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Chicago Yesterday and Today

Author : Felix Mendelsohn
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781014388636
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (886 download)

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Download or read book Chicago Yesterday and Today written by Felix Mendelsohn and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Chicago Cubs Yesterday & Today

Author : Steve Johnson
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN 13 : 9780760332467
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (324 download)

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Download or read book Chicago Cubs Yesterday & Today written by Steve Johnson and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pairing historical black-and-white images with contemporary photographs, this book is a lavish celebration of the Chicago Cubs. It highlights the ballparks and fans, the players and teams, the broadcasters and behind-the-scenes figures who have defined Chicago baseball for more than a century.

Onward to Chicago

Author : Larry A. McClellan
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809339129
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Onward to Chicago written by Larry A. McClellan and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2023-09-08 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER, 2023 Underground Railroad Free Press Hortense Simmons Memorial Prize for the Advancement of Knowledge! Uncovering stories of the freedom network in northeastern Illinois Decades before the Civil War, Illinois’s status as a free state beckoned enslaved people, particularly those in Kentucky and Missouri, to cross porous river borders and travel toward new lives. While traditional histories of the Underground Railroad in Illinois start in 1839, and focus largely on the romanticized tales of white men, Larry A. McClellan reframes the story, not only introducing readers to earlier freedom seekers, but also illustrating that those who bravely aided them were Black and white, men and women. McClellan features dozens of individuals who made dangerous journeys to reach freedom as well as residents in Chicago and across northeastern Illinois who made a deliberate choice to break the law to help. Onward to Chicago charts the evolution of the northeastern Illinois freedom network and shows how, despite its small Black community, Chicago emerged as a point of refuge. The 1848 completion of the I & M Canal and later the Chicago to Detroit train system created more opportunities for Black men, women, and children to escape slavery. From eluding authorities to confronting kidnapping bands working out of St. Louis and southern Illinois, these stories of valor are inherently personal. Through deep research into local sources, McClellan presents the engrossing, entwined journeys of freedom seekers and the activists in Chicagoland who supported them. McClellan includes specific freedom seeker journey stories and introduces Black and white activists who provided aid in a range of communities along particular routes. This narrative highlights how significant biracial collaboration led to friendships as Black and white abolitionists worked together to provide support for freedom seekers traveling through the area and ultimately to combat slavery in the United States.

Black Chicago's First Century

Author : Christopher Robert Reed
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826264603
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

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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.

Popular Culture and the Enduring Myth of Chicago, 1871-1968

Author : Lisa Krissoff Boehm
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135932565
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Popular Culture and the Enduring Myth of Chicago, 1871-1968 written by Lisa Krissoff Boehm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-09-28 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an examination of the image of Chicago in American popular culture between the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and Chicago's 1968 Democratic National Convention.

A Mile Square of Chicago

Author : Marjorie Warvelle Bear
Publisher : TIPRAC
ISBN 13 : 9780963399540
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book A Mile Square of Chicago written by Marjorie Warvelle Bear and published by TIPRAC. This book was released on 2007 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Creating Chicago's North Shore

Author : Michael H. Ebner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226182056
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Creating Chicago's North Shore written by Michael H. Ebner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Graceland Cemetery

Author : Adam Selzer
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252053427
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Graceland Cemetery written by Adam Selzer and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Chicago’s landmark attractions, Graceland Cemetery chronicles the city’s sprawling history through the stories of its people. Local historian and Graceland tour guide Adam Selzer presents ten walking tours covering almost the entirety of the cemetery grounds. While nodding to famous Graceland figures from Marshall Field to Ernie Banks to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Selzer also leads readers past the vaults, obelisks, and other markers that call attention to less recognized Chicagoans like: Jessie Williams de Priest, the Black wife of a congressman whose 1929 invitation to a White House tea party set off a storm of controversy; Engineer and architect Fazlur Khan, the Bangladeshi American who revived the city's skyscraper culture; The still-mysterious Kate Warn (listed as Warn on her tombstone), the United States’ first female private detective. Filled with photographs and including detailed maps of each tour route, Graceland Cemetery is an insider's guide to one of Chicago's great outdoor destinations for city lore and history.

Chicago's Historic Hyde Park

Author : Susan O'Connor Davis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226138143
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Chicago's Historic Hyde Park written by Susan O'Connor Davis and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-459) and index.

City of the Century

Author : Donald L. Miller
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 0795339852
Total Pages : 1084 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book City of the Century written by Donald L. Miller and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2014-04-09 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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

Families Against the City

Author : Richard Sennett
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674292260
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (922 download)

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Download or read book Families Against the City written by Richard Sennett and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining what the 'Chicago Tribune' calls 'all the resources of modern scholarship and an impressive intelligence of his own Mr. Stennett analyzes how middle class families lived and worked in Chicago a century ago.

