The Loop: The "L" Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago

ISBN-13: 9780809338108 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 312 str.

Patrick T. Reardon

Spis treści

• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. The Loop, New Year’s Eve, 1911
• Part One — Lots of loops
• 2. Academic fashion
• 3. Silence
• 4. Lots of Loops
• 5. The Word “loop”
• 6. The Last Cable Car
• Part Two — The Union Loop
• 7. Dreaming of a “Union Loop”
• 8. Willing the Union Loop into Existence
• 9. The Birth of the Union Loop
• Part Three — The Loop
• 10. The Rectangular Bridge and the Bridge Builder
• 11. Inside and outside the Loop
• 12. The Name “Loop”
• Part Four — The Heart of Chicago
• 13. “My ‘Other Neighborhood’”
• 14. Wandering Downtowns
• 15. Raze the Loop
• 16. The Loop, New Year’s Day, 2019
• Acknowledgments and Permissions
  
• Bibliography
• Notes
• Index