Chicago and its makers : a narrative of events from the day of the first white man to the inception of the Second World's Fair
(Book)

An odyssey of the wilderness. Firebrand or Calumet ; A dream of empire ; Visitors at the Guardian Angel ; A message from the Great White Father ; "Well educated, but much in the French interest" -- Soldiers in the woods -- Fort Dearborn days and the Kinzies. The tomahawk wins for the time ; A new Fort Dearborn rises from the ashes ; The Winnebago scare -- Chicago becomes a town. Evolution of Cook County ; First town meeting ; Municipal problems ; Ferries and bridges ; Schools ; Sale of school lands ; Rising from the mud ; Fire hazards ; Water supply ; Newspapers ; Pioneer industries ; Insurance ; Panic of 1837 ; Social life ; Churches -- Chicago becomes a city. Courts ; Public health -- City schools -- First cultural institutions. Chicago Lyceum ; Mechanics Institute ; Young Men's Association ; Historical Society -- Theatres -- Daily papers -- Cemeteries -- The canal is begun -- Early banking -- First railroad -- Extending the boundaries. First serious fire -- Earliest meat packers -- Grain shipments begin -- Park system -- Metropolitan consciousness -- River and harbor convention -- The canal is completed -- Early railroads. Galena and Chicago Union ; Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company ; Illinois Central Railroad Company ; The Wabash ; The Michigan Central -- Board of Trade -- Chicago a port of entry -- Coming of the reaping machine -- Flood of 1849 -- Theatrical renaissance. Opera in Chicago ; Musical organizations -- Civic improvements. Changing the grade ; Water supply ; First gas plant ; Street cars --

Two great calamities. Loss of the Lady Elgin ; The cholera -- Hospitals -- Chicago and the slavery question -- Lincoln and the Republican Party -- Chicago in the Civil War. Ellsworth ; Mulligan's Guards -- The post office. The railway mail car -- Hotels. Restaurants and chop houses ; Famous bars and wine houses ; Music halls and beer gardens -- Theatres -- Social problems -- Sports -- The Great Fire. Reconstruction ; Replacing the records ; Joseph Medill, Mayor -- Business revives. Dry goods merchants ; Packers ; Grocery and provision trade ; Piano makers ; Fire of 1874 -- Some unique personalities. Allan Pinkerton ; George M. Pullman ; Dwight L. Moody -- Later cultural institutions. The Art Institute ; Chicago Public Library ; The Newberry Library ; The John Crerar ; The University of Chicago ; The Press Club -- Women's clubs. The Chicago Women's Club ; Woman's City Club ; The Young Woman's Christian Association ; Illinois Woman's Press Association ; Other clubs -- The elegant eighties. Cable cars ; The Haymarket Riot ; Churches ; The parks -- The new Chicago -- The World's Columbian Exposition. The promoters ; The officers ; World's Fair problems ; The inauguration ; The opening ; Results ; Death of Mayor Harrison ; Financial stringency of 1894 -- Railroad strikes of 1894 -- Disasters. Iroquois Fire ; The Crib Fire ; The Eastland -- The drainage canal. Objects ; First commission ; The work ; Enlarging the capacity ; Water supply -- The Chicago Plan. Street and river improvement --

Chicago's war spirit. The American Red Cross ; The war exposition ; Volunteers ; War rations

Reforms. Prohibition

Negro population. New problems ; Increasing population ; Race riots ; New status

"Streeterville"

The romance of street names

Local transportation

The evolution of State Street

Material assets. Iron and steel industries ; Electric power ; Various industries

Some social assets

Epilogue

Poem

The thoroughfares of other days

Men and women who have served their day and generation.