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In Chicago's Industrial Decline Robert Lewis charts the city's decline since the 1920s and describes the early development of Chicago's famed (and reviled) growth machine. Beginning in the 1940s and led by local politicians, downtown business interest, financial institutions, and real estate groups, place-dependent organizations in Chicago implemented several industrial renewal initiatives with the dual purpose of stopping factory closings and attracting new firms in order to turn blighted property into modern industrial sites. At the same time, a more powerful coalition sought to adapt the urban fabric to appeal to middle-class consumption and residential living. As Lewis shows, the two aims were never well integrated, and the result was on-going disinvestment and the inexorable decline of Chicago's industrial space.By the 1950s, Lewis argues, it was evident that the early incarnation of the growth machine had failed to maintain Chicago's economic center in industry. Although larger economic and social forces-specifically, competition for business and for residential development from the suburbs in the Chicagoland region and across the whole United States-played a role in the city's industrial decline, Lewis stresses the deep incoherence of post-WWII economic policy and urban planning that hoped to square the circle by supporting both heavy industry and middle- to upper-class amenities in downtown Chicago.

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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	15 décembre 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781501752643
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	6 Mo

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CHICAGO’S INDUSTRIAL DECLINE

CHICAGO’S INDUSTRIAL DECLINE The Failure of Redevelopment, 1920–1975

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

Robert Lewis

ITHACA AND LONDON

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu.

First published 2020 by Cornell University Press Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Names: Lewis, Robert D., 1954– author. Title: Chicago’s industrial decline : the failure of redevelopment, 1920–1975 / Robert Lewis. Description: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020012527 (print) | LCCN 2020012528 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501752629 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501752643 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501752636 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Industrialization—Illinois—Chicago—History—20th century. | City planning—Illinois—Chicago—History—20th century. | Chicago (Ill.)— Economic conditions—20th century. Classification: LCC HC108.C4 L493 2020 (print) | LCC HC108.C4 (ebook) | DDC 338.9773/1100904—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020012527 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020012528

Cover photograph: Child on rubble in the Chicago Stock Yards, 1950. Box 3, folder 2, Mildred Mead Photographs, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.

Contents

List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Visions of Chicago 1.Industrial Decline and the Rise of the Suburbs 2.naBduniIludditnsgirtlhaeDSuburbanFactoryliecne in Postwar Chicago 3.Blight and the Transformation of Industrial Property 4.Industrial Property and Blight in the 1950s 5.Industrial Renewal and Land Clearance 6.Reinventing Industrial Property 7.Industrial Parks as Industrial Renewal Conclusion: It’s All Over Now

Appendix: Notes on Datasets and Sources Notes Index

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Tables and Figures

Tables 1.1Manufacturing employment in metropolitan Chicago, 1919–72 1.2Manufacturing employment change for selected years, 1919–72 1.3Manufacturing employment change in thirteen metropolitan areas, 1929–72 1.4Manufacturing in Chicago’s northern suburbs, 1924–62 2.1Industrial construction activity of metropolitan Chicago, 1945–60 2.2Industrial construction activity of $10 million or more, 1945–60

Figures 2.1The geography of factory building in metropolitan Chicago, 1945–60 2.2Elk Grove Industrial Park, 1969 2.3Industrial parks in metropolitan Chicago, 1969

2.4Factories and homes in the Near West Side, c. 1932–36 3.1Metropolitan Planning and Housing Council annual luncheon, 1955 3.2The cost of blight to Chicago 4.1Demolition for the Congress Expressway, 1955 4.2Ferd Kramer, the real estate developer 5.1Site plans for industrial redevelopment, 1953 5.2Mixed residential and industrial district, 1957

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5.3The Florsheim factory, West Central district, 1957 5.4The Kohl and Madden factory, West Central district, 1958 6.1Old mixed residential and industrial district slated for renewal, 1959 7.1Child on rubble in the Chicago Stockyards, 1950

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Acknowledgments

Every book has people who contributed in various ways to its making. This, my third and final book on the historical geographies of industrial Chicago, is no dif ferent. In fact, many of the same people that played a part, both large and small, in the previous two have figured in the fashioning of this one. To start at the top, I need to thank Virginia McLaren and Rick DiFrancesco, the two most recent chairs of the Department of Geography and Planning here at the University of Toronto, for the terrific institutional support they have given me over many years. I would also like to extend many thanks to department staff—most impor tant, Kathy Geisbrecht, Maria Wowk, Jessica Finlayson, Tas Hudani, and Yvonne Kenny—for their help over the years. A bunch of department colleagues—Alana Boland, Matt Farish, Paul Hess, Debby Leslie, Scott Prudham, and Katherine Rankin—have sustained me through some difficult times and I thank them very much for their friendship. A Social Science and Humanities Research Grant, “Industrial urban renewal and the industrial change, Chicago, 1930–1973,” allowed me to visit archives in Chicago and Washington, DC. I would like to thank the staff at the Municipal Reference Collection and Special Collections departments at the Harold Wash ington Library Center, Chicago; the Special Collections and University Archives of the University of Illinois, Chicago; the Special Collections Research Center of the University of Chicago; the Chicago Historical Museum; and the National Archives at College Park for their assistance. I should add that the staff at the interlibrary loan office at the University of Toronto went out of their way to help me locate hardtofind sources from a variety of locales. I have been very lucky to have worked with Cornell University Press. The editorial staff—most notably Michael McGandy, Susan Specter, and Clare Kirk patrick Jones—have been superb. Two of the book’s readers, Dominic Pacyga and Domenic Vitiello, provided generous, incisive, and thoughtful remarks on the first draft. The book is much better because of their comments. I would like to thank Florence Grant for her copyediting skills. The book’s excellent index was compiled by Celia Braves. Thank you. I would like to extend a special thanks to Nick Lombardo, who has provided me with unrivalled research and intellectual support over the last ten years. A student and now a friend, Nick’s intelligence, judgement, and enthusiasm have

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