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Index Abbott, Edith, 73 Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, 187 Adams, John Quincy, 138 Addams, Jane, 76 advertising postcards, xiii, 49–52, 97–98, 112–13, 124, 141, 167, 176; for promoting hotels, 49–52, 154; for publisher self-promotion, 17–19 A. E. Staley Manufacturing Co., 135–36 aircraft and air travel, 34, 65, 92, 110–12, 120–21 Allerton, Samuel, 129 alleys, 37 Altgeld, John P., 132 Alton, IL, 116, 137–38 Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, 73 American Bottom, 136 American Broadcasting Co., 71 American League, 93 American Railroad Union, 107 American Revolution, 5 Anderson, Sherwood, 116 apartment and condominium living , 96–100 “Arcadia,” 182 Archer, William, 30 Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), 135 architects: Adlar, Dankmar, 49; Anderson, William Peirce, 47, 68; Beersman, Charles, 47–48; Bennett , Edward H., 14, 52; Burnham, Daniel, 13–14, 34, 41, 47, 52; Cobb, Henry Ives, 82–83, 95; Goldberg, Bertrand, 47; Graham, Ernest, 12, 47, 68; Gropius, Walter, 46; Holabird , William, 39, 45, 48, 53,100; Jenny, William Le Baron, 89; Loos, Adolf, 48; Merrill, John D., 46; Mies Van der Rohe, Ludwig, 46; Murphy, Charles F., 46; Naess, Sigurd, 46; Owings, Nathaniel, 46, 92; Platt, Charles, 134; Probst, Edward Mathias, 47, 68; Richardson Henry Hobson, 93; Roche, Martin, 39, 45, 53, 100; Root, John Wellborn, Jr., 48; Saarinen, Eliel, 48; Skidmore, Louis, 14, 25, 92; Sullivan, Louis H., 4, 25; Van Osdel, John, 48–49; Vaux, Calvert, 89; White, Howard Judson, 68; Wright, Frank Lloyd, 14 architectural styles: Art Deco, 45, 48; Beaux Arts Classicism, 13–14, 67–68, 82–83, 90; Classical Revival, 3, 35, 42–43, 52–55, 169; French Second Empire, 42, 82; Gothic Revival, 42, 48, 85, 100; International Style Modern, 46; Neo-Georgian, 134; Postmodern, 47; Prairie School, 14; Renaissance Revival, 42, 46–47; Romanesque Revival, 49, 93; Streamline Modern , 92 Armour & Co., 65–66 Ashenhurst, John and Ruth, 25, 34–35, 71–72, 106 Atherton, Lewis, 145, 159, 161 Aurora, IL, 107, 91, 110, 130 automobile row (Chicago), 95 automobiles, 33, 40, 92–96, 110–13, 119, 152, 159; ownership of, 19–20, 136, 147, 150, 156, 166, 176, 189; parking lots and garages for, 51, 100, 113, 141; traffic congestion caused by, 25, 31, 57–58, 62–63 balloon-frame construction, 77 banking and finance, x, 6, 8–9, 33–37, 44–48, 129, 163; in small towns, 147, 168, 170 Baltimore, MD, 8 Bartlett, Thomas, 70–71 Batavia, IL, 130 Belleville, IL, 136, 138 Benjamin, Walter, xii Benton, IL, 10 Bernhardt, Sarah, xi Blackhawk War, 117 blight and dereliction, 12, 15, 54, 76–77, 136 Bloomington-Normal, IL, 9–10, 127–30, 159 Borden, Gail, 107 Borden, Mary, 77 Boston, MA, 7–8, 55 Boston Store, 27 204 ] Index “Bozo Circus” (WGN-TV), 91 “Breakfast Club, The,” 70 Bridgeport, IL, 157–58 Browne, Richard, 168 Brownell, Baker, 178 Brown Shoe Co., 156–57 Bryan, William Jennings, 84, 142, 163–64 Buckingham Fountain, 52–53 Buffalo, NY, 6, 55 Bunker Hill, IL, 146–47 Burlington, IA, 140 Burrell, La Tanja Jence, 91 Cahokia, IL, old court house from, 5–6 Cairo, IL, 6, 69, 113, 178–79 Calumet River, 72 Cannon, Joseph, 142 Capone, Alberto, 15, 82 Carbondale, IL, 130 Carnahan, Ann, 132 Carroll County, 148 Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co., 25 Caterpillar Tractor Co., 122 Catherwood, Mary Hartwell, 151 Centralia, IL, 6, 69 Central Illinois, 135, 163, 169, 172–74 central place theory, 9, 16, 150–51 Century of Progress International Exposition of 1933, 91–93 Cermak, Anton, 105 Champaign County, 19, 130 Champaign-Urbana, IL, 10, 19, 130–34, 159 Charleston, IL, 130 Chatfield-Taylor, Hobart C., 38 Chautauqua Lake Assembly, celebrations in Illinois, 160, 162 Chicago, IL: as America’s boom metropolis, x, 1–2, 4, 6, 24–25, 113; conceptualized through postcard art, ix–x, 1, 183–89; as convention city, x, 52; demographic makeup of, 14; origin of name, 24; population of, x, 4, 9, 16, 24, 53; as “Prairie City,” 184 Chicago Bears, 53, 134 Chicago Board of Trade, 7–8, 33–36, 44–46, 60 Chicago City Hall and Cook County Court House, 82–83 Chicago Coliseum, 84 Chicago Cubs (formerly the White Stockings), 93–94 Chicago fire of 1871, x, 11, 25, 47, 56, 73, 82, 118 Chicago Furniture Mart, 59 Chicago hotels, 45, 48–52; Allerton Hotel, 42; Auditorium Hotel, 42, 49–50; Blackstone Hotel, 43, 49; Congress Hotel, 42–43, 49; Edgewater Beach Hotel, 99–100; Hotel Continental, 18–19; Hotel La Salle, 51; Hotel Sherman...

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