Editing Carter Harrison III (section)

===Infrastructure and public safety===
At the time he took office, Chicago had nearly a half-million residents.<ref name="themayors">{{cite web |last1=Green |first1=Paul M. |last2=Holli |first2=Melvin G. |title=The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition, fourth edition |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=-L_shTgapuIC |publisher=SIU Press |access-date=May 22, 2020 |pages=17–19 |language=en |date=January 10, 2013}}</ref> However, it was still a developing city.<ref name="themayors"/> Harrison would later remark that, when he took office as mayor, "there were not ten miles of paved street in the whole city over which a light vehicle could move rapidly without injury to wheel or axle.”<ref name="themayors"/> Long a [[boosterism|booster]] of his adopted city, Harrison was known to refer to Chicago as his "bride".<ref name="themayors"/> Harrison significantly increased the city's number of paved roads and sidewalks in its downtown and increased the size and improved the efficiency of its fire department.<ref name=cityofthecentury>{{cite book |last1=Miller |first1=Donald L. |title=City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America |date=2014 |publisher=Rosetta Books |isbn=978-0-7953-3985-1 |pages=665, 678, 683, 731–732, 735, 738 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=_WlsDwAAQBAJ |access-date=May 23, 2020 |language=en}}</ref> Harrison also forced utility companies operating in the central business district to bury their wires.<ref name=cityofthecentury/> Harrison fought the [[Illinois Central Railroad]]'s right to the lakefront,<ref name=cityofthecentury/> a legal battle which was ultimately taken by the State of Illinois to [[Supreme Court of the United States]] in ''[[Illinois Central Railroad Co. v. Illinois]]''. He also worked to persuade railroads to begin elevating their tracks to eliminate [[level crossing]]s.<ref name=cityofthecentury/> He also attempted to push measures in the City Council that would have required locomotives, [[steamships]] and [[tugboats]] to burn [[anthracite]],<ref name=cityofthecentury/> which burned cleaner. He also attempted to have the city build new and longer public water system intake pipes.<ref name=cityofthecentury/>