{"id":76008,"date":"2019-02-07T16:48:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T22:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=76008"},"modified":"2019-02-21T16:04:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T22:04:30","slug":"chicago-mayors-a-mixed-legacy-on-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/chicago-mayors-a-mixed-legacy-on-the-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago mayors: A mixed legacy on the environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Dwight A. Weingarten<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Medill Reports<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">When Chicago\u2019s first Mayor William B. Ogden took office in 1837, he along with two alderman crafted the city seal.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s motto,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chipublib.org\/chicago-facts\/\"> \u201cUrbs in Horto,\u201d<\/a> or City in a Garden, that appears at the bottom of the seal, quickly lost much of its literal meaning even with huge parks left amid all the development. Ogden himself, upon leaving office, helped transform the city into one of the nation\u2019s leading railway hubs over the course of the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>As the world discusses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/greta_thunberg_the_disarming_case_to_act_right_now_on_climate?language=en\">the impacts of climate change,<\/a> Chicago mayors have taken\u00a0 role in that conversation. Take a look back at Chicago mayors key moments in the environment and development of the city.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/cdn.knightlab.com\/libs\/timeline3\/latest\/embed\/index.html?source=1VjuKo3YDncQvLUEnmb5xcSJ71qP6YTmii3EzXl7DDhI&amp;font=Default&amp;lang=en&amp;initial_zoom=2&amp;height=650\" width=\"100%\" height=\"650\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: Chicago\u2019s city seal, collaged here, pays homage to the natural landscape when the city was established. The next mayor, with candidates debating at a recent forum, will inherit a mixed legacy of environmental action taken by mayors, city and civic leaders and citizens groups. (Photo: http:\/\/www.chicagob2b.net\/ [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dwight A. Weingarten Medill Reports When Chicago\u2019s first Mayor William B. Ogden took office in 1837, he along with two alderman crafted the city seal. The city\u2019s motto, \u201cUrbs in Horto,\u201d or City in a Garden, that appears at the bottom of the seal, quickly lost much of its literal meaning even with huge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":549,"featured_media":76037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29,2951,30,4559],"tags":[4645,4646,147,653],"class_list":["post-76008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-and-science","category-politicsnational-security","category-public-affairs","category-winter-2019","tag-chicago-department-of-environment","tag-chicago-mayoral-election-2019","tag-rahm-emanuel","tag-richard-m-daley"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chicago mayors: A mixed legacy on the environment - Medill Reports Chicago<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/chicago-mayors-a-mixed-legacy-on-the-environment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chicago mayors: A mixed legacy on the environment - Medill Reports Chicago\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Dwight A. 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