false 1060443 2 These dazzling, poignant pages recreate the magical built environment that thrilled generations of Chicago residents and visitors alike before falling victim to the wrecking ball of "progress." Here are the grand residences and hotels, opulent theaters, legendary trains, and state-of-the-art office buildings and department stores-including the world's first skyscraper. Here too are the famous convention halls, parks, and racetracks of a great American city whose architectural treasures have been, and continue to be, recklessly squandered. Rare photographs and prints, many of them published here for the first time, document the transformative architectural achievements of such giants as Dankmar Adler, Louis Sullivan, John Wellburn Root, Daniel Burnham, William Holabird, and Frank Lloyd Wright. But this remarkable book is much more than a portfolio of now-vanished buildings; within its pages are evocative thumbnail sketches of scores of Chicago personalities, from the world-famous (Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Dreiser, Clarence Darrow, Ben Hecht, Jane Addams, Cyrus McCormick, George Pullman, and Gustavus Swift, to name just a few) to the locally notorious. 1047029 1993 Lost Chicago total:19|5:11|4:6|3:2|2:0|1:0| 19 85 40 3 5 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Apr 10 08:44:37 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 10 08:50:41 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Oct 03 18:34:57 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 03 18:36:27 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Wed Sep 03 14:43:34 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 03 14:44:02 -0700 2008 ]]> 3 0 false false Tue Oct 27 14:18:06 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 14:18:06 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Oct 05 17:39:51 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 17:39:51 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Sep 25 22:18:06 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 22:18:06 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Aug 21 09:27:43 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 09:27:43 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jul 23 16:52:54 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 16:52:54 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Oct 19 07:19:47 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 10:19:38 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 07:19:47 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jul 15 08:45:48 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 08:45:48 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Apr 13 10:44:54 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 10:44:54 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Feb 03 15:51:58 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 15:51:58 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jan 13 16:14:52 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 16:14:52 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Wed Jan 07 21:02:32 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 21:02:32 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jan 05 17:09:35 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 17:09:35 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Tue Oct 14 08:45:46 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 14 08:45:46 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Thu Oct 09 09:08:29 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 09 09:08:29 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Wed Feb 25 23:09:28 -0800 2009 Fri Sep 26 12:38:39 -0700 2008 Wed Feb 25 23:09:28 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Aug 06 19:09:07 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 19:09:07 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sat Aug 02 15:40:54 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 02 15:40:54 -0700 2008