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Book Synopsis A History of the Chicago Portage by : Benjamin Sells
Download or read book A History of the Chicago Portage written by Benjamin Sells and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven muddy miles transformed a region and a nation This fascinating account explores the significance of the Chicago Portage, one of the most important—and neglected—sites in early US history. A seven-mile-long strip of marsh connecting the Chicago and Des Plaines Rivers, the portage was inhabited by the earliest indigenous people in the Midwest and served as a major trade route for Native American tribes. A link between the Mississippi River and the Atlantic Ocean, the Chicago Portage was a geopolitically significant resource that the French, British, and US governments jockeyed to control. Later, it became a template for some of the most significant waterways created in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The portage gave Chicago its name and spurred the city’s success—and is the reason why the metropolis is located in Illinois, not Wisconsin. A History of the Chicago Portage: The Crossroads That Made Chicago and Helped Make America is the definitive story of a national landmark.
Book Synopsis The Location of the Chicago Portage Route of the Seventeenth Century by : Robert Knight
Download or read book The Location of the Chicago Portage Route of the Seventeenth Century written by Robert Knight and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Chicago Portage Site in Danger by : Chicago Portage Committee
Download or read book The Chicago Portage Site in Danger written by Chicago Portage Committee and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Portage Park by : Daniel Pogorzelski
Download or read book Portage Park written by Daniel Pogorzelski and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Chicago, it has long been common knowledge that the neighborhoods have been overshadowed by the Loop's luster. Portage Park is one of these hidden gems, offering up a wealth of history, culture, and art. As the site of a lesser-known Chicago Portage, the largest retail district outside the Loop at Six Corners, the visual backdrop of movies such as My Life and The Color of Money, and the spot where both Abraham Lincoln and John Dillinger legendarily stayed and the sister of the czar of Bulgaria prayed, this corner of Chicago has seen its share of glitz and glory. Discover Portage Park's architectural treasures, whether it is in its place as a part of Chicago's "Bungalow Belt," its wealth of notable buildings spanning different genres and time periods, or its beautiful churches and grand movie palaces. An area diverse in culture, many peoples, beginning with Native Americans and going onto the Yankees, Irish, Scandinavians, eastern Europeans, and even a Tibetan lama, have made Portage Park their home, each adding their own unique contribution to the vibrant cultural landscape. The site of the largest concentration of Chicago's legendary Polish population, it is also the place where immigrants left the inner city's ethnic enclaves to take part in the American dream.
Book Synopsis Chicago: Its History and Its Builders by : Josiah Seymour Currey
Download or read book Chicago: Its History and Its Builders written by Josiah Seymour Currey and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Chicago River by : Jonathan Genzen
Download or read book The Chicago River written by Jonathan Genzen and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calling upon his considerable novelistic skills, Loren D. Estleman exposes the black heart of a seemingly stable, well-run city suddenly pitched into violence and chaos. A delicate balance of forces-greed and corruption, ambition and desire-run out of control in the wake of a serial killer's grisly rampage.A power struggle-between a police chief who has looked the other way for too long, a Mafia boss who holds the city's vices in his powerful grasp, and media reporters looking for a big story-turns what has been a minor dispute into a desperate struggle for survival.Setting this drama in a blue-collar metropolis dominated by an oil company, Estleman, with an unerring eye for telling detail and an ear for dialogue that reveals the secret desires of his characters, crafts a fascinating, deadly tapestry of love, ambition, revenge, and redemption, a stunning portrait of the human condition.
Book Synopsis Chicago Historical Society Collection by : Chicago Historical Society
Download or read book Chicago Historical Society Collection written by Chicago Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chicago River written by Libby Hill and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Lake Claremont Press, 2000.
Book Synopsis Chicago: Its History and its Builders, Volume 1 by : Josiah Seymour Currey
Download or read book Chicago: Its History and its Builders, Volume 1 written by Josiah Seymour Currey and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maybe there has never been a more comprehensive work on the history of Chicago than the five volumes written by Josiah S. Currey - and possibly there will never be. Without making this work a catalogue or a mere list of dates or distracting the reader and losing his attention, he builds a bridge for every historically interested reader. The history of Windy City is not only particularly interesting to her citizens, but also important for the understanding of the history of the West. This volume is number one out of five and covers the time from the period of discovery to the slavery issues of the town in the 19th century.
