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Common areas of focus in this new Chicagoland regionalism included industrial policy support for legacy manufacturing industries, financing for infrastructure, and service consolidation across municipal and county boundaries. This dissertation looks into the political strategies concerning the how and why of the new regional push in Chicagoland, split into three manuscripts (chapters 2, 3 and 3) on components of Chicagoland regionalism that hold broader significance for regional planning and regional coordination in the twenty-first century: (i) A new project shared among regionalist institutions to organize support for legacy industries in the region, and the re-incorporation of “productive” industries into the imperative for city-regions to “globalize.” (ii) The deep history of regional planning in the Chicago region, and the ways in which policy agendas and political ideologies specific to the region are deployed and reproduced across generations. 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