Ann Durkin Keating is professor of history at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. She is coeditor of The Encyclopedia of Chicago and the author of several books, including Chicagoland: City and Suburbs in the Railroad Age and Chicago Neighborhoods and Suburbs: A Historical Guide.
"Ann Durkin Keating has taken on the least explored area of Chicago history - its raucous beginnings - and brought it magnificently to life. The book is a landmark work, deeply researched and vividly written." (Donald L. Miller, author of City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America)"
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