By hoarding its gifts, pinching its membership pennies, banking its small profits from admissions and borrowing wisely among its friends, Chicago's Art Institute, unlike most other U. S. museums, has managed to accumulate a $600,000 nest egg for a new building program. Last week the Institute announced plans for the first of three major additions which will eventually make the Institute a huge quadrangle of art between Michigan Avenue and the Outer Drive. No Chicago wiseacre was surprised to learn that the winner of the design competition was the Chicago architectural firm...
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