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Cremin, Dennis H.

Grant Park the evolution of Chicago's front yard / [electronic resource] : Dennis H. Cremin. - Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2013. - xv, 234 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references 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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

ISBN: 9780809332526 (electronic bk.)

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Social change--History.--Illinois--Chicago
City planning--History.--Illinois--Chicago
Community development--History.--Illinois--Chicago
Landscape architecture--History.--Illinois--Chicago
Urban parks--United States--Case studies.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Grant Park (Chicago, Ill.)--History.
Chicago (Ill.)--History.
Chicago (Ill.)--Social life and customs.
Chicago (Ill.)--Buildings, structures, etc.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: F548.65.G73 / C74 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 977.3/11