References

How old-fashioned can you get? Yes, these are actual paper-based, non-hypertext books, pamphlets, magazines, and so on.

Waterworks, Public Works, History, etc.

Author	Title	Publisher	Date(s)	ISBN/LCCCN	Description
Chicago Department of Public Works	Chicago Public Works: A History	Chicago Department of Public Works Chicago, IL (Printed by Rand McNally, Chicago)	1973	LCCCN 73-85375	The Department tells the history of ditches and tunnels in Chicago in a compact coffee table book. Lots of pictures, some of them familiar, some new, plus good supporting text.
Cutler, Irving	Chicago Metropolis of the Mid-Continent	Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company Dubuque, IA	1973, 1976	0-8403-1371-3	A comprehensive summary of the natural and social geography of Chicago.
Cutler, Irving (ed.)	The Chicago Metropolitan Area: Selected Geographic Readings	Simon and Schuster New York, NY	1970	No ISBN	A collection of papers relating to Chicago geography.
Ebner, Michael H.	Creating Chicago's North Shore A Suburban History	University of Chicago Press Chicago, IL	1988	0-226-18505-3	Getting close to a full-size coffee-table book, this is nonetheless a carefully researched (footnoted, even) work with good coverage of the hand-wringing that accompanied the topic of proper drainage.
Hansen, Harry	The Chicago	Farrar & Rinehart New York, NY	1942	(no ISBN)	An account of the Chicago River's role in Chicago history. Has a good version of the opening of the Ship and Sanitary Canal, which was rushed to head off a possible injunction by St. Louis.
Mayer, Harold M. Wade, Richard C.	Chicago: Growth of a Metropolis	University of Chicago Press Chicago, IL	1969	0-226-51273-8 (cloth) 0-226-51273-6 (paper)	A history of Chicago, largely in pictures. The book also contains several original maps which offer some tantalizing clues about the way things used to be.
Moffat, Bruce	Forty Below The Story of the Chicago Freight Tunnels Interurbans Special 82	Interurban Press Glendale, CA	1982	0-916374054-8	A well-organized railfan book, which made Mr. Moffat into a minor celebrity during the Great Chicago Flood of 1992. A revised edition of the book appeared after the flood. Moffat has also written a history of the "L".
Redd, Jim	The Illinois and Michigan Canal A Contemporary Perspective	Southern Illinois University Press Carbondale and Edwardsville, IL	1993	0-8093-1660-9	A history of the I&M Canal plus an assessment of its somewhat sad and neglected status today. Photos by the author.
Swanson, Leslie C.	Canals of Mid-America	Leslie C. Swanson Moline, IL	1964, 1984	(no ISBN)	A booklet with photos, covering canals from Ohio to Iowa, with a focus on the I&M and Hennepin Canals in Illinois.

The North Shore Line

Author	Title	Publisher	Date(s)	ISBN/LCCCN	Description
Campbell, George V.	Days of the North Shore Line	National Bus Trader Inc. Route 3, Box 349B, Theater Road Delavan, Wisconsin 53115-9566	1985	0-933449-01-1	Railfan Campbell's collection of photos, schedules, maps, and stories of the North Shore line. Similar to his other work, North Shore Line Memories, not unlike the Interurban to Milwaukee volume of the Central Electric Railfan's Association, to which he also contributed. The volume includes two photos of Mr. Campbell on one of the line's cars. One photo was taken while the line was in operation...and the other was taken fifty years later at the car's new home in the Illinois Railway Musuem near Union, Illinois.
Campbell, George V.	North Shore Line Memories	Interurban Press Glendale, CA	1980, 1990	0-916374-96-3	More from Mr. Campbell.
Central Electric Railfans Association	Interurban to Milwaukee Bulletin 106	Central Electric Railfans Association Box 503 Chicago, IL 60690	1962, 1974	(no ISBN)	A compilation by the members of CERA, including George Campbell.