{"product_id":"lost-chicago-9780823028719","title":"Lost Chicago","description":"\u003cp\u003e30th Anniversary  These dazzling  poignant pages recreate the magical built environment that thrilled generations of Chicago residents and visitors alike before falling victim to the wrecking ball of progress.  Here are the grand residences and hotels  opulent theaters  legendary trains  and state-of-the-art office buildings and department storesincluding the worlds first skyscraper. Here too are the famous convention halls  parks  and racetracks of a great American city whose architectural treasures have been  and continue to be  recklessly squandered.  Rare photographs and prints  many of them published here for the first time  document the transformative architectural achievements of such giants as Dankmar Adler  Louis Sullivan  John Wellburn Root  Daniel Burnham  William Holabird  and Frank Lloyd Wright. But this remarkable book is much more than a portfolio of now-vanished buildings; within its pages are evocative sketches of scores of Chicago personalities  from the world-famous (Abraham Lincoln  Theodore Dreiser  Clarence Darrow  Ben Hecht  Jane Addams  Cyrus McCormick  George Pullman  and Gustavus Swift  to name just a few) to the locally notorious.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646888108085,"sku":"ByrdShop_0823028712","price":86.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780823028719.jpg?v=1781680139","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/lost-chicago-9780823028719","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}