The Gambler King of Clark Street

Author : Richard Lindberg
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809328932
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book The Gambler King of Clark Street written by Richard Lindberg and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2009-06-12 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gambler King of Clark Street: Michael C. McDonald and the Rise of Chicago’s Democratic Machine tells the story of a larger-than-life figure who fused Chicago’s criminal underworld with the city’s political and commercial spheres to create an urban machine built on graft, bribery, and intimidation. In this first ever biography of McDonald, author Richard C. Lindberg vividly paints the life of the Democratic kingmaker against the wider backdrop of nineteenth-century Chicago crime and politics. Twenty-five years before Al Capone’s birth, Michael McDonald was building the foundations of the modern Chicago Democratic machine. By marshaling control of and suborning a complex web of precinct workers, ward and county bosses, justices of the peace, police captains, contractors, suppliers, and spoils-men, the undisputed master of the gambling syndicates could elect mayoral candidates, finagle key appointments for political operatives willing to carry out his mandates, and coerce law enforcement and the judiciary. The resulting machine was dedicated to the supremacy of the city’s gambling, vice, and liquor rackets during the waning years of the Gilded Age. McDonald was warmly welcomed into the White House by two sitting presidents who recognized him for what he was: the reigning “boss” of Chicago. In a colorful and often riotous life, McDonald seemed to control everything around him—everything that is, except events in his personal life. His first wife, the fiery Mary Noonan McDonald, ran off with a Catholic priest. The second, Dora Feldman, twenty-five years his junior, murdered her teenaged lover in a sensational 1907 scandal that broke Mike’s heart and drove him to an early grave. Michael McDonald’s name has long been cited in the published work of city historians, members of academia, and the press as the principal architect of a unified criminal enterprise that reached into the corridors of power in Chicago, Cook County, the state of Illinois, and all the way to the Oval Office. The Gambler King of Clark Street is both a major addition to Chicago’s historical literature and a revealing biography of a powerful and troubled man.

Building the South Side

Author : Robin F. Bachin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022677211X
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Building the South Side written by Robin F. Bachin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-05-06 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building the South Side explores the struggle for influence that dominated the planning and development of Chicago's South Side during the Progressive Era. Robin F. Bachin examines the early days of the University of Chicago, Chicago’s public parks, Comiskey Park, and the Black Belt to consider how community leaders looked to the physical design of the city to shape its culture and promote civic interaction. Bachin highlights how the creation of a local terrain of civic culture was a contested process, with the battle for cultural authority transforming urban politics and blurring the line between private and public space. In the process, universities, parks and playgrounds, and commercial entertainment districts emerged as alternative arenas of civic engagement. “Bachin incisively charts the development of key urban institutions and landscapes that helped constitute the messy vitality of Chicago’s late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century public realm.”—Daniel Bluestone, Journal of American History "This is an ambitious book filled with important insights about issues of public space and its use by urban residents. . . . It is thoughtful, very well written, and should be read and appreciated by anyone interested in Chicago or cities generally. It is also a gentle reminder that people are as important as structures and spaces in trying to understand urban development." —Maureen A. Flanagan, American Historical Review

The National Provisioner

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The National Provisioner written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Henry Demarest Lloyd and the Empire of Reform

Author : Chester McArthur Destler
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512815527
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Henry Demarest Lloyd and the Empire of Reform written by Chester McArthur Destler and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

The International Harvester Company

Author : Chaim M. Rosenberg
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476677093
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The International Harvester Company written by Chaim M. Rosenberg and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-05-13 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient farmers used draft animals for plowing but the heavy work of harvesting fell to the humans, using sickle and scythe. Change came in the mid-19th century when Cyrus Hall McCormick built the mechanical harvester. Though the McCormicks used their wealth to establish art collections and universities, battle disease, and develop birth control, members of the family faced constant scrutiny and scandal. This book recounts their story as well as the history of the International Harvester Company (IHC)--a merger of the McCormick and Deering companies and the world's leader in agricultural machinery in the 1900s.

Crosby's Opera House

Author : Eugene H. Cropsey
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838638224
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Crosby's Opera House written by Eugene H. Cropsey and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is also the story of Albert and Uranus Crosby, who migrated from Cape Cod to Chicago where, as successful entrepreneurs, they made their fortunes and later sacrificed it all in their efforts to bring a new musical and artistic enlightenment to their adpoted city.