{"product_id":"chicagoland-city-and-suburbs-in-the-railroad-age","title":"Chicagoland: City and Suburbs in the Railroad Age","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eChicagoland: City and Suburbs in the Railroad Age\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eAnn Durkin Keating\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780226428826\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eUniversity of Chicago Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2005\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eNew edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e296\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eFormed 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHistorian and coeditor of the acclaimed \u003ci\u003eEncyclopedia of Chicago, \u003c\/i\u003e 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 shifts the focus to the landscapes and built environments of the metropolitan region. Organized by four categories of settlements-farm centers, industrial towns, commuter suburbs, and recreational and institutional centers-that framed the city, \u003ci\u003eChicagoland\u003c\/i\u003e offers the collective history of 230 neighborhoods and communities, the people who built them, and the structures they left behind that still stand today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKeating reanimates nineteenth-century \u003ci\u003eChicagoland\u003c\/i\u003e with more than a hundred photographs and maps; we find here the taverns, depots, and way stations that were the hubs of the region's vibrant, mobile life. Keating also includes an appendix of driving tours so readers can see this history for themselves. \u003ci\u003eChicagoland\u003c\/i\u003e takes us into the buildings and sites that are still part of our landscape and repopulates them with the stories and characters behind their creation. The result is a wide-angle historical view of Chicago, an entirely new way to understand the region.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Chicagoland: City and Suburbs in the Railroad Age | Ann Durkin Keating | Paperback | 9780226428826 | Used: Like New | American History 1761494 (temp: 7)","offer_id":49261355499672,"sku":"1761494","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/51lTQ38GB4L.jpg?v=1781718077","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/chicagoland-city-and-suburbs-in-the-railroad-age","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}