Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

The remark reads as a characteristically forward-looking judgment from Wright, who associated Chicago with modern American architecture and urban possibility. By saying “eventually,” he frames beauty as something achieved over time—through planning, rebuilding, and the cumulative effect of architecture rather than inherited antiquity. The phrase “left in the world” implies a comparative decline elsewhere (war, overdevelopment, or loss of civic character), suggesting Chicago’s relative youth and capacity for reinvention could allow it to surpass older capitals. It also reflects Wright’s tendency to treat cities as moral and aesthetic projects: a great city’s beauty is not merely scenic, but the outcome of coherent design and civic ambition.