City of Big Shoulders : : A History of Chicago / / Robert G. Spinney.
City of Big Shoulders links key events in Chicago's development, from its marshy origins in the 1600s to today's robust metropolis. Robert G. Spinney presents Chicago in terms of the people whose lives made the city—from the tycoons and the politicians to the hundreds of thousands of immig...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Edition: | second edition |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (324 p.) :; 14 b&w halftones, 1 map |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Preface
- 1. The Early World of Chigagou, 1600–1750
- 2. Chigagou Becomes Chicago, 1750–1835
- 3. Boom, Bust, and Recovery in Early Chicago, 1835–1850
- 4. Chicago Conquers the Midwest, 1850–1890
- 5. Life in a City on the Make, 1850–1900
- 6. The Fire, the Bomb, and the Fair, 1871–1893
- 7. The New Immigration, 1880–1920
- 8. Progressivism and Urban Reform, 1890–1915
- 9. World War I and the Roaring Twenties, 1915–1929
- 10. The Great Depression, World War II, and Suburban Growth, 1929–1955
- 11. Richard J. Daley and the City That Works, 1955–1976
- 12. The Challenges of the Post-Machine Years, 1976–1997
- 13. Glamorous and Grim: Chicago in the Twenty-First Century
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index