Chicagoland City and Suburbs in the Railroad Age

Name: Chicagoland City and Suburbs in the Railroad Age
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ISBN: 9780226428796

ISBN-10: 0226428796

ISBN-13: 9780226428796

Edition: 2005

Authors: Ann Durkin Keating

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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…

Book details

List price: $94.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/15/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 296
Size: 8.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Ann Durkin Keating is professor of history at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. She is coeditor of The Encyclopedia of Chicago and the author of several books, including Chicagoland: City and Suburbs in the Railroad Age and Chicago Neighborhoods and Suburbs: A Historical Guide, both published by the University of Chicago Press.



Contents


Acknowledgments



Regionalism in the Railroad Era



Chicagoland before the Railroad



Farm Centers of the Railroad Age



Industrial Towns of the Railroad Age



Commuter Suburbs of the Railroad Age



Recreational and Institutional Centers of the Railroad Age



Regionalism through Neighbors and over Time



The Legacy of the Railroad Era in Chicagoland


Appendix: Regional Tours and Selected Sites


Notes


Figure Credits


Index