Outgrowth of a symposium, Chicago is history, held in the fall of 2001.

Foreword /Richard Solomon. -- Introduction: Chicago is history / Charles Waldheim -- and Katerina Rüedi Ray. -- Western architecture: regionalism and race in the Inland architect / Joanna Merwood. -- Myth of the Chicago school / Robert Bruegmann. -- The centrality of the Columbian Exposition in the history of Chicago architecture / David Van Zanten. -- William Le Baron Jenney and Chicago's West parks: from prairies to pleasure- grounds / Reuben M. Rainey. -- Does Frank Lloyd Wright belong in Chicago's architectural history? / Sidney K. Robinson. -- Preservation and renewal in post-World War II Chicago / Daniel Bluestone. -- More than Mies: architecture of Chicago mulitfamily housing, 1935-65 / Eric Mumford. -- Selling Mies / David Dunster. -- Inside Mies: living at 860/880 Lake Shore Drive / Janet Abrams. -- 1614 North Hermitage Avenue: painting as inscription / Julia Fish. -- A century of progress: an alternate tale / Lee Bey. -- Only girl architect lonely / Susan F. King. -- Marion Mahoney Griffin: the Chicago years / Pamela Hill. -- The third Chicago school?: marking sexual and ethnic identity / Christopher Reed. -- The Chicago parks: tableaus of naturalization / Jane Wolff. -- The architectural photography of Hedrich-Blessing / Robert A. Sobieszek. -- Forms of the grid / Mitchell Schwarzer. -- Wish you were here: Alvin Boyarsky's picture postcards / Igor Marjanović. -- Bertrand Goldberg: a personal view of architecture / Geoffrey Goldberg. -- Making Marina City: men, money, masquerade and modernity / Katerina Rüedi Ray. -- Walter Netsch: field theory / Martin Felsen -- and Sarah Dunn. -- Systematic genius: Walter Netsch and the architecture of bureaucracy / David Goodman. -- Opposing Mies: the triangular constructs of Harry Weese / Leah Ray. -- Diminishing high-rise public housing / Janet L. Smith. -- Understanding Chicago's high-rise public housing disaster / D. Bradford Hunt. -- Bas-relief urbanism: Chicago's figured field / Sarah Whiting. -- From operational anonymity to brand identity: Chicago O'Hare / Charles Waldheim. -- From flesh to fiberglass: "Cows on parade" in Chicago / C. Greig Crysler.