Table of Contents

	Preface	p. 15
	Discovery	p. 27
	The Priest and the Explorer	p. 27
	Joliet's Dream	p. 41
	"Didn't Expect No Town"	p. 48
	Wild Chicago	p. 48
	Banishing the Past	p. 58
	Odgen's Chicago	p. 66
	The Founder	p. 66
	A Prairie Aristocracy	p. 76
	The Grid and the Balloon Frame	p. 81
	The Great Chicago Exchange Engine	p. 89
	The Big Junction	p. 89
	The Mechanical Man	p. 103
	Stacker of Wheat and Wood, Packer of Pork	p. 106
	Empire City of the West	p. 122
	Chicago Against Nature	p. 122
	City of Extremes	p. 131
	My Lost City	p. 143
	The Great Fire	p. 143
	Unapproachable in Calamity	p. 158
	That Astonishing Chicago	p. 179
	"Grander and Statelier Than Ever"	p. 179
	America's City	p. 188
	The Chicago Machine	p. 198
	Empires of Order and Blood	p. 198
	A Fortress of Oppression	p. 216
	The Pullman Idea	p. 224
	Steel Rails to Country Kitchens	p. 240
	The Streetcar City	p. 254
	Palaces of Desire	p. 254
	The Loop	p. 265
	City and Suburb	p. 273
	Sunday in Chicago	p. 294
	Stories in Stone and Steel	p. 301
	Something New Under the Sun	p. 301
	Burnham and Root	p. 314
	The Major's Birdcage	p. 335
	Factories in the Sky	p. 347
	Sullivan and Civic Renewal	p. 354
	The Auditorium	p. 354
	A Proud and Soaring Thing	p. 366
	The New Chicago	p. 378
	Burnham's White City	p. 378
	Hutchinson's Three-Ring Circus	p. 385
	Harper's University	p. 393
	The Social Defense of Caste	p. 404
	The New Chicago Woman	p. 413
	Cleansing the City	p. 423
	The Battle for Chicago	p. 435
	Politics "Ain't Bean Bag"	p. 435
	Why the Ward Boss Rules	p. 452
	Haymarket	p. 468
	It's Harrison Again	p. 482
	1893	p. 488
	The Fair	p. 488
	The "Gomorrah of the West"	p. 505
	Stories of the Streets and of the Town	p. 516
	After the Fair	p. 533
	If Christ Came to Chicago!	p. 533
	Regeneration	p. 542
	Notes	p. 555
	Bibliography	p. 639
	Acknowledgements	p. 683
	Index	p. 685

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