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260 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780875802824
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Publication date: 27 September 2001
Description
This lavishly illustrated history of Chicago as freight handler to the nation chronicles the vital role of waterborne trade and transportation in building a metropolis on the swampland that the Illiniwek once called Checagou. Louis Jolliet, the fi...
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260 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780875802824
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Publication date: 27 September 2001
Description
This lavishly illustrated history of Chicago as freight handler to the nation chronicles the vital role of waterborne trade and transportation in building a metropolis on the swampland that the Illiniwek once called Checagou. Louis Jolliet, the fi...