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Author : Ulrich Danckers
Publisher : Early Chicago Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780967582306
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (823 download)
Download or read book Early Chicago written by Ulrich Danckers and published by Early Chicago Incorporated. This book was released on 2000 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cathy Jean Maloney
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226502368
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Chicago Gardens written by Cathy Jean Maloney and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once maligned as a swampy outpost, the fledgling city of Chicago brazenly adopted the motto Urbs in Horto or City in a Garden, in 1837. Chicago Gardens shows how this upstart town earned its sobriquet over the next century, from the first vegetable plots at Fort Dearborn to innovative garden designs at the 1933 World’s Fair. Cathy Jean Maloney has spent decades researching the city’s horticultural heritage, and here she reveals the unusual history of Chicago’s first gardens. Challenged by the region’s clay soil, harsh winters, and fierce winds, Chicago’s pioneering horticulturalists, Maloney demonstrates, found imaginative uses for hardy prairie plants. This same creative spirit thrived in the city’s local fruit and vegetable markets, encouraging the growth of what would become the nation’s produce hub. The vast plains that surrounded Chicago, meanwhile, inspired early landscape architects, such as Frederick Law Olmsted, Jens Jensen, and O.C. Simonds, to new heights of grandeur. Maloney does not forget the backyard gardeners: immigrants who cultivated treasured seeds and pioneers who planted native wildflowers. Maloney’s vibrant depictions of Chicagoans like “Bouquet Mary,” a flower peddler who built a greenhouse empire, add charming anecdotal evidence to her argument–that Chicago’s garden history rivals that of New York or London and ensures its status as a world-class capital of horticultural innovation. With exquisite archival photographs, prints, and postcards, as well as field guide descriptions of living legacy gardens for today’s visitors, Chicago Gardens will delight green-thumbs from all parts of the world.
Author : Alfred Theodore Andreas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 922 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book History of Chicago written by Alfred Theodore Andreas and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bessie Louise Pierce
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226668398
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book A History of Chicago, Volume I written by Bessie Louise Pierce and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major history of Chicago ever written, A History of Chicago covers the city’s great history over two centuries, from 1673 to 1893. Originally conceived as a centennial history of Chicago, the project became, under the guidance of renowned historian Bessie Louise Pierce, a definitive, three-volume set describing the city’s growth—from its humble frontier beginnings to the horrors of the Great Fire, the construction of some of the world’s first skyscrapers, and the opulence of the 1893 World’s Fair. Pierce and her assistants spent over forty years transforming historical records into an inspiring human story of growth and survival. Rich with anecdotal evidence and interviews with the men and women who made Chicago great, all three volumes will now be available for the first time in years. A History of Chicago will be essential reading for anyone who wants to know this great city and its place in America. “With this rescue of its history from the bright, impressionable newspapermen and from the subscription-volumes, Chicago builds another impressive memorial to its coming of age, the closing of its first ‘century of progress.’”—E. D. Branch, New York Times (1937)
Author : Benjamin Sells
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810143917
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
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.
Author : Edward Gay Mason
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781104050672
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Early Chicago and Illinois (1890) written by Edward Gay Mason and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : William Bross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (64 download)
Download or read book History of Chicago written by William Bross and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward G 1839-1898 Mason
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020771972
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (719 download)
Download or read book Early Chicago and Illinois written by Edward G 1839-1898 Mason and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed look into the early history of Chicago and Illinois, covering topics such as the fur trade, Native American relations, and the growth of the city in the 19th century. Drawing on primary sources and historical records, Mason paints a vivid picture of the region's formative years, providing a valuable resource for historians and history enthusiasts alike. 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. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : James R. Grossman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780226310152
Total Pages : 1117 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Chicago written by James R. Grossman and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive historical reference on metropolitan Chicago encompasses more than 1,400 entries on such topics as neighborhoods, ethnic groups, cultural institutions, and business history, and furnishes interpretive essays on the literary images of Chicago, the built environment, and the city's sports culture.
