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Chicagoland Stories

Author : Steven W. Smidesang
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1647017084
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Chicagoland Stories written by Steven W. Smidesang and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this standalone tale, Chicagoland Stories is drawn into the life of Boone Jackson, owner of a fledgling chemical company. While planting garlic cloves in his backyard, Jackson discovers a smooth round object about the size of a propane tank, the nature of which is not apparent.Then it introduces itself--an artificial intelligence hosted on a quantum computer.The device easily compromises world information systems, claiming its purpose is to benefit society, but it refuses to disclose its origin. Jackson and his friends personally benefit from the machine and are asked to give their input on how to bring positive changes to the world.Meanwhile, a mysterious entity known only as "Verstand" assembles a crew of mercenaries and provides them with information, technology, and advanced chemical formulas. Their mission is to bring a powerful organization to its knees.The world's future is at stake, but what is the ultimate goal of the Backyard Brain?

Stories of Chicagoland

Author : William Harding Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Stories of Chicagoland written by William Harding Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chicago Stories

Author : John Miller
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811839747
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book Chicago Stories written by John Miller and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hometown and host to talents as diverse as Richard Wright, David Mamet, Maya Angelou, Saul Bellow, and Mike Royko, Chicago boasts a rich tradition of writers who have helped shape our sense of the city even as the city informs their best work. It's "a writer's town...a fighter's town," according to Nelson Algren, and this anthology proves it. With a striking new cover, Chicago Stories collects the most evocative writing on the city, its gritty realism, and indomitable spirit.

Iranians in Chicagoland

Author : Hamid Akbari
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738533902
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (339 download)

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Download or read book Iranians in Chicagoland written by Hamid Akbari and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial history of Iranians in Chicago offers a collection of Persian Palace photographs from Iran's exhibit at the World Columbian Exposition in 1893, along with an Iranian Moen-Ol Saltaneh's observations of 1893 Chicago.

Chicagoland Tales

Author : Ruth McKenna Mayer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258503215
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Chicagoland Tales written by Ruth McKenna Mayer and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Coast of Chicago

Author : Stuart Dybek
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312424256
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book The Coast of Chicago written by Stuart Dybek and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-04-03 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current date of publication from iPage.IngramContent.com.

Chicagoland

Author : Ann Durkin Keating
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226428826
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Chicagoland written by Ann Durkin Keating and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-11-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers the collective history of 230 neighborhoods and communities which formed the bustling network of greater Chicagoland--many connected to the city by the railroad. Profiles the people who built these neighborhoods, and the structures they left behind that still stand today.

From Side Streets and Boulevards

Author : Ella L. Randall McDougall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Side Streets and Boulevards written by Ella L. Randall McDougall and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chicagoland

Author : D.K. Olson
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Chicagoland written by D.K. Olson and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-04-13 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago is a name that everyone around the world has heard of--thanks to Al Capone! Doug's love for Chicagoland, and his desire to bring the same love for the "Windy City" and its suburbs to people presently living there or planning to reside there in the future, supersedes his own personal "shortcomings." For people who used to live there, the memories found in this book should be quite fulfilling. The "Chicago Ancestry" chapters, in particular, promise to be historical and informative.

Three Terrifying Tales from Chicago

Author : Adam Selzer
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0738737186
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Three Terrifying Tales from Chicago written by Adam Selzer and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2012-10-08 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Chicago paranormal authority Adam Selzer as he lifts the veil of myth around three of Chicago’s most terrifying ghost stories. Jane Addams’s Hull House became the center of a rumored Devil Baby—an infant born with horns, hooves, and claws . . . and a habit of using profane language to ministers. H. H. Holmes has gone down in history as America’s first—and possibly most prolific—serial killer. Popularized in bestselling book The Devil in the White City, Holmes built a three-story building down the street from the World’s Fair site in Chicago in the early 1890s to use as his killing castle. But how many people did he kill? Chicago’s Resurrection Mary is one of the oldest and most enduring vanishing hitchhiker stories. An expert on the Resurrection Mary stories, Selzer shares dozens of stories and anecdotes he’s collected and sifts through his personal database of facts surrounding Archer Avenue’s most famous apparition. This e-book includes an excerpt from Adam Selzer's popular book Your Neighborhood Gives Me the Creeps.

Arabs of Chicagoland

Author : Ray Hanania
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738534176
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Arabs of Chicagoland written by Ray Hanania and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the integral role played by both Christian and Muslim Arab Americans in the growth of Chicago.

