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PUBLISHED
Carbondale, IL : Southern Illinois University Press, [2017]
©2017
©2017
DESCRIPTION
198 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780809335794, 0809335794, 9780809335794
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Foreword: Telling fountain stories / Geoffrey Baer -- Preface: Fountains celebrate water / Debra Shore -- Introduction -- First fountains -- Drinking fountains -- Iconic fountains -- Plaza fountains -- Park and parkway fountains -- Fountain frenzy -- Forgotten fountains -- City of fountains -- Creative fountains, past and future -- Appendix: Chicago's major fountains
"[This book] presents in words and pictures many of the more than one hundred outdoor public fountains in Chicago, informing readers about their origin and place in the city"--