Chicago : a biography
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University of Chicago Press,
Chicago ;
c2009.
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- ISBN: 9780226644318 (hc) :
- Physical Description: 462 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm.print
- Publisher: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, c2009.
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [413]-433) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note: Introduction: Writing an urban biography -- Location, location, location! -- Emporium of the West -- The era of urban chaos -- Reacting to chaos : Pullman, the West Side, and the Loop -- The progressive and not so progressive city -- The immigrant capital and World War I -- Twentieth-century metropolis -- Years of crises : Depression and war -- Chicago after the war : changing times -- Daley's city -- Apocalypse "now" or regeneration? -- Conclusion: Transforming Chicago and America.