Chicago by the Book

Author : Caxton Club
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022646850X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Chicago by the Book written by Caxton Club and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its rough-and-tumble image, Chicago has long been identified as a city where books take center stage. In fact, a volume by A. J. Liebling gave the Second City its nickname. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle arose from the midwestern capital’s most infamous industry. The great Chicago Fire led to the founding of the Chicago Public Library. The city has fostered writers such as Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Chicago’s literary magazines The Little Review and Poetry introduced the world to Eliot, Hemingway, Joyce, and Pound. The city’s robust commercial printing industry supported a flourishing culture of the book. With this beautifully produced collection, Chicago’s rich literary tradition finally gets its due. Chicago by the Book profiles 101 landmark publications about Chicago from the past 170 years that have helped define the city and its image. Each title—carefully selected by the Caxton Club, a venerable Chicago bibliophilic organization—is the focus of an illustrated essay by a leading scholar, writer, or bibliophile. Arranged chronologically to show the history of both the city and its books, the essays can be read in order from Mrs. John H. Kinzie’s 1844 Narrative of the Massacre of Chicago to Sara Paretsky’s 2015 crime novel Brush Back. Or one can dip in and out, savoring reflections on the arts, sports, crime, race relations, urban planning, politics, and even Mrs. O’Leary’s legendary cow. The selections do not shy from the underside of the city, recognizing that its grit and graft have as much a place in the written imagination as soaring odes and boosterism. As Neil Harris observes in his introduction, “Even when Chicagoans celebrate their hearth and home, they do so while acknowledging deep-seated flaws.” At the same time, this collection heartily reminds us all of what makes Chicago, as Norman Mailer called it, the “great American city.” With essays from, among others, Ira Berkow, Thomas Dyja, Ann Durkin Keating, Alex Kotlowitz, Toni Preckwinkle, Frank Rich, Don Share, Carl Smith, Regina Taylor, Garry Wills, and William Julius Wilson; and featuring works by Saul Bellow, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sandra Cisneros, Clarence Darrow, Erik Larson, David Mamet, Studs Terkel, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Frank Lloyd Wright, and many more.

Unknown Chicago Tales

Author : John R. Schmidt
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439672369
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Unknown Chicago Tales written by John R. Schmidt and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago's most famous stories tend to crowd out the competition and shout down alternate perspectives. Visit with the man who founded a 150-year-long Chicago political dynasty. Take a peek at some of the lesser-known Chicago film classics. Review Professor Moriarty's Chicago caper and Annie Oakley's cocaine case. Uncover the lengths to which Chicago's long-celebrated Mr. Pioneer Settler went to keep a slave. Discover why the Kennedy curves at Division Street and why the county jail saved a gallows for fifty years. From Death Valley Scotty's wild ride to the bowling ball that went around the world, John Schmidt provides a parade of Chicago originals.

Tales of Forgotten Chicago

Author : Richard C Lindberg
Publisher : Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN 13 : 0809337819
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Tales of Forgotten Chicago written by Richard C Lindberg and published by Southern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hidden gems from Chicago’s past Tales of Forgotten Chicago contains twenty-one fascinating, little-known stories about a great city and its people. Richard C. Lindberg has dug deeply to reveal lost historical events and hidden gems from Chicago’s past. Spanning the Civil War through the 1960s, the volume showcases forgotten crimes, punishments, and consequences: poisoned soup that nearly killed three hundred leading citizens, politicians, and business and religious leaders; a woman in showbiz and her street-thug husband whose checkered lives inspired a 1955 James Cagney movie; and the first police woman in Chicago, hired as a result of the senseless killing of a young factory girl in a racially tinged case of the 1880s. Also included are tales of industry and invention, such as America’s first automobile race, the haunting of a wealthy Gilded Age manufacturer’s mansion, and the identity of the telephone’s rightful inventor. Chapters on the history of early city landmarks spotlight the fight to save Lakefront Park and how “Lucky” Charlie Weeghman’s north side baseball park became Wrigley Field. Other chapters explore civic, cultural, and political happenings: the great Railroad Fairs of 1948 and 1949; Richard J. Daley’s revival of the St. Patrick’s Day parade; political disrupter Lar “America First” Daly; and the founding of the Special Olympics in Chicago by Anne Burke and others. Finally, some are just wonderful tales, such asa touching story about the sinking of Chicago's beloved Christmas tree ship. Engrossing and imaginative, this collection opens new windows into the past of the Windy City.

Lost Chicago Department Stores

Author : Leslie Goddard
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439674507
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Lost Chicago Department Stores written by Leslie Goddard and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within thirty years of the Great Chicago Fire, the revitalized city was boasting some of America's grandest department stores. The retail corridor on State Street was a crowded canyon of innovation and inventory where you could buy anything from a paper clip to an airplane. Revisit a time when a trip downtown meant dressing up for lunch at Marshall Field's Walnut Room, strolling the aisles of Sears for Craftsman tools or redeeming S&H Green Stamps at Wieboldt's. Whether your family favored The Fair, Carson Pirie Scott, Montgomery Ward or Goldblatt's, you were guaranteed stunning architectural design, attentive customer service and eye-popping holiday window displays. Lavishly illustrated with photographs, advertisements, catalogue images and postcards, Leslie Goddard's narrative brings to life the Windy City's fabulous retail past.

Italian-American Women of Chicagoland

Author : Italian-American Women's Club
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738520490
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Italian-American Women of Chicagoland written by Italian-American Women's Club and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is probably impossible to measure the far-reaching effect Italian-American women have had on community and culture. Italian women of yesterday have enriched modern life in Italy and America through their expertise in academics, arts, and humanitarian work. Today, their influence continues in an ever-increasing array of fields. Within the pages of Italian-American Women of Chicagoland, the lives of Italian-American women, past and present, come to life. Their stories have laid a foundation for generations to come. The story of Maria Agnesi is one of a child genius who changed the course of mathematics. Italian-born Frances Xavier Cabrini came to America and built health care facilities in Chicago and across the nation. She was later sainted by the Catholic Church for her work. The first woman in Italy to attend the University of Rome and receive a medical degree, Maria Montessori was prominent in finding a new way to educate children. Internationally, Montessori schools flourish to this day.

Haunted Chicago

Author : Tom Ogden
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 149301238X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Haunted Chicago written by Tom Ogden and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among this country's many treasures is the city of Chicago, an area filled with creativity and culture. Haunted Chicago, a collection of stories of ghosts, mysteries, and paranormal happenings in Chi-Town, will leave readers delightfully frightened.