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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
Preface
Part I
Introduction: City of Dreamers and Doers
1 Discovery
1. THE PRIEST AND THE EXPLORER
2. JOLIET'S DREAM
2 "Didn't Expect No Town"
1. WILD CHICAGO
2. BANISHING THE PAST
3 Ogden's Chicago
1. THE FOUNDER
2. A PRAIRIE ARISTOCRACY
3. THE GRID AND THE BALLOON FRAME
4 The Great Chicago Exchange Engine
1. THE BIG JUNCTION
2. THE MECHANICAL MAN
3. STACKER OF WHEAT AND WOOD, PACKER OF PORK
5 Empire City of the West
1. CHICAGO AGAINST NATURE
2. CITY OF EXTREMES
6 My Lost City
1. THE GREAT FIRE
2. UNAPPROACHABLE IN CALAMITY
Part II
Introduction: Let Us Build Ourselves a City
7 That Astonishing Chicago
1. "GRANDER AND STATELIER THAN EVER"
2. AMERICA'S CITY
8 The Chicago Machine
1. EMPIRES OF ORDER AND BLOOD
2. A FORTRESS OF OPPRESSION
3. THE PULLMAN IDEA
4. STEEL RAILS TO COUNTRY KITCHENS
9 The Streetcar City
1. PALACES OF DESIRE
2. THE LOOP
3. CITY AND SUBURB
4. SUNDAY IN CHICAGO
10 Stories in Stone and Steel
1. SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN
2. BURNHAM AND ROOT
3. THE MAJOR'S BIRDCAGE
4. FACTORIES IN THE SKY
11 Sullivan and Civic Renewal
1. THE AUDITORIUM
2. A PROUD AND SOARING THING
12 The New Chicago
1. BURNHAM'S WHITE CITY
2. HUTCHINSON'S THREE-RING CIRCUS
3. HARPER'S UNIVERSITY
4. THE SOCIAL DEFENSE OF CASTE
5. THE NEW CHICAGO WOMAN
6. CLEANSING THE CITY
13 The Battle for Chicago
1. POLITICS "AIN'T BEAN BAG"
2. WHY THE WARD BOSS RULES
3. HAYMARKET
4. IT'S HARRISON AGAIN
14 1893
1. THE FAIR
2. THE "GOMORRAH OF THE WEST"
3. STORIES OF THE STREETS AND OF THE TOWN
15 After the Fair
1. IF CHRIST CAME TO CHICAGO!
2. REGENERATION
Abbreviations
Notes
Illustrations
Endnotes
Acknowledgments
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