
Chicago
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At its heart, Chicago is America's great hub. It began as a trading post, which grew into a market for the east to purchase the goods of the west, sprouting the still-largest rail interchange in America. As people began to trade virtual representations of those goods - futures - the city became a centre of ?nance and law. And as people studied the city's growth and its economy, it became a nucleus of intellect, with the University of Chicago's pioneering sociologists shaping how cities at home and abroad would come to understand themselves.
Whet Moser's book reveals how the city grew into a metropolis over its social, urban, cultural and sometimes scandalous history. He also traces the development of and current changes in its neighbourhoods: Chicago is famous for them, and infamous for the segregation between them. Moser takes readers from the very beginnings of the city as an idea, a vision in the minds of its ?rst explorers, to the global city it has become - and offers a local's perspective on the best and most interesting aspects of Chicago to visitors today.
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Imprint Page
- Contents
- Prologue
- HISTORY
- 1: Manifest Destiny
- 2: Building the Hub
- 3: The Second-Greatest Arrogance
- 4: Cheer Up
- 5: Appalled at the Results of Progress
- 6: Prohibition, Segregation, and the Blues
- 7: Modernist Times
- 8: The Boss and Rev King
- 9: Harold of a New Day
- 10: Daley II and the Two Chicagos
- THE CITY TODAY
- Architecture: "The Aesthetically Perfect City"
- Baseball: North Side and South Side Stories
- Booze: Builder of Bars
- Crime: Trials of a Century
- El: Spine of the City
- Food: Pop Art
- Water: Chicago's Front Yard (and its Septic Tank)
- Museums: White City to the First Black President
- Parks: Reflections of a Global City
- Ports of Call: Entering the Great American City
- LISTINGS
- Chronology
- References
- Suggested Reading and Viewing
- Photo Acknowledgments
- Index
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