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Chicago's Gold Coast

Author : Wilbert Jones
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0738591777
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book Chicago's Gold Coast written by Wilbert Jones and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was once described as an undesirable swampland has been transformed into one of the most beautiful and wealthiest neighborhoods in America. Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood, developed in the late 1800s, was first called the Astor Street District. It was named after one of the first multimillionaires in the United States, John Jacob Astor--even though Astor never lived in Chicago. In 1885, Astor Street District's first mansion was built. Potter Palmer, a dry goods merchant and owner of the Palmer House Hotel, built his palatial, castle-like residence on the corner of Lake Shore Drive and Banks Street; inside the Palmer mansion were 42 lavishly furnished rooms, which required 26 servants to maintain. Many wealthy Chicagoans followed Palmer's lead and built mansions in the neighborhood. Several homes took up an entire city block and, as time progressed, the name Gold Coast was adopted. On January 30, 1978, the entire Gold Coast district was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Join authors Wilbert Jones, Maureen V. O'Brien, and Kathleen Willis Morton, longtime residents of the Gold Coast, on an engrossing journey through the neighborhood's history. Includes archival images along with the more contemporary images of photographer Bob Dowey.

The Gold Coast and the Slum

Author : Harvey Warren Zorbaugh
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226989453
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book The Gold Coast and the Slum written by Harvey Warren Zorbaugh and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1983-07-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a book about Chicago. It is also, and for that very reason, a book about every other American city which has lived long enough and grown large enough to experience the transformation of neighborhoods and the contact of cultures and the tension between different types of individual and community behavior. . . . Here is a type of sociological investigation which is equally marked by human interest and scientific method."—Christian Century

Chicago's Gold Coast

Author : Wilbert Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781467123839
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book Chicago's Gold Coast written by Wilbert Jones and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was once described as an undesirable swampland has been transformed into one of the most beautiful and wealthiest neighborhoods in America. Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood, developed in the late 1800s, was first called the Astor Street District. It was named after one of the first multimillionaires in the United States, John Jacob Astor--even though Astor never lived in Chicago. In 1885, Astor Street District's first mansion was built. Potter Palmer, a dry goods merchant and owner of the Palmer House Hotel, built his palatial, castle-like residence on the corner of Lake Shore Drive and Banks Street; inside the Palmer mansion were 42 lavishly furnished rooms, which required 26 servants to maintain. Many wealthy Chicagoans followed Palmer's lead and built mansions in the neighborhood. Several homes took up an entire city block and, as time progressed, the name Gold Coast was adopted. On January 30, 1978, the entire Gold Coast district was listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Chicago

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782765830023
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Chicago written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gold Coast Madam

Author : Rose Laws
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781893121775
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Gold Coast Madam written by Rose Laws and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago, 1988. I was 52 years old, 5'4" tall, and 130 pounds, with red hair and a 36DDD bust, enjoying dramatic Lake Michigan and skyline views from my 21st-floor apartment in the landmark Lake Point Towers building. I had never felt more alive. I was Chicago's reigning madam, providing $400 an hour call girls to Chicago's business owners, traders, lawyers, judges, politicians, mobsters, pro athletes, and Hollywood stars at addresses all over Chicago's downtown and Gold Coast. Vice was on their way up--the doorman had tipped me off. I started thinking back on my life, where I came from, and how I ever got to where I was now. I began life the youngest of nine on a primitive farm in the backwoods of Tennessee. Seeking to make my own way in the world I would meet and marry a man from Cicero, Illinois. Soon I was pregnant eight times in eight years, malnourished, and beaten--once nearly to death. That’s when I left. When I recovered and returned for my five kids, I discovered they'd been put in a brutal orphanage. It took me years to get them back. God knows why I got into this business. It was to save my kids. But I chose to stay. I enjoyed it, I was good at it, and I’d still do it today if I could... From my earliest days as a hanky-panky entrepreneur in the 1960s--renting rooms by the hour at the Addison Motel--others took notice. Playboy, Penthouse, the Sybaris. My adventures took me to all over the Western Suburbs, to Atlanta, Savannah, and the Oak Brook Polo Fields, and eventually to the nightclubs, bars, yachts, and penthouses of Chicago’s Gold Coast. I’d work in this business until 2002 when the FBI busted me and I served 17 months in federal prison. Now I’m retired, living in Florida, and spending my days like many seniors here, walking, playing with my grandchildren, going to church. Let me take you back to my days of juggling three sugar daddies, living and breathing sex, providing the city’s elite with beautiful women, having loads of cash and tons of fun, and experiencing the joys and heartaches of a life on the edge, lived to its fullest.

King of the Gold Coast

Author : Wayne Klatt
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614231796
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book King of the Gold Coast written by Wayne Klatt and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago's breathtaking Lake Shore Drive, with its beaches and luxury homes, has its origin in a neglected marsh and a clandestine land development. Meet the uncrowned king of the disputed shore, George Wellington Streeter, the outlandish swindler, unlikely hero and self-proclaimed founder of the Gold Coast who tried to secede from the state of Illinois. Opposing him was the quiet vision of Potter Palmer and the full weight of his investment syndicate. With this keen piece of investigative history, Wayne Klatt uncovers the secrets that both sides of the conflict managed to keep in spite of lawsuits, state inquiries, a presidential forgery and two murder trials.

