Main entry:

Pacyga, Dominic A.

Title & Author:

Chicago : a biography / Dominic A. Pacyga.

Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Description:

462 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-433) and index.
1. Location, location, location. The French ; Point de Sable and the coming of the Americans ; The Yankees, the canal, and the railroads ; Ethnic diversity ; Lake Street that great street -- 2. Emporium of the West. Early industry ; Growth problems ; The threat of war ; The Civil War ; The wartime economy ; The industrial new age ; The new relationship between workers and owners -- 3. The era of urban chaos. A wooden immigrant city on the prairie ; The great Chicago fire ; The clash between labor and capital ; The capital of radicalism ; Haymarket ; The Loop : a dark vision of the future ; The levee -- 4. Reacting to chaos : Pullman, the west side, and the Loop. The west side : the communal response ; The elite response: George Pullman ; The middle-class reform response : Jane Addams ; The Loop : an architectural response ; The Columbian exposition ; Paradise lost : the Pullman strike -- 5. The progressive and not so progressive city. The continued clash of social classes ; Chicago's progressive politics ; The progressive accomplishment ; Green spaces for the poor and great plans ; The problem of housing the poor ; Big Bill Thompson and the end of progressivism -- 6. The immigrant capital and World War I. Immigrant city ; World War I ; Poison, hysteria, politics, and ethnic conflict ; World War I and the labor movement ; The great migration ; 1919 : annus mirabilis -- 7. Twentieth-century metropolis. The attack on immigrants ; The bungalow and the new ethnic metropolis ; Black metropolis ; Popular culture ; The automobile ; Gangland -- 8. Years of crises : depression and war. Unemployment ; Anton Cermak and the birth of the democratic machine ; Kelly-Nash : a new democratic day ; The urge to organize : neighborhoods ; The urge to organize: labor ; World War II : emporium of the United Nations -- 9. Chicago after the war : changing times. The postwar Democrats ; The problem of race ; Englewood : Angeline Jackson's neighborhood ; Ted Swigon's back of the yards : a shifting landscape ; Reaction to change ; Arguing over urban renewal ; Violence : the murder of Alvin Palmer ; Postwar suburbs ; Deindustrialization : the stockyards -- 10. Daley's city. Building the modern city : public housing and expressways ; Daley's prime ; Black Chicago ; 1968 : the whole world is watching -- 11. Apocalypse "now" or regeneration? The tragedy of Michael Bilandic ; Deindustrialization : phase two ; Seeds of a new Loop ; Jane Byrne and the politics of angst ; 1983 : It's Harold! ; The second Daley ; Shifts in the economy and immigration ; Still the city of immigrants ; A city transformed? race and class in the global city ; Transforming Chicago and America.

Summary:

"Chicago traces the city's storied past, from the explorations of Joliet and Marquette in 1673 to the new wave of urban pioneers today. The city's great industrialists, reformers, and politicians - and, indeed, the many not-so-great and downright notorious - animate this book, from Al Capone and Jane Addams to Mayor Richard J. Daley." -- Inside jacket.

ISBN:

9780226644318 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226644316 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226644286
9780226644288

Subject:

Chicago (Ill.) History.
Chicago (Ill.) Histoire.
Illinois Chicago
Chicago, Ill.
Chicago historia.
Geschichte

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 265342
Call No.: BIB 196801
Status: Available