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Chicagoland By Ann Durkin Keating City & Suburbs in the railroad age Soft Cover
Chicagoland By Ann Durkin Keating City & Suburbs in the railroad age
Hard Cover
Copyright 2005
262 pages Indexed
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
1 Regionalism in the Railroad Era 3
2 Chicagoland before the Railroad 23
3 Farm Centers of the Railroad Age 45
4 Industrial Towns of the Railroad Age 65
5 Commuter Suburbs of the Railroad Age 93
6 Recreational and Institutional Centers of the Railroad Age 115
7 Regionalism through Neighbors and over Time 141
8 The Legacy of the Railroad Era in Chicagoland 167
Appendix: Regional Tours and Selected Sites 181
Notes 215
Figure Credits 243
Index 251
Thousands of people and tons of goods traveled through the Dearborn Street Station in Chicago's South Loop in 190o. This red-brick structure was one of six major rail terminals in downtown Chicago, which together linked Chicagoans in a railroad region. A century later, only the Dearborn Street Station remained (fig. Li). Once the headquarters of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, this 1885 structure now stands between two new residential neighborhoods: Printer's Row to the north and Dearborn Park to the south. Its nine-story clock tower stands as a visible reminder of an era when railroad clock towers regulated the ebb and flow of regional circulation of people and products.'
The confluence of railroads and rail stations promoted intensive urban development. Skyscrapers soon dwarfed the railroad clock towers and came to embody Chicago's meteoric rise: structures like the Monadnock Building, once the world's tallest office building at sixteen stories (fig. I.2).2 Over time the Monadnock emerged as one of a group of buildings, including the Rookery, Auditorium, Reliance, and Carson Pixie Scott, that have made Chicago's downtown architecture world-famous. These buildings together formed a commercial core for the region. The Loop, nicknamed for the elevated rapid transit line that encircled it after 1897, had taller and larger buildings than in any other part of Chicagoland.
Downtown held the most valuable property in the metropolitan area well into the twentieth century as more and more rail lines centered there. Decisions made in the offices of new skyscrapers increasingly directed the economy of the region. Shoppers flocked to the growing number of department and specialty stores, while cultural and political institutions established roots in the city center.4 Downtown Chicago served as the hub of an expanding metropolitan region which included Chicago and the rest of Cook County, as well as the ring of counties beyond Cook along the railroad lines.
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