| Description |
704 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [553]-682) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: City of dreamers and doers -- Discovery. The priest and the explorer ; Joliet's dream -- "Didn't expect no town." Wild Chicago ; Banishing the past -- Ogden's Chicago. The founder ; A prairie aristocracy ; The grid and the balloon frame -- The great Chicago exchange engine. The big junction ; The mechanical man ; Stacker of wheat and wood, packer of pork -- Empire city of the West. Chicago against nature ; City of extremes -- My lost city. The Great Fire ; Unapproachable in calamity. -- Introduction: Let us build ourselves a city -- That astonishing Chicago. "Grander and statelier than ever" ; America's city -- The Chicago machine. Empires of order and blood ; A fortress of oppression ; The Pullman idea ; Steel rails to country kitchens -- The streetcar city. Palaces of desire ; The Loop ; City and suburb ; Sunday in Chicago -- Stories in stone and steel. Something new under the sun ; Burnham and Root ; The major's birdcage ; Factories in the sky -- Sullivan and civic renewal. The Auditorium ; A proud and soaring thing -- The new Chicago. Burnham's White city ; Hutchinson's three-ring circus ; Harper's university ; The social defense of caste ; The new Chicago woman ; Cleansing the city -- The battle for Chicago. Politics "ain't bean bag" ; Why the ward boss rules ; Haymarket ; It's Harrison again -- 1893. The Fair ; The "Gomorrah of the West" ; Stories of the streets and of the town -- After the Fair. If Christ came to Chicago! ; Regeneration. |
| Subject |
Chicago (Ill.) -- History.
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| ISBN |
0684801949 |
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0684831384 (pbk.) |
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