Many people and institutions have aided my efforts along this 35-year pilgrimage. I would especially like to extend my great appreciation to John Zukowsky and Pauline Saliga, who befriended me at the start of this journey while they were at the Art Institute of Chicago. They showed me many of the “secrets” of how to maximize the vast resources of the Burnham Library.
The following are former students of mine who have each, in their own way, contributed to putting this story together (good memories!). I apologize to any that I may have forgotten (please send me an eMail and I will rectify!). They are listed in my best chronological order of their involvement:
Nancy Ludwig
Robert Klancher
Maxwell Merriman
Debbie Cohen Heller
Luke Field
Adam Koogler
Katelyn Cooper-Parker
James Cornetet
Ryan Lobello
Eric Stear
Carl Sterner
Victorian Saunders
Kyle Campbell
Jennifer Colley Sodo
David Burwinkel
I would also like to thank Timothy Mennel, Executive Editor for the University of Chicago Press, and his review committee, David Van Zanten and Robert Bruegmann, for their patient review of my work and their numerous suggested revisions. Much of what you read here has been influenced their honed expertise in the history of architecture and urban design.
Lastly, I would like to acknowledge the work of historians who came before me in researching and writing about architecture, the skyscraper, and Chicago. We all stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. Among those folks whose work I most admire include, in alphabetical order:
Alfred Andreas
Barry Bergdoll
Daniel Bluestone
Robert Bruegmann
Carl Condit
Nnamdi Elleh
Donald Friedman
Lee Gray
Marilyn Hasbrouck
Wilbert Hasbrouck
Gunny Harboe
Henry-Russell Hitchcock
Donald Hoffmann
William Jordy
Sarah Bradford Landau
Thomas Leslie
Richard Nickel
James O’Gorman
Jeffrey Ochsner
Frank Randall
Pauline Saliga
Tim Samuelson
Joseph Siry
Frances Steiner
Theodore Turak
Robert Twombly
John Vinci
Winston Weisman
Sara Wermiel
Carol Willis
Richard Guy Wilson
Edward Wolner
David Van Zanten
John Zukowski
A note about my sources. I have been writing this manuscript for over 35 years. I have everything footnoted (currently I have over 100 pages of footnotes.), and if you ever need one of my sources, please feel to ask. I simply decided not to include the footnotes to make your reading flow easier. As per the illustrations, I have attempted to note the source of unique images (such as a book or particular website), while those that are readily available online, are noted as such.
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