The Battle of Lincoln Park

Author : Daniel Kay Hertz
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1948742101
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (487 download)

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Download or read book The Battle of Lincoln Park written by Daniel Kay Hertz and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A brief, cogent analysis of gentrification in Chicago ... an incisive and useful narrative on the puzzle of urban development."-- Kirkus Reviews In the years after World War II, a movement began to bring the m

The Gold Coast and the Slum

Author : Harvey Warren Zorbaugh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (317 download)

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Download or read book The Gold Coast and the Slum written by Harvey Warren Zorbaugh and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Coast of Chicago

Author : Stuart Dybek
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466806370
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Coast of Chicago written by Stuart Dybek and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2004-04-03 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stolid landscape of Chicago suddenly turns dreamlike and otherworldly in Stuart Dybek's classic story collection. A child's collection of bottle caps becomes the tombstones of a graveyard. A lowly rightfielder's inexplicable death turns him into a martyr to baseball. Strains of Chopin floating down the tenement airshaft are transformed into a mysterious anthem of loss. Combining homely detail and heartbreakingly familiar voices with grand leaps of imagination, The Coast of Chicago is a masterpiece from one of America's most highly regarded writers.

The Jewel of the Gold Coast

Author : Sally Sexton Kalmbach
Publisher : Ampersand, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780981812663
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book The Jewel of the Gold Coast written by Sally Sexton Kalmbach and published by Ampersand, Incorporated. This book was released on 2009 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 50 historical photos, some of which are from the family's

The Gold Coast and the Slum

Author : Harvey Warren Zorbaugh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Gold Coast and the Slum written by Harvey Warren Zorbaugh and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Newberry Library

Author : Newberry Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Newberry Library written by Newberry Library and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gold Coast and the Slum

Author : Harvey Warren Zorbaugh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780781263191
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book Gold Coast and the Slum written by Harvey Warren Zorbaugh and published by . This book was released on 1991-09-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonded Leather binding

The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook

Author : Martha Bayne
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1948742500
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (487 download)

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Download or read book The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook written by Martha Bayne and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of Belt's Neighborhood Guidebook Series, The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook is an intimate exploration of the Windy City's history and identity. "Required reading"-- The Chicago Tribune Officially,

The Charnley House

Author : Elizabeth Collins Cromley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780226492742
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Charnley House written by Elizabeth Collins Cromley and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated in Chicago's famed Gold Coast, just north of the Magnificent Mile, the Charnley house is one of the finest dwellings in the city and considered worldwide to be a stunning example of avant-garde architecture. Now the headquarters of the Society of Architectural Historians and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1998, the house was built in 1892 at a critical moment in urban and architectural history. The Charnley House is the first authoritative publication on the building, which has long been discussed in surveys but never before examined in detail. In this collection of original essays, six well-known architectural historians illuminate various aspects of the house, both inside and out, as they consider its remarkable formal and spatial qualities, its historical significance in the development of Chicago's elite residential neighborhood, and its place in the context of American domestic architecture. Equally important, the contributors tackle the knotty, decades-old issue concerning the building's designer. While many have ascribed the scheme to Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan's chief assistant at the time, this book sheds new light on how the house relates significantly to the work of both master and apprentice. The continuing debate over the house's "authorship" highlights the importance of the Charnley house in the history of modern architecture as the seminal work of residential design in the United States. These thoroughly researched interpretations, supplemented by an abundance of never before published illustrations, analyze this house of distinction with the care and detail it deserves. Beautifully restored in late 1980s, the Charnley house now has a book worthy of it.

The Gardens of Chicago's Gold Coast

Author : Carol Truesdell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Gardens of Chicago's Gold Coast written by Carol Truesdell and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Great American City

Author : Robert J. Sampson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022683400X
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Great American City written by Robert J. Sampson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In his magisterial Great American City, Robert J. Sampson puts social scientific data behind an argument that we all feel and experience everyday: the neighborhood you live in has a big effect on your life and the city you live in. Not only does your neighborhood determine where your nearest hospital is, what kind of schools your children can attend, or how many police officers you might encounter (and how they respond to you), it affects how you feel, how you think about the world and your place in it. Like many sociologists before him, Sampson looks to Chicago to make his insightful interventions, based on extensive data collected across the city's diverse neighborhoods. This edition includes a new afterword by Sampson reflecting on changes in Chicago and the country that have occurred since the book was initially published. He notes the increase in gun violence, both among civilians and police killings of civilians, as well as steady or growing rates of segregation despite an increase in diversity. With these changes have come new research, much of it a continuation or elaboration of the work in Great American City. He updates readers on the status of the research initiative that serves as the basis of Great American City, the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN), and summarizes how scholars have taken up his work. Many of these scholars have new tools at their disposal with the rise of big data; Sampson remarks on these changes in the field"--