 Aaron Montgomery Ward twice sued the city of Chicago to force it to remove buildings and structures from Grant Park and to keep it from building new ones.The second suit was still pending in 1906 and the legal cloud regarding deliberations of architectural limitations in Grant Park caused inaction.While the trustees remained silent, Taft sought wider public support by publishing a picture of "Spirit of the Great Lakes" in "Century Magazine", which drew interest from Buffalo, New York as a host of the final work.