Chicagoland: City and Suburbs in the Railroad Age / Edition 1

Chicagoland: City and Suburbs in the Railroad Age / Edition 1

by Ann Durkin Keating
ISBN-10:
0226428826
ISBN-13:
9780226428826
Pub. Date:
11/15/2005
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10:
0226428826
ISBN-13:
9780226428826
Pub. Date:
11/15/2005
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Chicagoland: City and Suburbs in the Railroad Age / Edition 1

Chicagoland: City and Suburbs in the Railroad Age / Edition 1

by Ann Durkin Keating
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Overview

Formed by images of crowded city streets and towering skyscrapers, our understanding of nineteenth-century Chicago completely neglects the fact that the city itself was only the center of a web of neighborhoods, farm communities, and industrial towns—many connected to the city by the railroad. Farmers used trains to transport produce into the city daily; businessmen rode the rails home to their commuter suburbs; and families took vacations mere miles outside the Loop.

Historian and coeditor of the acclaimed Encyclopedia of Chicago, Ann Durkin Keating resurrects for us here the bustling network that defined greater Chicagoland. Taking a new approach to the history of the city, Keating shifts the focus to the landscapes and built environments of the metropolitan region. Organized by four categories of settlements-farm centers, industrial towns, commuter suburbs, and recreational and institutional centers-that framed the city, Chicagoland offers the collective history of 230 neighborhoods and communities, the people who built them, and the structures they left behind that still stand today.

Keating reanimates nineteenth-century Chicagoland with more than a hundred photographs and maps; we find here the taverns, depots, and way stations that were the hubs of the region's vibrant, mobile life. Keating also includes an appendix of driving tours so readers can see this history for themselves. Chicagoland takes us into the buildings and sites that are still part of our landscape and repopulates them with the stories and characters behind their creation. The result is a wide-angle historical view of Chicago, an entirely new way to understand the region.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780226428826
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/15/2005
Series: Historical Studies of Urban America
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 296
Product dimensions: 8.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Ann Durkin Keating is professor of history at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. She is coeditor of The Encyclopedia of Chicago and author of Building Chicago: Suburban Developers and the Creation of a Divided Metropolis and Invisible Networks: Exploring the History of Local Utilities and Public Works.

Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Regionalism in the Railroad Era
2. Chicagoland before the Railroad
3. Farm Centers of the Railroad Age
4. Industrial Towns of the Railroad Age
5. Commuter Suburbs of the Railroad Age
6. Recreational and Institutional Centers of the Railroad Age
7. Regionalism through Neighbors and over Time
8. The Legacy of the Railroad Era in Chicagoland
Appendix: Regional Tours and Selected Sites
Notes
Figure Credits
Index
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