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Chicago Before the Fire

Louis P. Cain
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Chicago Board of Trade
Chicago outlet
Chicago portage
Chicagoua portage
cholera
Cyrus Hall McCormick
drainage
dry goods
entrepreneur
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finance
Fort Dearborn
fur trade
futures market
Galena & Chicago Union RR
George Dole
George Pullman
grain elevator
Great Lakes
Gurdon S. Hubbard
health
Illinois & Michigan Canal
Illinois Central RR
immigrants
J. Young Scammon
Jean Baptiste Beaubien
John S. Wright
John Wentworth
laboroccupation
Lake Chicago
Lake Michigan
land values
location theory
lumber industry
Marshall Field
mayor
meatpacking
metis
Mississippi River
money supply
National Banking System
national banks
national trade network
nodality
nodenodality
panic
population
portage
position
Potter Palmer
railroad
reapers
River and Harbor Convention
sanitation
specie
speculation
state banks
stockyards
trade route
trade routes
transportation
typhoid fever
Walter Newberry
water supply
William B. Ogden

Product details

  • ISBN 9780252088698
  • Weight: 426g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 10 Jun 2025
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

An advantageous location and entrepreneurial passion helped fuel Chicago's transformation from a fur trading post to a thriving city. Louis P. Cain's economic history places pre-1871 Chicago within the narrative of national expansion and examines infrastructure, finance, and other areas of city life. Business histories tell the story of fortunes made with essential products like meat and grain. Sketches of titans like William Ogden and Cyrus McCormick reveal how real estate, farm equipment, and other industries became engines of local growth. Cain also details public health improvements that made Lake Michigan safe as a water supply while census data informs a portrait of Chicago's population and the lives of the free Blacks and Irish immigrants at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder.

Panoramic and up to date, Chicago before the Fire looks at how an intersection of geography, vision, and investment built a great American city.
About Louis P. Cain
Louis P. Cain is an adjunct professor of economics at Northwestern University and a professor emeritus at Loyola University Chicago. He is the coauthor of The Children of Eve: Population and Well-being in History.

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