Chicago Neighborhoods and Suburbs
A Historical Guide
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Contributors
Introduction Chicago Neighborhoods: Building Blocks of the Region, Ann Durkin Keating
Note on Further Readings
Maps
Chicago’s Community Areas
Economic Origins of Metropolitan Chicago’s Communities
Chicago’s Evolving Economic Geography
Land Subdivision and Urbanization on Chicago’s Northwest Side
Chicago-Area Expressways in 23
Neighborhood Change: Prairie Avenue, 1853–23
Changing Origins of Metropolitan Chicago’s Foreign-Born Population
Annexations and Additions to the City of Chicago
Chicago’s Railroad Patterns in 1950
The Lay of the Land
Suburbs and Cities as Dual Metropolis, Michael H. Ebner
Multicentered Chicago, Henry C. Binford
Contested Spaces, Janice L. Reiff
Economic Geography, Susan E. Hirsch
Built Environment of the Chicago Region, Robert Bruegmann
A–Z entries
Illustration Credits
Index
“What’s McHenry’s salty past? The village was home to a pickle factory in 1876. What was an Oak Brook gristmill’s secret identity before the Civil War? It was a stop on the Underground Railroad. All these factoids and more can be found by dipping into Chicago Neighborhoods and Suburbs, a new historical guide edited by North Central College’s Ann Durkin Keating.”
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