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Philippines.
Chicago honored him six years ago with The Burnham Plan Centennial:
Bold Plans and Big Dreams. It included a work commissioned in his honor,
performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; a documentary of his life –
Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City; and recognition
of his Swedenborgian commitment to “being of service.”
Kathy Coffin-Piepgras, who graduated from the Academy Girls School in
1961, worked on that event. She quoted the woman who made the documentary
as saying: “One of the tenets of Swedenborgianism is to be useful. Burnham’s
parents were leaders in the church. He was steeped in this belief of being
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