Chicago's Lake Shore Drive : urban America's most beautiful roadway /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Samors, Neal S.
Edition:	1st. ed.
Imprint:	[Chicago, Ill.?] : Chicago's Neighborhoods, Inc., 2010.
Description:	208 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 x 29 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Streets -- Illinois -- Chicago. Streets -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Pictorial works. Streets. Lake Shore Drive (Chicago, Ill.) -- History. Lake Shore Drive (Chicago, Ill.) -- History -- Pictorial works. Chicago (Ill.) -- History. Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- Pictorial works. Illinois -- Chicago. Illinois -- Chicago -- Lake Shore Drive. History. Pictorial works.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8269591

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Other authors / contributors:	Judge, Bernard.
ISBN:	9780978866372 0978866371
Notes:	Includes indices.
Summary:	Provides a pictorial history of Lake Shore Drive. Follows its creation, development and ongoing reshaping.

Table of Contents:

Foreword / Gary Johnson
Introduction / Henry Binford
Reflections on Lake Shore Drive / Neal Samors
Chicago's lakefront: the early years, 1833-1909, including Potter Palmer's role in beginning Lake Shore Drive, the Great Chicago Fire, and the World's Columbian Exposition
Implementation of the Burnham Plan, 1909-1933
Century of progress and expansion of outer and inner drives, 1933-1946
Lake Shore Drive developed from north to south, 1946-1987
Completing Lake Shore Drive, 1987-2005
Planning for the future of the Drive and the "final four miles," 2005-2010.

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