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| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 103.4 | The History Cooperative
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December, 2007
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REVIEWS

Two Tales of a City
Rebuilding Chicago's Architectural and Social Landscape, 1986–2005

By Gail Satler. Foreward by Lee Bey
(DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006. Pp. xvi, 256. Illustrations, index. $39.95.)

Gail Satler's Two Tales of a City is a coffee-table book that aims to make an argument. In this sense, it resembles historian Timothy Gilfoyle's recently published Millennium Park: Creating a Chicago Landmark (2006), a thick volume loaded with photographs and maps that also includes a detailed account of how Chicago's most famous contemporary monument came to be. Satler's discussion of recent Chicago planning and development initiatives, though running to under 250 pages of text and photographs, manages to cover Millennium Park, the downtown Loop's refurbished State Street corridor, developments along the main and south branches of the Chicago River, and a variety of other residential, commercial, and transportation infrastructure projects around the city. Indeed, the sheer number of sites that Satler visits and interprets seems to hinder her in developing a coherent overall interpretation of contemporary development trends in Chicago. . . .
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