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Nineteen fascinating essays, written by leading scholars, take us from Native American prairie burning through the ambitious engineering interventions and brutal manipulations of the industrial era, to more recent conservation and restoration crusades. This book will change the way we think about Chicago and it belongs on the bookshelf of readers who wish to better understand the relationship between nature and urban development. -- Andrew Hurley, University of Missouri-St. Louis Chicago, gateway to the West, is a region where humans have had a complicated history of interaction with the natural world, from the earliest native peoples to present-day environmental activists. City of Lake and Prairie unfolds this remarkable story of ecological richness, destruction, and recovery in essays that are as fascinating and diverse as the communities that have called Chicago home. --Gerald W. Adelmann, President and CEO, Openlands We live in an age of climate change. City of Lake and Prairie brings together leading historians, geographers, and ecologists to explain not only Chicago's environmental history, but the region's impact on larger North American landscapes. From the controlled prairie fires initiated by Native Americans long before the arrival of Europeans to the construction of Deep Tunnel at the turn of the twenty-first century, this innovative volume documents this rich and paradoxical past. City of Lake and Prairie is required reading for anyone interested in understanding not only the Chicago region's environmental past, but it's very future. --Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Loyola University Chicago

Nineteen fascinating essays, written by leading scholars, take us from Native American prairie burning through the ambitious engineering interventions and brutal manipulations of the industrial era, to more recent conservation and restoration crusades. This book will change the way we think about Chicago and it belongs on the bookshelf of readers who wish to better understand the relationship between nature and urban development. -- Andrew Hurley, University of Missouri-St. Louis We live in an age of climate change. City of Lake and Prairie brings together leading historians, geographers, and ecologists to explain not only Chicago's environmental history, but the region's impact on larger North American landscapes. From the controlled prairie fires initiated by Native Americans long before the arrival of Europeans to the construction of Deep Tunnel at the turn of the twenty-first century, this innovative volume documents this rich and paradoxical past. City of Lake and Prairie is required reading for anyone interested in understanding not only the Chicago region's environmental past, but it's very future. --Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Loyola University Chicago Chicago, gateway to the West, is a region where humans have had a complicated history of interaction with the natural world, from the earliest native peoples to present-day environmental activists. City of Lake and Prairie unfolds this remarkable story of ecological richness, destruction, and recovery in essays that are as fascinating and diverse as the communities that have called Chicago home. --Gerald W. Adelmann, President and CEO, Openlands

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William C. Barnett is associate professor and chair of the History Department at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. Ann Durkin Keating is Dr. C. Frederick Toenniges Professor of History at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois.

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