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Reviewed by Joseph C. Bigott | Book Review | The Indiana Magazine of History, 104.2 | The History Cooperative
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June, 2008
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REVIEWS

Chicagoland
City and Suburbs in the Railroad Age

By Ann Durkin Keating
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 262. Maps, illustrations, appendix, notes, index. $25.00.)

In Chicagoland, Ann Durkin Keating rejects the traditional focus on the central city long associated with the model of concentric zones. Instead, she focuses upon the effects of the nineteenth-century railroads that radiated across the metropolitan region and connected the 233 settlements that comprised Chicagoland. Her account identifies the features common across the metropolitan landscape and thus provides compelling reasons for residents to embrace a larger and more inclusive concept of their region. During the nineteenth century, each division of the metropolitan region—north, west, and south—developed industrial, agricultural, residential, recreational, and institutional components, although they did so in different concentrations and mixtures. In chapters devoted to each category, Keating describes the settlements and the developmental patterns that resulted from a logic that crossed city and suburban lines. Her work encourages readers to recognize that the patterns inherent in local understanding of place are in fact present across the metropolitan region. . . .
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