Timothy J. Gilfoyle is Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago, where he teaches American Urban and Social History. He is the author of Millennium Park: Creating a Chicago Landmark (University of Chicago Press and the Chicago Historical Society, 2006) which was a finalist for the nonfiction prize of the Society of Midland Authors and was named one of the "Best Books of 2006" by the Chicago Tribune and a "Season's Selection" by the San Francisco Chronicle. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Urban History and a Co-editor of the Historical Studies in Urban America series of the University of Chicago Press. He has been a Minow Family Foundation Fellow (2001-02), a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow (1998-99), a Senior Fellow at the Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution (1997) and a N.E.H./Lloyd Lewis Fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago (1993-94).