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David Buisseret

Historic Illinois from the Air

With Illustrations and Cartography by Tom Willcockson
248 pages, 210 illustrations, 22 line drawings, 75 maps  8-1/2 x 11  © 1990

Cloth $59.00

ISBN: 9780226079899   Published August 1990

List of Illustrations
Introduction
 
1. The Land
2. The Amerindians
3. The French
4. Anglophones in the South
5. The Development of the Northwest
6. The Emergence of Chicago
7. Chicago and the Expansion of the Northeast
8. Railroads in Illinois
9. Chicago Becomes the Second City
10. The Mature City and Its Institutions
11. The State Comes of Age
 
Conclusion
Appendix: Sources and Methods
Bibliography
Index
Awards
  • Geographic Society of Chicago Publication Award
  • Illinois State Historical Society Award
  • American Association for State and Local History
  • John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize (Geographers)
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