Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction | William C. Barnett
Part I. Where Prairie Meets Lake
1. Native Peoples in the Tallgrass Prairies of Illinois | Robert Morrissey
2. Cholera and the Evolution of Early Chicago | Ann Durkin Keating and Kathleen A. Brosnan
3. Animals at Work in Industrializing Chicago | Katherine Macia
Part II. A Freshwater City
4. An Inland Sea? Coming to Terms with Lake Michigan in Nineteenth-Century Chicago | Theodore J. Karamanski
5. Cleansing Chicago: Environmental Control and the Reversal of the Chicago River | Matthew Corpolongo
6. Too Much Water: Coping with Climate Change and Suburban Sprawl in a Flood-Prone Environment | Harold L. Platt
7. Water, Oil, and Fish: The Chicago River as a Technological Matrix of Place | Daniel Macfarlane and Lynne Heasley
Part III. The Nature of Working-class Chicagoans
8. May Day: The Green Vision of Chicago’s Gilded Age Anarchists | Colin Fisher
9. Black Migrant Foodways in the “Hog Butcher for the World” | Brian McCammack
10. “No Cheerful Patches of Green”: Mexican Community and the Industrial Environment on the Far Southeast Side of Chicago | Michael Innis-Jimenez
11. Work Relief Labor in the Cook County Forest Preserves, 1931–1942 | Natalie Bump Vena
A Cartographic Interlude
12. Maps and Chicago’s Environmental History | Peter Nekola and James R. Akerman
Part IV. Managing (Or Not) Urban-industrial Complexity
13. Blood on the Tracks: Accidental Death and the Built Environment | Joshua A. T. Salzmann
14. Air and Water Pollution in the Urban-Industrial Nexus: Chicago, 1840s–1970s | Steven H. Corey
15. Chicago’s Wastelands: Refuse Disposal and Urban Growth, 1840–1990 | Craig E. Colten
16. Mrs. Block Beautiful: African American Women and the Birth of the Urban Conservation Movement in Chicago, 1917–1954 | Sylvia Hood Washington
Part V. Reenvisioning the Lake and Prairie
17. May Theilgaard Watts and the Origins of the Illinois Prairie Path | William C. Barnett
18. “Hard-Nosed Professionals”: Gordon Sherman, Businessmen for the Public Interest, and Environmentalism in 1970s Chicago | Robert Gioielli
19. The Calumet Region: A Line in the Sand | Mark Bouman
Notes
Contributors
Index