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    Carl Smith
    The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City
    "A triumph of meticulous research, clear organization, and accessible writing. In Smith’s hands the story of the Plan, the campaign to promote it, and its influence on generations of Chicagoans come alive."—Robert Bruegmann, University of Illinois at Chicago, author of Sprawl: A Compact History

       

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    Mark Jacob and Richard Cahan in association with the Chicago History Museum
    Chicago under Glass: Early Photographs from the Chicago Daily News
    "I’ve already spent hours studying this book. It’s a fascinating peek into the constantly changing life of Chicago and the nation from 1901 to 1930, as well as a tribute to the best of photojournalism.… [Chicago under Glass includes] powerful photos of turn-of-the century union strikes, famous baseball players and historic fights, sweatshop workers on Maxwell Street, gang boss Al Capone, child killers Leopold and Loeb, as well as their legendary lawyer, Clarence Darrow. And that’s just a start."—Tom McNamee, Chicago Sun-Times

       

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    Edited by Joel Greenberg
    Of Prairie, Woods, and Water: Two Centuries of Chicago Nature Writing
    "I had trouble putting it down. The letters, articles, journal entries and other writings presented a wonderful window on our past.… It was like seeing Illinois for the first time—a strange and wild foreign land that is difficult to reconcile with what we see here today."—David L. Thomas, Chief of the Illinois Natural History Survey

       

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    Cathy Jean Maloney
    Chicago Gardens: The Early History
    "Chicago Gardens captures many of the fascinating stories and names associated with Chicago’s first hundred years of horticulture. From the boasting by its founders in 1833 that Chicago would be an urbs in horto (or "city in a garden") to the aftermath of the Century of Progress Exposition in 1933-34, Chicago Gardens traces Chicago’s coming of age as a center of horticulture, gardening and conservation."—Robert E. Grese, director, Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum
    See five legacy gardens.

       

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    Edited by Ann Durkin Keating
    Chicago Neighborhoods and Suburbs: A Historical Guide
    From the South Side to the West Side to the North Side, just about every local knows how distinctive Chicago’s neighborhoods are. Few of us, however, know exactly how they came to be. Chicago Neighborhoods and Suburbs brings the city—its inimitable neighborhoods, industries, and individuals—to life, making it the perfect guidebook for anyone with an interest in Chicago and its history.

       

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    Neil Harris
    The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age
    "How attractive to have this lively and short-lived magazine made accessible and brilliantly contextualized by Neil Harris. Harris is the ideal scholar to explain how the Chicagoan helped to define the city during this era, setting Prohibition and gangland notoriety in counterpoint to stylish innovations in music, art, and architecture. This handsome volume is invaluable to those intrigued by the growth of urban identity and self-awareness during the second quarter of the twentieth century."—Michael Kammen, Cornell University
    See sample pages (7mb, PDF format).

       

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    Sally A. Kitt Chappell
    Chicago's Urban Nature: A Guide to the City's Architecture + Landscape
    "Chicago is the city meant to be looked at. Justifying that with inspiring clarity, this book surveys the urban vistas as the aesthetic unity of architecture and landscape—and raises the guidebook to new heights of the genre."—William Conger, artist and professor emeritus, Northwestern University
    See a video about the book.

       

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    Timothy J. Gilfoyle
    Millennium Park: Creating a Chicago Landmark
    "This beautiful book is the story of a monument in the making and a testament to a park for all the people of Chicago."—Mayor Richard M. Daley
    Take the millennial trivia quiz.

       

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    Ann Durkin Keating
    Chicagoland: City and Suburbs in the Railroad Age
    "Chicagoland is that rare thing—a fresh and entirely original work of history. Written with style and energy, it is a wonderfully revealing account of the economic, ecological, and physical reshaping of the Chicago region by the century's single most formative technology, the steam railroad. Beautifully illustrated and handsomely produced, it is sure to engage a wide readership."—Donald L. Miller, author of City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America
    See tours of Chicagoland.

       

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    The books in this subject catalog are not all the books published by the University of Chicago Press in this field, but only our most recent and important books. We recommend you start with this catalog. For a more extensive listing you may go to the subject index of our complete catalog, or you may search our title database using a subject term. To see just our very latest books (titles released in the last six months) go to our new releases pages.

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