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The Loop

The “L” Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago

By: Patrick T. Reardon

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The Loop

The “L” Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago

By: Patrick T. Reardon

The structure that anchors Chicago Every day Chicagoans rely on the loop of elevated train tracks to get to their jobs, classrooms, or homes in the city’s downtown. But how much do they know about the single most important structure in the history of the Windy City? In engagingly brisk prose, Patrick T. Reardon unfolds the fascinating story about how Chicago’s elevated Loop was built, gave its name to the downtown, helped unify the city, saved the city’s economy, and was itself saved from destruction in the 1970s. This unique volume combines urban history, biography, engineering, architecture, transportation, culture, and politics to explore the elevated Loop’s impact on the city’s development and economy and on the way Chicagoans see themselves. The Loop rooted Chicago’s downtown in a way unknown in other cities, and it protected that area—and the city itself—from the full effects of suburbanization during the second half of the twentieth century. Masses of data underlie new insights into what has made Chicago’s downtown, and the city as a whole, tick. The Loop features a cast of colorful Chicagoans, such as legendary lawyer Clarence Darrow, poet Edgar Lee Masters, mayor Richard J. Daley, and the notorious Gray Wolves of the Chicago City Council. Charles T. Yerkes, an often-demonized figure, is shown as a visionary urban planner, and engineer John Alexander Low Waddell, a world-renowned bridge creator, is introduced to Chicagoans as the designer of their urban railway. This fascinating exploration of how one human-built structure reshaped the social and economic landscape of Chicago is the definitive book on Chicago’s elevated Loop.

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Southern Illinois University Press

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0809338106

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9780809338108

Starting Out

Reflections for Young People

By: Patrick T. Reardon

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Starting Out

Reflections for Young People

By: Patrick T. Reardon

A lively, engaging book for graduates from high school or college or any young person facing life's newest challenges.

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0879462124

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The Loop

The “L” Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago

By: Patrick T. Reardon

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The “L” Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago

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Darkness on the Face of the Deep

By: Patrick T. Reardon

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Darkness on the Face of the Deep

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For this stunning collection, Patrick T. Reardon has chosen as title a line out of Genesis, as reworked by Bob Dylan. That mesh makes sense: in an incantatory voice all his own, Reardon manages to mix the local and the oracular at every turn of phrase. The poems teem with road names, ordinary and overtoned: Randolph Street, Clark Street, Proverb Street, Ecclesiastes Road. What happens on and by those roads can feel, in Reardon's capacious geography, like everything that has ever mattered in human history ("Bull Run, Fort Dearborn, Agincourt") and in literature too ("all sagas and Iliads, all Great White Whales"). Like many of our most astonishing poets, from Homer to Ginsberg, Reardon knows how to make the sacred gritty and the gritty sacred. -Stuart Sherman, author of the history Telling Time and English professor, Fordham University A veteran reporter, Patrick T. Reardon combines an analytical eye with a poet's heart creating verse layered with intrigue and surrender. Darkness on the Face of the Deep weaves together the spiritual, abstract, and fully present. His vibrant poems blend biblical imagery with modern angst. His inquisitive characters, comic and tragic, find paths in landscapes of sorrow, joy, and fear. Readers will take wild rides on juxtaposed associations, as in "African lion," dedicated to Chicago poet Haki Madhubuti: "Flame conflagrates still / those who have ears / to hear, raw hearts, / - steel spine, / mother touch - / as when / he first taught: Don't cry / scream." -John Raffetto, author of the poetry collection Human Botany In Darkness on the Face of the Deep, Patrick T. Reardon has created an Old Testament set in his beloved hometown of Chicago - a beat he knows well. In this remarkable collection, Reardon travels the city's streets and alleyways reporting on a heavenly host of only-in-Chicago characters. Like a modern-day Jeremiah, Reardon offers his personal Book of Lamentations, while providing universal insights into love, loss, and life. Reardon joins other Catholic mystic authors, such as Flannery O'Connor and Jack Kerouac, in exploring the eternal mysteries while facing both the light and the darkness. -Melanie Villines, author of the novel Windy City Sinners and editor / publisher at Silver Birch Press

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Kelsay Books

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1954353766

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