Chicago, City on the Move!.
Author | : Central Area Circulator Project (Chicago, Ill.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1993* |
Genre | : Local transit |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Central Area Circulator Project (Chicago, Ill.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1993* |
Genre | : Local transit |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael F. Williams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Local transit |
ISBN | : 9780978545031 |
For close to 150 years, photographers have documented the construction of Chicago's public transportation system. They photographed the building of the city's famous ?L? lines and subway tunnels. And they photographed the streetcars that glided through city streets. For the first time, these photos in the Chicago Transit Authority archive are available in Chicago: City on the Move. The book shows Chicago in a new light. It presents a history of the city through mass transportation. But this is not a book of nostalgia. Although the photos are decades old, the subject is very much alive. Take a trip on the Blue Geese, the Green Hornets and the Old Reds. This is your chance to see Chicago as it was and better understand Chicago as it is. This is a book for people who love transportation, who love photography and who love the city on the move.Two-hundred and fifty pictures in duotone.
Author | : Nelson Algren |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226013862 |
Ernest Hemingway once said of Nelson Algren's writing that "you should not read it if you cannot take a punch." The prose poem, Chicago: City on the Make, filled with language that swings and jabs and stuns, lives up to those words. In this sixtieth anniversary edition, Algren presents 120 years of Chicago history through the lens of its "nobodies nobody knows" the tramps, hustlers, aging bar fighters, freed death-row inmates, and anonymous working stiffs who prowl its streets.
Author | : Robin Wagner-Pacifici |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780226869773 |
Preface Acknowledgments 1: A Framework for Articulating Horror 2: What Is MOVE? 3: The Language of Domesticity 4: Bureaucratic Discourse: The Policy, the Plan, the Operation5: The Law and Its Apparatus: Speaking Warrants and Weapons 6: Decarcerating Discourse Notes Bibliography Index.
Author | : Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Dominic A. Pacyga |
Publisher | : Loyola Press |
Total Pages | : 606 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
A guide to fifteen tours through Chicago neighborhoods emphasizing historic landmarks and pointing out institutions and buildings which had important roles in each neighborhoods growth.
Author | : Donald L. Miller |
Publisher | : Rosetta Books |
Total Pages | : 1084 |
Release | : 2014-04-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0795339852 |
“A wonderfully readable account of Chicago’s early history” and the inspiration behind PBS’s American Experience (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). Depicting its turbulent beginnings to its current status as one of the world’s most dynamic cities, City of the Century tells the story of Chicago—and the story of America, writ small. From its many natural disasters, including the Great Fire of 1871 and several cholera epidemics, to its winner-take-all politics, dynamic business empires, breathtaking architecture, its diverse cultures, and its multitude of writers, journalists, and artists, Chicago’s story is violent, inspiring, passionate, and fascinating from the first page to the last. The winner of the prestigious Great Lakes Book Award, given to the year’s most outstanding books highlighting the American heartland, City of the Century has received consistent rave reviews since its publication in 1996, and was made into a six-hour film airing on PBS’s American Experience series. Written with energetic prose and exacting detail, it brings Chicago’s history to vivid life. “With City of the Century, Miller has written what will be judged as the great Chicago history.” —John Barron, Chicago Sun-Times “Brims with life, with people, surprise, and with stories.” —David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of John Adams and Truman “An invaluable companion in my journey through Old Chicago.” —Erik Larson, New York Times–bestselling author of The Devil in the White City
Author | : Aaron Cohen |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2019-09-25 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 022665303X |
A Chicago Tribune Book of 2019, Notable Chicago Reads A Booklist Top 10 Arts Book of 2019 A No Depression Top Music Book of 2019 Curtis Mayfield. The Chi-Lites. Chaka Khan. Chicago’s place in the history of soul music is rock solid. But for Chicagoans, soul music in its heyday from the 1960s to the 1980s was more than just a series of hits: it was a marker and a source of black empowerment. In Move On Up, Aaron Cohen tells the remarkable story of the explosion of soul music in Chicago. Together, soul music and black-owned businesses thrived. Record producers and song-writers broadcast optimism for black America’s future through their sophisticated, jazz-inspired productions for the Dells and many others. Curtis Mayfield boldly sang of uplift with unmistakable grooves like “We’re a Winner” and “I Plan to Stay a Believer.” Musicians like Phil Cohran and the Pharaohs used their music to voice Afrocentric philosophies that challenged racism and segregation, while Maurice White of Earth, Wind, and Fire and Chaka Khan created music that inspired black consciousness. Soul music also accompanied the rise of African American advertisers and the campaign of Chicago’s first black mayor, Harold Washington, in 1983. This empowerment was set in stark relief by the social unrest roiling in Chicago and across the nation: as Chicago’s homegrown record labels produced rising stars singing songs of progress and freedom, Chicago’s black middle class faced limited economic opportunities and deep-seated segregation, all against a backdrop of nationwide deindustrialization. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews and a music critic’s passion for the unmistakable Chicago soul sound, Cohen shows us how soul music became the voice of inspiration and change for a city in turmoil.
Author | : VanDam (Firm) |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2004-04-03 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0312311206 |
Conveniently sized for a pocket, briefcase, or backpack, the redesigned Let's Go Chicago Pocket City Guide is an easy-to-use guide contained within a foldout map - a vital resource for residents and tourists alike. The eleven sturdy panels of full-color maps show Chicago's downtown and metro areas, as well as the city's public transportation routes. The forty pages of text provide essential information on neighborhoods, sights, museums, dining, nightlife, and shopping in every price range. Quick-reference sight and street indices help you orient yourself and get where you need to go.
Author | : Alex Kotlowitz |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2019-05-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022661901X |
“Chicago is a tale of two cities,” headlines declare. This narrative has been gaining steam alongside reports of growing economic divisions and diverging outlooks on the future of the city. Yet to keen observers of the Second City, this is nothing new. Those who truly know Chicago know that for decades—even centuries—the city has been defined by duality, possibly since the Great Fire scorched a visible line between the rubble and the saved. For writers like Alex Kotlowitz, the contradictions are what make Chicago. And it is these contradictions that form the heart of Never a City So Real. The book is a tour of the people of Chicago, those who have been Kotlowitz’s guide into this city’s – and by inference, this country’s – heart. Chicago, after all, is America’s city. Kotlowitz introduces us to the owner of a West Side soul food restaurant who believes in second chances, a steelworker turned history teacher, the “Diego Rivera of the projects,” and the lawyers and defendants who populate Chicago’s Criminal Courts Building. These empathic, intimate stories chronicle the city’s soul, its lifeblood. This new edition features a new afterword from the author, which examines the state of the city today as seen from the double-paned windows of a pawnshop. Ultimately, Never a City So Real is a love letter to Chicago, a place that Kotlowitz describes as “a place that can tie me up in knots but a place that has been my muse, my friend, my joy.”