Books on Chicago history
Adams, Stephen B., and Orville R. Butler. MANUFACTURING
THE FUTURE: A History of Western Electric. (Cambridge 1999). [with
40,000 workers in the 1920s, it was for many years Chicago's largest employer]
Arnold, Lewis. AN EARLY ENCOUNTER WITH TOMORROW: Europeans,
Chicago's Loop and the World's Columbian Exposition. (Illinois 1997).
Barrett, James R. WORK AND COMMUNITY IN THE JUNGLE:
Chicago's Packinghouse Workers, 1894-1922. (Illinois 1987).
Barrett, Paul. THE AUTOMOBILE AND URBAN TRANSIT: The
Formation of Public Policy in Chicago 1900-1930. (Temple 1983)
Bluestone, Daniel. CONSTRUCTING CHICAGO. (Yale 1991).
Chicago
Historical Society biblio. on meatpacking <www.chicagohs.org/history/stockyard/stkbibli.html>
Cohan, Adam, and Elizabeth Taylor, AMERICAN PHARAOH:
Mayor Richard J. Daley: His Battle for Chicago and the Nation (Warner 2000)
first
chapter (NYT), first
chapter TWBookmark
Condit, Carl W. CHICAGO, 1910-29: Building Planning,
and Urban Technology. (Chicago 1973). See also second volume
covering 1930-70 [UCP 1974], with 115 illustrations.
Cronon, William. NATURE'S METROPOLIS: Chicago and
the Great West (Norton 1991).
Halpern, Rick. DOWN ON THE KILLING FLOOR: Black and
White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses, 1904-54. (Illinois 1997).
Horowitz, Roger. "NEGRO AND WHITE, UNITE AND FIGHT!":
A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, 1930-90. (Illinois
1997).
Keating, Ann Durkin. BUILDING CHICAGO: Suburban Developers
and the Creation of a Divided Metropolis. (Ohio State 1988).
Miller, Donald L. CITY OF THE CENTURY: The Epic of
Chicago and the Making of America. (Simon & Schuster 1996).
Platt, Harold L. THE ELECTRIC CITY: Energy and the
Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880-1930. (University of Chicago 1991).
Randall, Frank A. HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF BUILDING
CONSTRUCTION IN CHICAGO. (Illinois 1999; 2nd ed.).
Rast, Joel. REMAKING CHICAGO: The political origins
of urban industrial change. (Northern Illinois 1999).
Sinclair, Upton. THE
JUNGLE (1906) [e-text UC-Berkeley]
Smith, Carl. URBAN DISORDER AND THE SHAPE OF BELIEF:
The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman.
(Chicago 1995).
Willis, Carol. FORM FOLLOWS FINANCE: Skyscrapers and
Skylines in New York and Chicago (Princeton AP 1995) / Misa
review in BHR
Zukowsky, John (ed.). CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE, 1872-1922:
Birth of a Metropolis. (AIC 1987).
Zukowsky, John (ed.). CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN,
1923-1993: Reconfiguration of an American Metropolis. (AIC 1993).
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