to City Planning; Business and the Chicago Plan (Classic Reprint)
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Address of Charles H. Wacker, Chairman Chicago Plan Commission, in Favor of the Petition of the South Park Commissioners to the United States ... Chicago Between Grant Park and Jackson Park
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Address by Charles H. Wacker at a Meeting of the Chicago Plan Commission, Held at the Hotel Sherman on November 4, 1926 (Classic Reprint)
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An Appeal to Business Men: Provide Work Now for the Unemployed; Relation of National Prosperity to City Planning; Business and the Chicago Plan (Classic Reprint)
Connections
He was twice married, first to Ottilie Marie Glade on May 10, 1887, and, after her death, to Ella G. Todtmann, March 19, 1919. By the first marriage there were two sons and a daughter, who, with his second wife, survived him.
