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JOSEPH P.
SCHWIETERMAN
Terminal Town
An Illustrated
Guide to
Chicago's
Airports, Bus
Depots, Train
Stations, and
Steamship
Landings
Tuesday,
November 29,
2016
5:30 - 8:30 pm
The
Lounge at Iwan
Ries
19 South
Wabash Ave
Cocktails
at 5:30, with
the
presentation
at 6:00 for
about thirty
minutes,
followed by
Q&A and
general
cocktail
conversation.
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Joseph
P. Schwieterman
is a professor
in the School of
Public Service and
director of the
Chaddick Institute for
Metropolitan
Development at DePaul
University; he also
holds a master's in
transportation from
Northwestern and a PhD
in public policy from
the University of
Chicago.
 Professor
Schwieterman has spent
more than three
decades studying the
Windy City’s
historically
significant and
ever-changing
transportation system.
Schwieterman is a
nationally known
authority on air, bus,
and train travel, his
professional
experience spans
different modes of
travel. He worked at
United Airlines for
eight years, is the
author of When the
Railroad Leaves Town:
American Communities
in the Age of Rail
Line Abandonment, and
is an authority on
intercity bus travel.
In addition to having
published more than 40
technical articles,
Dr. Schwieterman has
authored five books,
including The
Politics of Place: A
History of Zoning in
Chicago, which
won an independent
book publishers
award. Since
joining DePaul, he has
also published an
illustrated history of
planning for the
Chicago region, Beyond
Burnham, and a
book about the
abandonment of
American railroads, When
the Railroad Leaves
Town, which was
a finalist for the
prestigious George
Hilton Award.
From the
publisher, about the
book: "Whether by
road, rail, water,
or sky . . . people
come to Chicago. In
droves. In waves of
migration and
immigration. For
work and for play.
But how do they get
to Chicago? Terminal
Town answers this
question with a
fast-moving history
of Chicago’s many
passenger
transportation
terminals. These
have, for
generations, served
as defining features
of the city’s
cosmopolitan
character.
Showcasing great
icons of
transportation,
including Chicago’s
Union Station,
Dearborn Station,
and Midway and
O’Hare airports, as
well as lesser-known
and long-gone
terminals throughout
the metropolitan
region, this book
illustrates why the
Windy City so richly
deserves its
reputation as
America’s premier
travel hub.
"Featuring 48
stations and
terminals through
short narrative, 215
color photographs,
and 20 custom maps,
Terminal Town
provides a
fascinating portrait
of the city’s
famously complex and
constantly changing
transportation
system.
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About
the
Cigar Society of
Chicago
ONE OF
THE OLDEST AND greatest
traditions of the city
clubs of Chicago is the
discussion of
intellectual, social,
legal, artistic,
historical, scientific,
musical, theatrical, and
philosophical issues in
the company of educated,
bright, and
appropriately
provocative individuals,
all under the beneficent
influence of substantial
amounts of tobacco and
spirits. The
Cigar Society of
Chicago
embraces this tradition
and extends it with its
Informal Smokers,
University Series
lectures, and Cigar
Society Dinners,
in which cigars, and
from time to time pipes
and cigarettes, appear
as an important
component of our version
of the classical
symposium. To be
included in the Cigar
Society's mailing list,
write to the secretary
at
curtis.tuckey@logicophilosophicus.org
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