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- Daniel Hudson Burnham - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up)
(1846-1912). After fire destroyed much of Chicago in 1871, U.S. architect and urban planner Daniel Hudson Burnham helped to rebuild the city. Some of his most famous buildings include the Rookery (1886), the Reliance (1890), and the Monadnock (1891). His ability to anticipate the future needs of the city led him (with Edward H. Bennett) to draw up the Burnham Plan (1907-09), which for many years was used as the basis for city planning in Chicago. Among his visionary ideas was providing for a ring of forest preserves in outlying areas and along the city’s lakefront to ensure a future green belt against a projected population explosion.