City of Lake and Prairie: Chicago's Environmental History

Book Overview

Known as the Windy City and the Hog Butcher to the World, Chicago has earned a more apt sobriquet--City of Lake and Prairie--with this compelling, innovative, and deeply researched environmental history. Sitting at the southwestern tip of Lake Michigan, one of the largest freshwater bodies in the world, and on the eastern edge of the tallgrass prairies that fill much of the North American interior, early residents in the land that Chicago now occupies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822966735
• ISBN13: 9780822966739
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"