Main entry:

Miller, Donald L., 1944- author.

Title & Author:

City of the century : the epic of Chicago and the making of America / Donald Miller.

Publication:

New York : Simon & Schuster, [1996]

Description:

704 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 639-682) and index.
Preface -- I. Introduction: City of dreamers and doers -- 1. Discovery. The priest and the explorer ; Joliet's dream -- 2. "Didn't expect no town". Wild Chicago ; Banishing the past -- 3. Odgen's Chicago. The founder ; A prairie aristocracy ; The grid and the balloon frame -- 4. The great Chicago exchange engine. The big junction ; The mechanical man ; Stacker of wheat and wood, packer of pork -- 5. Empire City of the West. Chicago Against Nature ; City of Extremes -- 6. My Lost City. The great fire ; Unapproachable in calamity --
II. Introduction: Let us build ourselves a city -- 7. That astonishing Chicago. "Grander and statelier than ever" ; America's city -- 8. The Chicago machine. Empires of order and blood ; A fortress of oppression ; The Pullman idea ; Steel rails to country kitchens -- 9. The streetcar city. Palaces of desire ; The Loop ; City and suburb ; Sunday in Chicago -- 10. Stories in stone and steel. Something new under the sun ; Burnham and Root ; The major's birdcage ; Factories in the sky -- 11. Sullivan and civic renewal. The Auditorium ; A proud and soaring thing -- 12. The New Chicago. Burnham's white city ; Hutchinson's three-ring circus ; Harper's university ; The social defense of caste ; The new Chicago woman ; Cleansing the city -- 13. The Battle for Chicago. Politics "ain't bean bag" ; Why the ward boss rules ; Haymarket ; It's Harrison again -- 14. 1893. The Fair ; The "Gomorrah of the west" ; Stories of the streets and of the town -- 15. After the Fair. If Christ came to Chicago! ; Regeneration.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

This volume is about Chicago's 19th century history.

ISBN:

0684801949
9780684801940

Subject:

Chicago (Ill.) History.
15.85 history of America.
Geschichte 1800-1893.
Chicago (Ill.) Histoire.
Illinois Chicago.
United States, Illinois, Cook, Chicago History 19th century.
Chicago, Ill.
Chicago.
Chicago (Etats-Unis)

Form/genre:

History.
History (form)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 107919
Call No.: ID F548.3.M5; ID:96-B1174
Status: Available