Visiting Chicago for the dedication of the Outer Drive Bridge, President Roosevelt used the opportunity to deliver a speech on foreign policy. Known as the "Quarantine Speech," he called on all peace loving nations to condemn and isolate the…
Franklin D. Roosevelt waves to the crowd as his motorcade passes by. Part of the day long celebration of the dedication of Chicago's Outer Drive Bridge, this image from the motorcade shows Roosevelt seated next to a Catholic priest. Roosevelt, the…
Seated in the rear of a limousine, President Franklin Roosevelt (left), Illinois Governor Henry Horner (center), Chicago Mayor Edward Kelly (right rear), and Illinois U.S. Senator William H. Dieterich (front right) ride together on the day of the…
Crowds look on as the presidential motorcade for Outer Drive Bridge dedication proceeds along Michigan Avenue, passing by one the Art Institute of Chicago's famous lion statues.
Although construction began in 1929, the opening of the Outer Drive Bridge in Chicago did not occur until 1937, when President Franklin Roosevelt visited the city to dedicate the bridge. The Public Works Administration, one of Roosevelt's many New…
Governor Henry Horner (front row, second from left), Illinois U.S. Senator William H. Dieterich (front row, third from left), Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes (front row, fourth from left), and other dignitaries on the reviewing stand at the…
Chicago Mayor Edward J. Kelly (1933-1947) speaks at the dedication of the Outer Drive Bridge, while Henry Horner (seated on right) listens. Kelly rose in Chicago politics as the chief engineer of the Chicago Sanitary District in the 1920s. As mayor,…