At Home in the Loop: How Clout and Community Built Chicago's Dearborn Park
Language: English
Published by Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, IL, 1997
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First Edition - "1" in number line on copy right page. Green cloth covered boards are clean & unmarred. Embossed design and lettering on spine is in gold and is shiny & bright. As New - No writing, tears or folds on pages. Binding tight. DJ is NOT price clipped. DJ has light shelf wear.This is NOT an Ex-lib; Has a remainder mark on bottom edge. Note: We use "Fine" book condition judiciously; only when the book exhibits no flaws. A Fine book closely approaches ‘As New’ condition and may not have been previously owned. Any flaws (writing, tears, creases) are exceptions to a Fine condition and should be clearly described for a book and dust jacket.
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- Title
- At Home in the Loop: How Clout and Community Built Chicago's Dearborn Park
- Author
- Wille, Lois
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, IL
- Publication year
- 1997
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0809321262
- ISBN 13
- 9780809321261
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
Lois Wille’s illustrated account provides behind-the-scenes insight into how a small number of Chicago business leaders transformed the dangerous and seedy South Loop into an integrated and thriving community in the heart of the central city. The obstacles to the evolution of Dearborn Park were quite formidable, including a succession of six mayors, huge economic impediments, policy disputes engendered among people used to making their own corporate decisions, the wretched reputation of the South Loop, problems with the Chicago public school system, and public mistrust of a project supported by the wealthy, no matter how altruistic the goal. It took twenty years and millions of dollars, but it will pay off and in fact is paying off right now.
With Dearborn Park, Chicago left a formula that other cities can use to turn fallow land into vibrant neighborhoods―without big government subsidies. As Wille explains, the realization of this vision requires shared investment and shared risk on the part of local businesses, financial institutions, and government. It links private and public influence and capital. Wille explains how these elements worked together to build a neighborhood in a blighted tract of Chicago’s Loop. She also describes how key decisions affecting the public interest were made during a time of profound change in the city’s political life: Dearborn Park was conceived during the final years of the most powerful political machine in America and had to adapt as that machine crumbled and city government was reshaped
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About the Author
Lois Wille won the Pulitzer Prize in 1963 for a series of Chicago Daily News articles covering the refusal of public health agencies in Chicago and Cook County to provide contraceptive services for indigent women. In 1989 she received her second Pulitzer Prize, this time for editorial writing as the editorial page editor for the Chicago Tribune. She is the author of Forever Open, Clear and Free: The Struggle for Chicago’s Lakefront.
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