Patrick T Reardon
Biographic Data
| ID | 9719734 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick T Reardon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick T |
| FAMILY NAME | Reardon |
| SIGNATURE | REARDON P T |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Lines on Paper, Land as Commodity
IN 1830, CHICAGO WAS A SPECK OF A SETTLEMENT, with fewer than one hundred people at the edge of what was still a frontier wilderness. But that was about to change.On August 4, James Thompson, a South Carolina–born surveyor from Randolph County at the far southwest edge of Illinois, completed his Map of the Town of Chicago, a survey of an area of 0.375 square miles, which he divided into a grid of streets and alleys. Bounded by Kinzie, Madison, St…
Democracy's Rebirth
A half century ago, as a new political science professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Dick Simpson won election to the Chicago City Council for the city's Near North Side Forty-Fourth Ward as an independent—twice! While there, he was one of a handful of non-machine council members, vastly outnumbered by Mayor Richard J. Daley's rubberstamp aldermen. As Simpson notes somewhat wryly in Democracy's Rebirth, “Mayor Daley would chid…
Rediscovering the Art of the Much-Demonized Chicago Wheeler-Dealer Charles Tyson Yerkes
IN THE FALL OF 2003, Sebastian Smee, the art critic of the Daily Telegraph in London, described a mid-nineteenth-century painting by British artist J. M. W. Turner as “an almost unbelievable vision of swirling blue, orange and white light thrusting through fog.” His colleague, Rachel Campbell-Johnston of The Times of London, wrote that the picture was “so spectacular, that like the shadowy group of figures on the foreshore, you can only stare and…
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Rediscovering the Art of the Much-Demonized Chicago Wheeler-Dealer Charles Tyson Yerkes
IN THE FALL OF 2003, Sebastian Smee, the art critic of the Daily Telegraph in London, described a mid-nineteenth-century painting by British artist J. M. W. Turner as “an almost unbelievable vision of swirling blue, orange and white light thrusting through fog.” His colleague, Rachel Campbell-Johnston of The Times of London, wrote that the picture was “so spectacular, that like the shadowy group of figures on the foreshore, you can only stare and…
Democracy's Rebirth
A half century ago, as a new political science professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Dick Simpson won election to the Chicago City Council for the city's Near North Side Forty-Fourth Ward as an independent—twice! While there, he was one of a handful of non-machine council members, vastly outnumbered by Mayor Richard J. Daley's rubberstamp aldermen. As Simpson notes somewhat wryly in Democracy's Rebirth, “Mayor Daley would chid…
Lines on Paper, Land as Commodity
IN 1830, CHICAGO WAS A SPECK OF A SETTLEMENT, with fewer than one hundred people at the edge of what was still a frontier wilderness. But that was about to change.On August 4, James Thompson, a South Carolina–born surveyor from Randolph County at the far southwest edge of Illinois, completed his Map of the Town of Chicago, a survey of an area of 0.375 square miles, which he divided into a grid of streets and alleys. Bounded by Kinzie, Madison, St…
American Environmental and Regional History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · American History and Culture (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Commodity (1 work) · Democracy (1 work) · Frontier (1 work) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (1 work)