| Description |
704 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
ch. 1. Discovery. The priest and the explorer ; Joliet's dream -- ch. 2. "Didn't expect no town". Wild Chicago ; Banishing the past -- ch. 3. Odgen's Chicago. The founder ; A prairie aristocracy ; The grid and the balloon frame -- ch. 4. The great Chicago exchange engine. The big junction ; The mechanical man ; Stacker of wheat and wood, packer of pork -- ch. 5. Empire City of the West. Chicago Against Nature ; City of Extremes -- ch .6. My Lost City. The great fire ; Unapproachable in calamity -- ch. 7. That astonishing Chicago ; "Grander and statelier than ever" ; America's city -- ch. 8. The Chicago machine. Empires of order and blood ; A fortress of oppression ; The Pullman idea ; Steel rails to country kitchens -- ch. 9. The streetcar city. Palaces of desire ; The loop ; City and suburb ; Sunday in Chicago -- ch. 10. Stories in stone and steel. Something new under the sun ; Burnham and root ; The major's birdcage ; Factories in the sky -- ch. 11. Sullivan and civic renewal. The auditorium ; A proud and soaring thing -- ch. 12. 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 -- ch. 13. The Battle for Chicago. Politics "ain't bean bag" ; Why the ward boss rules ; Haymarket ; It's Harrison again -- ch. 14. 1893. The Fair ; The "Gomorrah of the west" ; Stories of the streets and of the town -- ch. 15. After the Fair. If Christ came to Chicago! ; Regeneration. |
| Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Chicago (Ill.) -- History.
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| ISBN |
0684801949 |
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