Heralded as America\'s most quintessentially Modern city, Chicago has attracted the gaze of journalists, novelists, essayists, and scholars as much as any City in the nation.
Chicago on the Make traces the evolution of the city\'s politics, culture, and economy as it grew from an unruly tangle of rail yards, slaughterhouses, factories, tenement houses, and fiercely defended et.
And, yet, few historians have attempted big-picture narratives of the city\'s transformation over the twentieth century.
Heralded as America\'s most quintessentially Modern city, Chicago has attracted the gaze of journalists, novelists, essayists, and scholars as much as any City in the nation