List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Metropolitan Production System; Section I. Building the Industrial Metropolis; 1 Chicago, the Mighty City; 2 The Suburban Solution; 3 Four Factory Districts, 1860-1940; 4 The Shifting Geography of Metropolitan Employment: Starts, Additions, and Moves; Section II. Networking the Industrial Metropolis; 5 The Metropolitan Geography of Firm Linkages, 1872-1901; 6 Forging the Calumet District, 1880-1940; 7 Chicago's Planned Industrial Districts: Clearing and the Central Manufacturing District
8 Networked Space: The Connected Metropolis in the 1920s9 Manufacturing Production Chains and Wholesaling; 10 Local Production Practices and Inter-Firm Linkages: Chicago's Automotive Industry, 1900-1940; Conclusion; Appendix: Bankruptcy Records, 1872-1928; Notes; Index