Download or read book The Chicago River written by Libby Hill and published by Lake Claremont Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the making and perpetual remaking of the Chicago River by everything from preglacial forces to the interventions of an emerging and mighty city is encompassed in this intimate biography of the heroic body of water. The book discusses how when French explorers Jolliet and Marquette used the Chicago portage to access the Mississippi River system, the Chicago River was but a humble, even sluggish, stream in the right place at the right time. American Regional History Publishing Award - 1st Place - Midwest Region Midwest Independent Publishers Association Merit Award - 2nd Place - History One of ten "outstanding nominations" for the Abel Wolman Award for the best new book in the field of public works history Used and abused. Straightened and channelized. Reversed and revered. But never ignored... An Intimate Biography of the Heroic Creek that Chicago Made When French explorers Jolliet and Marquette used the Chicago portage to access the Mississippi River system, the Chicago River was but a humble, even sluggish, stream in the right place at the right time. That's the story of the making of Chicago. This is the other story--the story of the making and perpetual re-making of a river by everything from pre-glacial forces to the interventions of an emerging and mighty city.
Download or read book Chicago written by Lloyd Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Beginnings of Chicago by : Edwin Erle Sparks
Download or read book The Beginnings of Chicago written by Edwin Erle Sparks and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Portage County, Ohio by : Robert C. Brown
Download or read book History of Portage County, Ohio written by Robert C. Brown and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chicago and the Old Northwest, 1673-1835 by : Milo Milton Quaife
Download or read book Chicago and the Old Northwest, 1673-1835 written by Milo Milton Quaife and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chicago written by Lloyd Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Portage to San Cristobal of A. H. by : George Steiner
Download or read book The Portage to San Cristobal of A. H. written by George Steiner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine, thirty years after the end of World War II, Israeli Nazi-hunters, some of whom lost relatives in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany, find a silent old man deep in the Amazon jungle. He is Adolph Hitler. The narrative that follows is a profound and disturbing exploration of the nature of guilt, vengeance, language, and the power of evil—each undiminished over time. George Steiner's stunning novel, now with a new afterword, will continue to provoke our thinking about Nazi Germany's unforgettable past. "Two readings have convinced me that this is a fiction of extraordinary power and thoughtfulness. . . . [A] remarkable novel."—Bernard Bergonzi, Times Literary Supplement "In this tour de force Mr. Steiner makes his reader re-examine, to whatever conclusions each may choose, a history from which we would prefer to avert our eyes."—Edmund Fuller, Wall Street Journal "Portage largely avoids both the satisfactions of the traditional novel and the horrifying details of Holocaust literature. Instead, Steiner has taken as his model the political imaginings of an Orwell or Koestler. . . . He has produced a philosophic fantasy of remarkable intensity."—Otto Friedrich, Time
Book Synopsis Chicago Historical Society's Collection by : Chicago Historical Society
Download or read book Chicago Historical Society's Collection written by Chicago Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENTS.--I. Flower, G. History of the English settlement in Edwards County, Illinois. 1882.--II. Reid, H. Biographical sketch of Enoch Long. 1884.--III. Edwards, N. The Edwards papers. 1884.--IV. Mason, E. G., ed. Early Chicago and Illinois. 1890.--V. Boggess, A. C. The settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830. 1908.--VI-IX. Polk, J. K. The diary of James K. Polk ... 1845 to 1849 ... ed. ... by M. M. Quaife. 1910.--X. Putnam, J. W. The Illinois and Michigan canal. 1918.--[XI] Ingraham, C. A. Elmer E. Ellsworth and the zouaves of '61. [1925]--XII. Knight, R. and Zeuch, L. H. The location of the Chicago portage route of the seventeenth century. 1928.
