The City in a Garden: A Photographic History of Chicago's Parks

Julia Sniderman Bachrach

Center for American Places, 2001 - Chicago (Ill.) - 179 pages

Gardens, in the form of parks, grew hand in hand with the pioneer town of Chicago. Before the skyscrapers, or the expositions, Chicago's parks suggested a worldly sophistication not usually associated with a boomtown.

About the author

Julia Sniderman Bachrach serves as a historian for the Chicago Park District. Bill Kurtis, author of Bill Kurtis on Assignment, has worked as a journalist, a television news anchor, and the host of A&E Network series such as American Justice and The New Explorers

Bibliographic information

• Title: The City in a Garden: A Photographic History of Chicago's Parks; Volume 1 of Center books on Chicago and environs; Center for American Places - Center Books on Chicago and Environs Series
• Author: Julia Sniderman Bachrach
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Center for American Places, 2001
• ISBN: 1930066015, 9781930066014
• Length: 179 pages