This scarce promotional bird's-eye view was produced locally to promote the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. It extends to include Garfield Park, Lincoln Park and beyond Jackson Park to the south. The city is drawn in fine detail with hundreds of individual homes and buildings shown, as well as railroads, streetcars, and steam ship routes overprinted in red. The lake and park areas are overprinted in green. The small inset "View of Chicago in 1832" is at lower right. Along the bottom are the names of 23 important places keyed to the view. The verso has an 11"x 12" map of the Exposition and a 9"x 15" lithograph of the exposition surrounded by illustrations of structures in Chicago including the six train depots. A most uncommon issue that is "Copyright, 1892, by Peter Roy, Chicago, Ill".

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Condition: B+

Issued folding with light toning, minor extraneous creasing along one fold, and archival repairs to a few splits at the fold junctions. There is an old library stamp for "Archives des Ursulines Quebec" on verso.