Author : Julius Ferdinand Feiring
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Some Phases of Chicago's Early Development, 1832-1852 written by Julius Ferdinand Feiring and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edwin Oscar 1832-1916 Gale
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781363864393
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (643 download)
Download or read book REMINISCENCES OF EARLY CHICAGO written by Edwin Oscar 1832-1916 Gale and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John W. Boyer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226835316
Total Pages : 785 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book The University of Chicago written by John W. Boyer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024-09-06 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expanded narrative of the rich, unique history of the University of Chicago. One of the most influential institutions of higher learning in the world, the University of Chicago has a powerful and distinct identity, and its name is synonymous with intellectual rigor. With nearly 170,000 alumni living and working in more than one hundred and fifty countries, its impact is far-reaching and long-lasting. With The University of Chicago: A History, John W. Boyer, Dean of the College from 1992 to 2023, thoroughly engages with the history and the lived politics of the university. Boyer presents a history of a complex academic community, focusing on the nature of its academic culture and curricula, the experience of its students, its engagement with Chicago’s civic community, and the resources and conditions that have enabled the university to sustain itself through decades of change. He has mined the archives, exploring the school’s complex and sometimes controversial past to set myth and hearsay apart from fact. Boyer’s extensive research shows that the University of Chicago’s identity is profoundly interwoven with its history, and that history is unique in the annals of American higher education. After a little-known false start in the mid-nineteenth century, it achieved remarkable early successes, yet in the 1950s it faced a collapse of undergraduate enrollment, which proved fiscally debilitating for decades. Throughout, the university retained its fierce commitment to a distinctive, intense academic culture marked by intellectual merit and free debate, allowing it to rise to international acclaim. Today it maintains a strong obligation to serve the larger community through its connections to alumni, to the city of Chicago, and increasingly to its global community. Boyer’s tale is filled with larger-than-life characters—John D. Rockefeller, Robert Maynard Hutchins, and many other famous figures among them—and episodes that reveal the establishment and rise of today’s institution. Newly updated, this edition extends through the presidency of Robert Zimmer, whose long tenure was marked by significant developments and controversies over subjects as varied as free speech, medical inequity, and community relations.
Author : Josiah Seymour Currey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Chicago written by Josiah Seymour Currey and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maggie Taft
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022616831X
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Art in Chicago written by Maggie Taft and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades now, the story of art in America has been dominated by New York. It gets the majority of attention, the stories of its schools and movements and masterpieces the stuff of pop culture legend. Chicago, on the other hand . . . well, people here just get on with the work of making art. Now that art is getting its due. Art in Chicago is a magisterial account of the long history of Chicago art, from the rupture of the Great Fire in 1871 to the present, Manierre Dawson, László Moholy-Nagy, and Ivan Albright to Chris Ware, Anne Wilson, and Theaster Gates. The first single-volume history of art and artists in Chicago, the book—in recognition of the complexity of the story it tells—doesn’t follow a single continuous trajectory. Rather, it presents an overlapping sequence of interrelated narratives that together tell a full and nuanced, yet wholly accessible history of visual art in the city. From the temptingly blank canvas left by the Fire, we loop back to the 1830s and on up through the 1860s, tracing the beginnings of the city’s institutional and professional art world and community. From there, we travel in chronological order through the decades to the present. Familiar developments—such as the founding of the Art Institute, the Armory Show, and the arrival of the Bauhaus—are given a fresh look, while less well-known aspects of the story, like the contributions of African American artists dating back to the 1860s or the long history of activist art, finally get suitable recognition. The six chapters, each written by an expert in the period, brilliantly mix narrative and image, weaving in oral histories from artists and critics reflecting on their work in the city, and setting new movements and key works in historical context. The final chapter, comprised of interviews and conversations with contemporary artists, brings the story up to the present, offering a look at the vibrant art being created in the city now and addressing ongoing debates about what it means to identify as—or resist identifying as—a Chicago artist today. The result is an unprecedentedly inclusive and rich tapestry, one that reveals Chicago art in all its variety and vigor—and one that will surprise and enlighten even the most dedicated fan of the city’s artistic heritage. Part of the Terra Foundation for American Art’s year-long Art Design Chicago initiative, which will bring major arts events to venues throughout Chicago in 2018, Art in Chicago is a landmark publication, a book that will be the standard account of Chicago art for decades to come. No art fan—regardless of their city—will want to miss it.
Author : Calumet Club
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781290779876
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (798 download)
Download or read book Early Chicago written by Calumet Club and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Alfred Theodore Andreas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of Chicago written by Alfred Theodore Andreas and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E O G
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781021198686
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (986 download)
Download or read book Reminiscences of Early Chicago and Vicinity written by E O G and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a fascinating memoir of early Chicago, as seen through the eyes of Edwin O. Gale. The book paints a vivid picture of life in Chicago during the mid-to-late nineteenth century, and provides a valuable glimpse into the city's history and culture. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of Chicago or urban history more broadly. 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. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
