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Author | : Greg Borzo |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2021-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439673985 |
Download A History Lover's Guide to Chicago Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Founded next to a great lake and a sluggish river, Chicago grew faster than any city ever has. Splendid department stores created modern retailing, and the skyscraper was invented to handle the needs of booming businesses in an increasingly concentrated downtown. The stockyards fed the world, and railroads turned the city into the nation's transportation hub. A great fire leveled the city, but Chicago rose again. Glorious museums, churches and theaters sprang up. Explore a missile site that became a bird sanctuary and discover how Chicago's first public library came to be located in an abandoned water tank. Follow the steps of business leaders and society dames, anarchists and army generals, and learn whose ashes were surreptitiously sprinkled over Wrigley Field. Combining years of research and countless miles of guided tours, author Greg Borzo pursues Chicago's sweeping historical arc through its fascinating nooks and crannies.
Author | : Greg Borzo |
Publisher | : History Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2021-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781540250438 |
Download History Lover's Guide to Chicago Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Founded next to a great lake and a sluggish river, Chicago grew faster than any city ever has. Splendid department stores created modern retailing, and the skyscraper was invented to handle the needs of booming businesses in an increasingly concentrated downtown. The stockyards fed the world, and railroads turned the city into the nation's transportation hub. A great fire leveled the city, but Chicago rose again. Glorious museums, churches and theaters sprang up. Explore a missile site that became a bird sanctuary and discover how Chicago's first public library came to be located in an abandoned water tank. Follow the steps of business leaders and society dames, anarchists and army generals, and learn whose ashes were surreptitiously sprinkled over Wrigley Field. Combining years of research and countless miles of guided tours, author Greg Borzo pursues Chicago's sweeping historical arc through its fascinating nooks and crannies.
Author | : Herman Kogan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Chicago (Ill.) |
ISBN | : |
Download Chicago: a Pictorial History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A pictorial history from 1858 to the present with over 400 illustrations, photographs and drawings.
Author | : Michael H. Ebner |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226182056 |
Download Creating Chicago's North Shore Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
They are the suburban jewels that crown one of the world's premier cities. Evanston, Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Glencoe, Highland Park, Lake Forest, Lake Bluff: together, they comprise the North Shore of Chicago, a social registry of eight communities that serve as a genteel enclave of affluence, culture, and high society. Historian Michael H. Ebner explains the origins and evolution of the North Shore as a distinctive region. At the same time, he tells the paradoxical story of how these suburbs, with their common heritage, mutual values, and shared aspirations, still preserve their distinctly separate identities. Embedded in this history are important lessons about the uneasy development of the American metropolis.
Author | : Jennifer Olvera |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-06-14 |
Genre | : Chicago (Ill.) |
ISBN | : 9780762770151 |
Download Food Lovers' Guide to Chicago Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The ultimate guide to Chicago's food scene provides the inside scoop on the best places to find, enjoy, and celebrate local culinary offerings. Written for residents and visitors alike to find producers and purveyors of tasty local specialties, as well as a rich array of other, indispensable food-related information including: food festivals and culinary events; specialty food shops; farmers markets and farm stands; trendy restaurants and time-tested iconic landmarks; and recipes using local ingredients and traditions."
Author | : David M. Solzman |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Chicago River Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Provides a guidebook to the river and its waterways. Explores the physical character as well as the natural history of the river.
Author | : Steve Dolinsky |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2021-10-15 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 081014428X |
Download The Ultimate Chicago Pizza Guide Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"The Ultimate Guide to Chicago Pizza: A History of Squares & Slices in the Windy City takes on Chicago pizza and its histories, zeroing in on the city proper, legendary places and chef and signature styles"--
Author | : St. Sukie de la Croix |
Publisher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2012-07-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0299286932 |
Download Chicago Whispers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Chicago Whispers illuminates a colorful and vibrant record of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people who lived and loved in Chicago from the city’s beginnings in the 1670s as a fur-trading post to the end of the 1960s. Journalist St. Sukie de la Croix, drawing on years of archival research and personal interviews, reclaims Chicago’s LGBT past that had been forgotten, suppressed, or overlooked. Included here are Jane Addams, the pioneer of American social work; blues legend Ma Rainey, who recorded “Sissy Blues” in Chicago in 1926; commercial artist J. C. Leyendecker, who used his lover as the model for “The Arrow Collar Man” advertisements; and celebrated playwright Lorraine Hansberry, author of A Raisin in the Sun. Here, too, are accounts of vice dens during the Civil War and classy gentlemen’s clubs; the wild and gaudy First Ward Ball that was held annually from 1896 to 1908; gender-crossing performers in cabarets and at carnival sideshows; rights activists like Henry Gerber in the 1920s; authors of lesbian pulp novels and publishers of “physique magazines”; and evidence of thousands of nameless queer Chicagoans who worked as artists and musicians, in the factories, offices, and shops, at theaters and in hotels. Chicago Whispers offers a diverse collection of alternately hip and heart-wrenching accounts that crackle with vitality.
Author | : Captivating History |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 2020-01-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781647484453 |
Download History of Chicago Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From procuring drinking water to implementing racial equality, nothing has ever been simple for the people who have called Chicago home - and yet there is immense pride among Chicagoans for what they and their fellow people have achieved.
Author | : Adam Selzer |
Publisher | : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2016-10-25 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 151071345X |
Download Mysterious Chicago Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From Chicago historian Adam Selzer, expert on all of the Windy City’s quirks and oddities, comes a compelling heavily researched anthology of the stories behind its most fascinating unsolved mysteries. To create this unique volume, Selzer has collected forty unsolved mysteries from the 1800s to modern day. He has poured through all newspaper, magazine, and book references to them, and consulted expert historians. Topics covered include who really started the great Chicago fire, who was the first “automobile murderer,” and even if there was actually a vampire slaying at Rose Hill cemetery. The result is both a colorful read to get lost in, a window to a world of curiosity and wonder, as well as a volume that separates fact from fiction—true crime from urban legend. Complementing the gripping stories Selzer presents are original images of the crime and its suspects as developed by its original investigators. Readers will marvel at how each character and crime were presented, and happily journey with Selzer as he presents all facts and theories presented at the time of the “crime” and uses modern hindsight to assemble the pieces.