Cover -- Quotes -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Maps by Dennis McClendon -- Introduction -- 1. The Loop, New Year's Eve 1911 -- Part One. Lots of Loops -- 2. Academic Fashion -- 3. Silence -- 4. Lots of Loops -- 5. The Word "Loop" -- 6. The Last Cable Car -- Part Two. The Union Loop -- 7. Dreaming of a "Union Loop" -- 8. Willing the Union Loop into Existence -- 9. The Birth of the Union Loop -- Part Three. The Loop -- 10. The Rectangular Bridge and the Bridge Builder -- 11. Inside and outside the Loop -- 12. The Name "Loop" -- Part Four. The Heart of Chicago
13. "My 'Other Neighborhood'" -- 14. Wandering Downtowns -- 15. Raze the Loop -- 16. The Loop, New Year's Day 2019 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Gallery of Illustrations 1 -- Gallery of Illustrations 2 -- Table, "Use of the Word 'Loop' in Chicago Tribune Headlines, 1882-96" -- About the Author -- Back Cover
