Editing Plano, Illinois (section)

===The Farnsworth House===
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[[File:Farnsworth House (5923833310).jpg|thumb|left|The Farnsworth House in July 2011]]
Master Architect [[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]] had worked on a retreat for Dr. Edith Farnsworth, a doctor from Chicago, whose complicated relationship with the architect soured the project. Cost overruns as well as questions on the house's actual usefulness led to a lawsuit between the two parties, with van der Rohe winning the suit.<ref>{{cite web|last=Goldberger|first=Paul|title=Farnsworth: The Lightness of Being |url=http://www.preservationnation.org/magazine/2004/july-august/ja04feature2.html |work=Preservation Magazine|access-date=6 May 2012}}</ref>  In later years, the County Board decided to buy some of Farnsworth's land in order to straighten Fox River Drive (Ben Street in Plano), which would need a new bridge as well. Farnsworth pleaded her case to the County Board, citing evidence that the Board would be doing construction on an old Indian Site, but to no avail.  The road was straightened and the new bridge built; however, to this day, the old bridge piers are still visible.<ref>{{cite web|title=Biography of Dr. Edith Farnsworth |url=http://www.farnsworthhouse.org/pdf/staff/Chapter%203C%20-%20Biography%20of%20Farnsworth.pdf |access-date=6 May 2012}}</ref> Around the same time, [[Silver Springs State Fish and Wildlife Area|Silver Springs State Park and Wildlife Area]] was designated, down the road and across the river from [[Farnsworth House|Farnsworth's house]], forever protecting the land from development.<ref>{{cite web |title=Silver Springs History |url=http://dnr.state.il.us/lands/landmgt/parks/r2/silversp.htm |publisher=IDNR |access-date=6 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120519080207/http://dnr.state.il.us/lands/landmgt/parks/R2/SILVERSP.HTM |archive-date=19 May 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>  
<!--(May 6, 2012-Adding References; could not find the following anywhere. Feel free to uncomment once this is cited) According to the preservation trust, had the land across from the house was not been turned into a park or preserve of some kind, the area would have certainly been developed, and the house possibly destroyed to make room for future development.
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