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Download or read book Chicago written by A. J. Liebling and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Chicagoans rose in protest over A. J. Liebling’s tongue-in-cheek tour of their fair city in 1952. Liebling found much to admire in the Windy City’s people and culture—its colorful language, its political sophistication, its sense of its own history and specialness. But Liebling offended that city’s image of itself when he discussed its entertainments, its built landscapes, and its mental isolation from the world’s affairs. Liebling, a writer and editor for the New Yorker, lived in Chicago for nearly a year. While he found a home among its colorful inhabitants, he couldn’t help comparing Chicago with some other cities he had seen and loved, notably Paris, London, and especially New York. His magazine columns brought down on him a storm of protests and denials from Chicago’s defenders, and he gently and humorously answers their charges and acknowledges his errors in a foreword written especially for the book edition. Liebling describes the restaurants, saloons, and striptease joints; the newspapers, cocktail parties, and political wards; the university; and the defining event in Chicago’s mythic past, the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre. Illustrated by Steinberg, Chicago is a loving, if chiding, portrait of a great American metropolis. “Good entertainment. The book is attractively designed, the illustrations are first-rate and Mr. Liebling can write.”—New York Times “Mr. Liebling’s entertaining book can be highly recommended.”—New York Herald Tribune “He has shown his readers in his lively, sardonic style exactly the split-personality city that he feels Chicago to be.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Book Synopsis Chicago by : Rhodes & McClure Pub. Co., Chicago
Download or read book Chicago written by Rhodes & McClure Pub. Co., Chicago and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Black Chicago's First Century by : Christopher Robert Reed
Download or read book Black Chicago's First Century written by Christopher Robert Reed and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2005-07-25 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Black Chicago’s First Century, Christopher Robert Reed provides the first comprehensive study of an African American population in a nineteenth-century northern city beyond the eastern seaboard. Reed’s study covers the first one hundred years of African American settlement and achievements in the Windy City, encompassing a range of activities and events that span the antebellum, Civil War, Reconstruction, and post-Reconstruction periods. The author takes us from a time when black Chicago provided both workers and soldiers for the Union cause to the ensuing decades that saw the rise and development of a stratified class structure and growth in employment, politics, and culture. Just as the city was transformed in its first century of existence, so were its black inhabitants. Methodologically relying on the federal pension records of Civil War soldiers at the National Archives, as well as previously neglected photographic evidence, manuscripts, contemporary newspapers, and secondary sources, Reed captures the lives of Chicago’s vast army of ordinary black men and women. He places black Chicagoans within the context of northern urban history, providing a better understanding of the similarities and differences among them. We learn of the conditions African Americans faced before and after Emancipation. We learn how the black community changed and developed over time: we learn how these people endured—how they educated their children, how they worked, organized, and played. Black Chicago’s First Century is a balanced and coherent work. Anyone with an interest in urban history or African American studies will find much value in this book.
Book Synopsis Gangland Chicago by : Richard C. Lindberg
Download or read book Gangland Chicago written by Richard C. Lindberg and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engrossing tale of gangs and organized criminality begins in the frontier saloons situated in the marshy flats of Chicago, the future world class city of Mid-continent. Gangland Chicago recounts the era of parlor gambling, commercialized vice districts continuing through the bloody Prohibition bootlegging wars; failed reform movements; the rise of post-World War II juvenile criminal gangs and the saga of the Blackstone Rangers in a chaotic, racially divided city. , Gang violence and street crime is endemic in contemporary Chicago. There is much more to the saga of crime, politics, and armed violence than Al Capone and John Dillinger. Gangland Chicago explores the changing patterns of criminal behavior, politics, gangs, youth crime and the failures of reform in its historic totality. Richard Lindberg takes the reader on a journey through decades of a troubled past to delve deep into the evolution of street gangs and organized violence endemic in Chicago. Small ethnic gangs organized in ethnic slum districts of the city expanded into the well-known organized crime syndicates of Chicago’s history. Gangland Chicago is full of stories of unchecked violence, lawlessness, and mayhem. Unlike other standard true crime accounts focused exclusively on the Prohibition era, this historical look-back probes the obscure and forgotten dark corners of city crime history. Lindberg details how both “organized” and “dis-organized” street gangs have paralyzed city neighborhoods and transformed the crimes of the Windy City from street thuggery and common ruffians protected and nurtured by politicians into a protected class is gripping. Gangland Chicago is a revealing look at the Chicago underworld of yesterday and today. This comprehensive volume is sure to entertain and inform any reader interested in the evolution of organized crime and gangs in America’s most representative city of the American Heartland.
Book Synopsis Chicago’s First Crime King: Michael Cassius McDonald by : Kelly Pucci
Download or read book Chicago’s First Crime King: Michael Cassius McDonald written by Kelly Pucci and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Michael Cassius McDonald arrived in Chicago as a teenage scam artist who quickly sketched a blueprint for running the city through its criminal underworld. Chicago's original mob boss, he procured presidential pardons, stuffed mayoral ballot boxes, and operated the town's plushest gambling parlor. But he was also a philanthropist who befriended Clarence Darrow, employed Theodore Dreiser, promoted the World's Fair, and funded the Lake Street L. His scandalous private life mirrored the truth of his career, with more than one marriage mired in a love triangle and a murder trial. Kelly Pucci charts the rise of Chicago's first kingpin."--Provided by publisher.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Financial Services. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :264 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (121 download)
Book Synopsis HUD's Takeover of the Chicago Housing Authority by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Financial Services. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity
Download or read book HUD's Takeover of the Chicago Housing Authority written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Financial Services. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chicago Dairy Produce written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual Report - National Endowment for the Humanities by : National Endowment for the Humanities
Download or read book Annual Report - National Endowment for the Humanities written by National Endowment for the Humanities and published by . This book was released on with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes appendices.
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Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1196 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Agriculture, rural development, and related agencies appropriations for 1980 by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies
Download or read book Agriculture, rural development, and related agencies appropriations for 1980 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Congressional Record by : United States. Congress
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1208 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (15 download)
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Download or read book Agricultural programs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hearings by : United States. Congress. Senate
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :2064 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Investigations of Railroads, Holding Companies, and Affiliated Companies, and Related Matters by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce
Download or read book Investigations of Railroads, Holding Companies, and Affiliated Companies, and Related Matters written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 2064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1940 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (319 download)
Book Synopsis Investigation of Railroads, Holding Companies, Affiliated Companies, and Related Matters by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce
Download or read book Investigation of Railroads, Holding Companies, Affiliated Companies, and Related Matters written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 1940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Regulation of Railway Rates by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce
Download or read book Regulation of Railway Rates written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annals of Cleveland--1818-1935 ... by : United States. Work Projects Administration. Ohio
Download or read book Annals of Cleveland--1818-1935 ... written by United States. Work Projects Administration. Ohio and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
