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PUBLISHED
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2009]
©2009
©2009
DESCRIPTION
462 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780226644318 (cloth : alk. paper), 0226644316 (cloth : alk. paper)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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