The voyage that brought them to the site of Chicago had its origins in a spectacular pageant of possession in the wilderness of the northern lakes.
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City of the Century
The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America
First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition
by Donald L. Miller
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From back cover: The epic of Chicago is the story of the emergence of modern America. Here, witness Chicago's growth from a desolate fur-trading post in the 1830s to one of the world's most explosively alive cities by 1900. [This] powerful narrative embraces it all: reckless growth, its natural calamities (especially the Great Fire of 1871), its raucous politics, its empire-building businessmen, its world-transforming architecture, its rich mix of cultures, its community of young writers and journalists, and its staggering engineering projects -- which included the reversal of the Chicago River and raising the entire city from prairie mud to save it from devastating cholera epidemics. The saga of Chicago's unresolved struggle between order and freedom, growth and control, capitalism and community, remains instructive for our time, as we seek ways to build and maintain cities that retain their humanity without losing their energy.
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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."
Table of Contents
Preface
Page 15
Part I.
Page 21
1.
Discovery
Page 27
1.
The Priest and the Explorer
Page 27
2.
Joliet's Dream
Page 41
2.
"Didn't Expect No Town"
Page 48
1.
Wild Chicago
Page 48
2.
Banishing the Past
Page 58
3.
Ogden's Chicago
Page 66
1.
The Founder
Page 66
2.
A Prairie Aristocrat
Page 76
3.
The Grid and the Balloon Frame
Page 81
4.
The Great Chicago Exchange Engine
Page 89
1.
The Big Junction
Page 89
2.
The Mechanical Man
Page 103
3.
Stacker of Wheat and Wood, Packer of Pork
Page 106
5.
Empire City of the West
Page 122
1.
Chicago Against Nature
Page 122
2.
City of Extremes
Page 131
6.
My Lost City
Page 143
1.
The Great Fire
Page 143
2.
Unapproachable in Calamity
Page 158
Part II.
Page 173
Introduction: Let Us Build Ourselves a City
Page 176
7.
That Astonishing Chicago
Page 179
1.
"Grander and Statelier Than Ever"
Page 179
2.
America's City
Page 188
8.
The Chicago Machine
Page 198
1.
Empires of Order and Blood
Page 198
2.
A Fortress of Oppression
Page 216
3.
The Pullman Idea
Page 224
4.
Steel Rails to Country Kitchens
Page 240
9.
The Streetcar City
Page 254
1.
Palaces of Desire
Page 254
2.
The Loop
Page 265
3.
City and Suburb
Page 273
4.
Sunday in Chicago
Page 294
10.
Stories in Stone and Steel
Page 301
1.
Something New Under the Sun
Page 301
2.
Burnham and Root
Page 314
3.
The Major's Birdcage
Page 335
4.
Factories in the Sky
Page 347
11.
Sullivan and Civic Renewal
Page 354
1.
The Auditorium
Page 354
2.
A Proud and Soaring Thing
Page 366
12.
The New Chicago
Page 378
1.
Burnham's White City
Page 378
2.
Hutchinson's Three-Ring Circus
Page 385
3.
Harper's University
Page 393
4.
The Social Defense of Caste
Page 404
5.
The New Chicago Woman
Page 413
6.
Cleansing the City
Page 423
13.
The Battle for Chicago
Page 435
1.
Politics "Ain't Bean Bag"
Page 435
2.
Why the Ward Boss Rules
Page 452
3.
Haymarket
Page 468
4.
It's Harrison Again
Page 482
14.
1893
Page 488
1.
The Fair
Page 488
2.
The "Gomorrah of the West"
Page 505
3.
Stories of the Streets and of the Town
Page 516
15.
After the Fair
Page 533
1.
If Christ Came to Chicago!
Page 533
2.
Regeneration
Page 542
Notes
Page 555
Bibliography
Page 639
Acknowledgments
Page 683
Index
Page 685
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Picture section designed by Barbara Marks.
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