Early Chicago and Illinois
Author | : Edward Gay Mason |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Chicago (Ill.) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Edward Gay Mason |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Chicago (Ill.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Moses |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Chicago (Ill.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Owen Hurd |
Publisher | : Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2007-07-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1613740409 |
From the Native Americans who lived in the Chicago area for thousands of years, to the first European explorers Marquette and Jolliet, to the 2005 Chicago White Sox World Series win, parents, teachers, and kids will love this comprehensive and exciting history of how Chicago became the third largest city in the U.S. Chicago's spectacular and impressive history comes alive through activities such as building a model of the original Ferris Wheel, taking architectural walking tours of the first skyscrapers and Chicago's oldest landmarks, and making a Chicago-style hotdog. Serving as both a guide to kids and their parents and an engaging tool for teachers, this book details the first Chicagoan Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, the Fort Dearborn Massacre, the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the building of the world's first skyscraper, and the hosting of two World's Fairs. In addition to uncovering Windy City treasures such as the birth of the vibrant jazz era of Louis Armstrong and the work of Chicago poets, novelists, and songwriters, kids will also learn about Chicago's triumphant and tortured sports history.
Author | : Edward Gay Mason |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 521 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Chicago (Ill.) |
ISBN | : 9781403500434 |
Author | : Alfred Theodore Andreas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 922 |
Release | : 1886 |
Genre | : Chicago (Ill.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Cathy Jean Maloney |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2008-09-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0226502368 |
Once maligned as a swampy outpost, the fledgling city of Chicago brazenly adopted the motto Urbs in Horto or City in a Garden, in 1837. Chicago Gardens shows how this upstart town earned its sobriquet over the next century, from the first vegetable plots at Fort Dearborn to innovative garden designs at the 1933 World’s Fair. Cathy Jean Maloney has spent decades researching the city’s horticultural heritage, and here she reveals the unusual history of Chicago’s first gardens. Challenged by the region’s clay soil, harsh winters, and fierce winds, Chicago’s pioneering horticulturalists, Maloney demonstrates, found imaginative uses for hardy prairie plants. This same creative spirit thrived in the city’s local fruit and vegetable markets, encouraging the growth of what would become the nation’s produce hub. The vast plains that surrounded Chicago, meanwhile, inspired early landscape architects, such as Frederick Law Olmsted, Jens Jensen, and O.C. Simonds, to new heights of grandeur. Maloney does not forget the backyard gardeners: immigrants who cultivated treasured seeds and pioneers who planted native wildflowers. Maloney’s vibrant depictions of Chicagoans like “Bouquet Mary,” a flower peddler who built a greenhouse empire, add charming anecdotal evidence to her argument–that Chicago’s garden history rivals that of New York or London and ensures its status as a world-class capital of horticultural innovation. With exquisite archival photographs, prints, and postcards, as well as field guide descriptions of living legacy gardens for today’s visitors, Chicago Gardens will delight green-thumbs from all parts of the world.
Author | : John Moses |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1200 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Chicago (Ill.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alfred Theodore Andreas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 888 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : Chicago (Ill.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alfred Theodore Andreas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 694 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Edward G. Mason |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 521 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Chicago (Ill.) |
ISBN | : |