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The Loop - The "L" Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago (Paperback)
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The Loop - The "L" Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago (Paperback)
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The structure that anchors Chicago. Every day Chicagoans rely on
the loop of elevated train tracks to get to their jobs, classrooms,
or homes in the city's downtown. But how much do they know about
the single most important structure in the history of the Windy
City? In engagingly brisk prose, Patrick T. Reardon unfolds the
fascinating story about how Chicago's elevated Loop was built, gave
its name to the downtown, helped unify the city, saved the city's
economy, and was itself saved from destruction in the 1970s. This
unique volume combines urban history, biography, engineering,
architecture, transportation, culture, and politics to explore the
elevated Loop's impact on the city's development and economy and on
the way Chicagoans see themselves. The Loop rooted Chicago's
downtown in a way unknown in other cities, and it protected that
area-and the city itself-from the full effects of suburbanization
during the second half of the twentieth century. Masses of data
underlie new insights into what has made Chicago's downtown, and
the city as a whole, tick. The Loop features a cast of colorful
Chicagoans, such as legendary lawyer Clarence Darrow, poet Edgar
Lee Masters, mayor Richard J. Daley, and the notorious Gray Wolves
of the Chicago City Council. Charles T. Yerkes, an often-demonized
figure, is shown as a visionary urban planner, and engineer John
Alexander Low Waddell, a world-renowned bridge creator, is
introduced to Chicagoans as the designer of their urban railway.
This fascinating exploration of how one human-built structure
reshaped the social and economic landscape of Chicago is the
definitive book on Chicago's elevated Loop.
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