Line Of Parks For Chicago

System of Outing Places to Girdle the City Contemplated.

Chicago is bent on absorbing every town and hamlet in Cook county now outside of the city limits, says the New York World. An "outer belt line of parks" extending 120 miles around Chicago is the object of a resolution adopted by the county board.

This action was suggested by President Foreman because of the probable rapid increase in the population of the city. He says:

"The time has come when steps should be taken to create an outer belt line of parks and boulevards. Such a system should embrace the east side of the present inner belt line, extended northward, say, to Winnetka and southward to near the mouth of the Calumet river. Thence the outer belt line could extend up the valley of the Calumet to Blue Island, thence northward to the Desplaines river and onward, following the valley of that stream to a point northwest of Chicago and thence eastward, embracing the Skoki valley and finally forming a junction with the Sheridan road at or near Winnetka."