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Preface | p. 15 |
Discovery | p. 27 |
The Priest and the Explorer | p. 27 |
Joliet's Dream | p. 41 |
"Didn't Expect No Town" | p. 48 |
Wild Chicago | p. 48 |
Banishing the Past | p. 58 |
Odgen's Chicago | p. 66 |
The Founder | p. 66 |
A Prairie Aristocracy | p. 76 |
The Grid and the Balloon Frame | p. 81 |
The Great Chicago Exchange Engine | p. 89 |
The Big Junction | p. 89 |
The Mechanical Man | p. 103 |
Stacker of Wheat and Wood, Packer of Pork | p. 106 |
Empire City of the West | p. 122 |
Chicago Against Nature | p. 122 |
City of Extremes | p. 131 |
My Lost City | p. 143 |
The Great Fire | p. 143 |
Unapproachable in Calamity | p. 158 |
That Astonishing Chicago | p. 179 |
"Grander and Statelier Than Ever" | p. 179 |
America's City | p. 188 |
The Chicago Machine | p. 198 |
Empires of Order and Blood | p. 198 |
A Fortress of Oppression | p. 216 |
The Pullman Idea | p. 224 |
Steel Rails to Country Kitchens | p. 240 |
The Streetcar City | p. 254 |
Palaces of Desire | p. 254 |
The Loop | p. 265 |
City and Suburb | p. 273 |
Sunday in Chicago | p. 294 |
Stories in Stone and Steel | p. 301 |
Something New Under the Sun | p. 301 |
Burnham and Root | p. 314 |
The Major's Birdcage | p. 335 |
Factories in the Sky | p. 347 |
Sullivan and Civic Renewal | p. 354 |
The Auditorium | p. 354 |
A Proud and Soaring Thing | p. 366 |
The New Chicago | p. 378 |
Burnham's White City | p. 378 |
Hutchinson's Three-Ring Circus | p. 385 |
Harper's University | p. 393 |
The Social Defense of Caste | p. 404 |
The New Chicago Woman | p. 413 |
Cleansing the City | p. 423 |
The Battle for Chicago | p. 435 |
Politics "Ain't Bean Bag" | p. 435 |
Why the Ward Boss Rules | p. 452 |
Haymarket | p. 468 |
It's Harrison Again | p. 482 |
1893 | p. 488 |
The Fair | p. 488 |
The "Gomorrah of the West" | p. 505 |
Stories of the Streets and of the Town | p. 516 |
After the Fair | p. 533 |
If Christ Came to Chicago! | p. 533 |
Regeneration | p. 542 |
Notes | p. 555 |
Bibliography | p. 639 |
Acknowledgements | p. 683 |
Index | p. 685 |
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