Chicago Gardens: The Early History

by Cathy Jean Maloney

Once maligned as a swampy outpost, the fledgling city of Chicago brazenly adopted the motto Urbs in Horto or City in a Garden, in 1837. Chicago Gardens shows how this upstart town earned its sobriquet... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226502341
• ISBN13: 9780226502342
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 2.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.2" x 10.2"