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September, 2005
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Chicago Aviation
An Illustrated History

By David M. Young
(De Kalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 254. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendices, notes, select bibliography, index. $39.95.)

David Young puts aviation in its place in his newest illustrated history, Chicago Aviation. The author uses many of the organizational strategies typical of aviation writing—retelling "old-timers'" stories, revealing the relevance of local aviation organizations, digesting for the reader the significance of federal regulations in the business of carrying the mail and building airlines—to show how Chicago became an "[a]irport to a nation" (p. 133). This local aviation history, however, expands the genre. Young explains how the geography, the existing transportation infrastructure, and capital resources of Chicago and its environs affected the development of aviation in the city, and he explicates the city's importance to the history of the national transportation system. . . .
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