Peachy the Magazine March 2014 | Page 54

Second to None ultimately made the city keen for more of the same, and yet the cost of major works was often prohibitive and difficult to justify when streets needed paving and other city services were lacking. PUBLIC ART ENGAGES Reconciling a desire for a premier public arts program with the constraints of a limited budget prompted the city of Chicago to pay attention to something that had happened back East, at the hands of a rather brilliant Philadelphia lawyer. Michael von Moschzisker was a strapping man standing 6'3", loo