Lakefront: Public Trust and Private Rights in Chicago

by Joseph D Kearney and Thomas W. Merrill

Book Overview

How did Chicago, a city known for commerce, come to have such a splendid public waterfront--its most treasured asset? Lakefront reveals a story of social, political, and legal conflict in which private and public rights have clashed repeatedly over time, only to produce, as a kind of miracle, a generally happy ending.

Joseph D. Kearney and Thomas W. Merrill study the lakefront's evolution from the middle of the nineteenth century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501754653
• ISBN13: 9781501754654
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.7" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up