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In The Heart Of Downtown Chicago, On A Square Block Surrounded By Major Civic Landmarks, There Stands - Absolutely Nothing. Why This Desolation Where There Should Be A Fabulous Skyscraper, A Vertical Money Machine? How Did This Three-acre Chunk Of Prime Urban Real Estate, At One Time The Hub Of A Down-at-heel But Bustling Commercial District, Become A Blank Eyesore, Unused And Unprofitable? And What Does This Sad Vacancy Tell Us About The Fate Not Only Of Chicago But Of Nearly Every American City In The Aftermath Of The Age Of Excess? Here's The Deal Is Urban Historian Ross Miller's Hard-hitting, No-holds Barred Answer To These Troublesome Questions. The Redevelopment Of Block 37, A Richly Historic Site In The Heart Of The North Loop, Was Conceived By Mayor Richard J. Daley, His Successors In City Hall, And An Astonishingly Brazen Crew Of Schemers, Speculators, Pols, And Operators As The Way To Transform An Area Of Urban Commercial Blight - Old, Low-rise Buildings Filled With Marginal If Not Seedy Businesses - Into A Glittering Tower That Would Not Only Be Architecturally Worthy Of Its Neighbors (city Hall, Marshall Field's, The State Of Illinois Building), But Would, With Its 2 Mi

Author

Miller, Ross

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780394589992

Subjects

Sociology, Social Science, Political Science

Rating

4.8 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14