Grant Park [electronic resource] : the evolution of Chicago's front yard / Dennis H. Cremin.
Material type: TextPublication details: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2013] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xv, 234 pages :) illustrations, mapsISBN:- 9780809332526
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs
- Chicago (Ill.) -- History
- Grant Park (Chicago, Ill.) -- History
- Urban parks -- United States -- Case studies
- Landscape architecture -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History
- Community development -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History
- City planning -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History
- Social change -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History
- 977.3/11 23
- F548.65.G73 C74 2013
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-222) and index.
Early Park History : Lake, Land, and Place -- Lake Park : A Cultural and Civic Center -- The World's Columbian Exposition and Chicago's Cultural Flowering -- Making the White City Permanent -- The New Design -- Gateway and Cultural Center : From A Century of Progress to Postwar Park -- Parking Lots, Protests, and Mayhem : Grant Park in the Daley Era -- The Park Reenvisioned and Renewed.
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