City of the Century
Subtitle: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America
Edition: First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Published: April 3, 1997
Place of publication: New York, USA; London, UK; Toronto, Canada; Sydney, Australia
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 704
ISBN-13: 9780684831381
Copyright date: 1996
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Cultural studies; c 1800 to c 1900; United States - State & Local - General; History - U.S.; History; History: American; USA; General; United States - 20th Century; History / United States / 20th Century; Chicago (Ill.)
First sentence: WHEN Louis Sullivan arrived in Chicago from the East to begin his architectural career, he felt he had been chosen for a special destiny and that this rejuvenated city was "the place" for him.
Notes: Picture section designed by Barbara Marks.
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: 15; label: Part I
pagenum: 21; label: 1
title: Discovery
pagenum: 27; label: 1.
title: The Priest and the Explorer
pagenum: 27; label: 2.
title: Joliet's Dream
pagenum: 41; label: 2
title: "Didn't Expect No Town"
pagenum: 48; label: 1.
title: Wild Chicago
pagenum: 48; label: 2.
title: Banishing the Past
pagenum: 58; label: 3
title: Ogden's Chicago
pagenum: 66; label: 1.
title: The Founder
pagenum: 66; label: 2.
title: A Prairie Aristocrat
pagenum: 76; label: 3.
title: The Grid and the Balloon Frame
pagenum: 81; label: 4
title: The Great Chicago Exchange Engine
pagenum: 89; label: 1.
title: The Big Junction
pagenum: 89; label: 2.
title: The Mechanical Man
pagenum: 103; label: 3.
title: Stacker of Wheat and Wood, Packer of Pork
pagenum: 106; label: 5
title: Empire City of the West
pagenum: 122; label: 1.
title: Chicago Against Nature
pagenum: 122; label: 2.
title: City of Extremes
pagenum: 131; label: 6
title: My Lost City
pagenum: 143; label: 1.
title: The Great Fire
pagenum: 143; label: 2.
title: Unapproachable in Calamity
pagenum: 158; label: Part II
pagenum: 173; title: Introduction: Let Us Build Ourselves a City
pagenum: 176; label: 7
title: That Astonishing Chicago
pagenum: 179; label: 1.
title: "Grander and Statelier Than Ever"
pagenum: 179; label: 2.
title: America's City
pagenum: 188; label: 8
title: The Chicago Machine
pagenum: 198; label: 1.
title: Empires of Order and Blood
pagenum: 198; label: 2.
title: A Fortress of Oppression
pagenum: 216; label: 3.
title: The Pullman Idea
pagenum: 224; label: 4.
title: Steel Rails to Country Kitchens
pagenum: 240; label: 9
title: The Streetcar City
pagenum: 254; label: 1.
title: Palaces of Desire
pagenum: 254; label: 2.
title: The Loop
pagenum: 265; label: 3.
title: City and Suburb
pagenum: 273; label: 4.
title: Sunday in Chicago
pagenum: 294; label: 10
title: Stories in Stone and Steel
pagenum: 301; label: 1.
title: Something New Under the Sun
pagenum: 301; label: 2.
title: Burnham and Root
pagenum: 314; label: 3.
title: The Major's Birdcage
pagenum: 335; label: 4.
title: Factories in the Sky
pagenum: 347; label: 11
title: Sullivan and Civic Renewal
pagenum: 354; label: 1.
title: The Auditorium
pagenum: 354; label: 2.
title: A Proud and Soaring Thing
pagenum: 366; label: 12
title: The New Chicago
pagenum: 378; label: 1.
title: Burnham's White City
pagenum: 378; label: 2.
title: Hutchinson's Three-Ring Circus
pagenum: 385; label: 3.
title: Harper's University
pagenum: 393; label: 4.
title: The Social Defense of Caste
pagenum: 404; label: 5.
title: The New Chicago Woman
pagenum: 413; label: 6.
title: Cleansing the City
pagenum: 423; label: 13
title: The Battle for Chicago
pagenum: 435; label: 1.
title: Politics "Ain't Bean Bag"
pagenum: 435; label: 2.
title: Why the Ward Boss Rules
pagenum: 452; label: 3.
title: Haymarket
pagenum: 468; label: 4.
title: It's Harrison Again
pagenum: 482; label: 14
title: 1893
pagenum: 488; label: 1.
title: The Fair
pagenum: 488; label: 2.
title: The "Gomorrah of the West"
pagenum: 505; label: 3.
title: Stories of the Streets and of the Town
pagenum: 516; label: 15
title: After the Fair
pagenum: 533; label: 1.
title: If Christ Came to Chicago!
pagenum: 533; label: 2.
title: Regeneration
pagenum: 542; title: Notes
pagenum: 555; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 639; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 683; title: Index
pagenum: 685