Lakefront : : Public Trust and Private Rights in Chicago /

Lakefront : : Public Trust and Private Rights in Chicago / / Joseph D. Kearney, Thomas W. Merrill.

How did Chicago, a city known for commerce, come to have such a splendid public waterfront—its most treasured asset? Lakefront reveals a story of social, political, and legal conflict in which private and public rights have clashed repeatedly over time, only to produce, as a kind of miracle, a gener...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Kearney, Joseph D.,
Merrill, Thomas W.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.) :; 74 b&w halftones, 16 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Lake Front Steal
  • 2. The Lake Front Case
  • 3. The Watchdog of the Lakefront
  • 4. The Struggle for Streeterville
  • 5. Reversing the Chicago River
  • 6. North Lake Shore Drive
  • 7. South Lake Shore Drive and Bridging the River
  • 8. The Transformation of the Public Trust Doctrine
  • 9. The Lakefront Today
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index of Published Decisions
  • Index of Subjects

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