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Author : Alfred Theodore Andreas
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Total Pages : 698 pages
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Download or read book History of Chicago: Ending with the year 1857 written by Alfred Theodore Andreas and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred Theodore Andreas
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ISBN 13 : 9781021264435
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Book Rating : 4.2/5 (644 download)
Download or read book History Of Chicago: Ending With The Year 1857 written by Alfred Theodore Andreas and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred Theodore Andreas
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Download or read book Ending with the year 1857 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 : Alfred Theodore Andreas
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Total Pages : 694 pages
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Download or read book History of Chicago written by Alfred Theodore Andreas and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Caxton Club
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022646850X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
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.
Author : Robert L. McCaul
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809380536
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Black Struggle for Public Schooling in Nineteenth-Century Illinois written by Robert L. McCaul and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the pre-Civil War and Civil War periods the Illinois black code deprived blacks of suffrage and court rights, and the Illinois Free Schools Act kept most black children out of public schooling. But, as McCaul documents, they did not sit idly by. They applied the concepts of “bargaining power” (rewarding, punishing, and dialectical) and the American ideal of “community” to participate in winning two major victories during this era. By the use of dialectical power, exerted mainly via John Jones’ tract, The Black Laws of Illinois, they helped secure the repeal of the state’s black code; by means of punishing power, mainly through boycotts and ‘‘invasions,’’ they exerted pressures that brought a cancellation of the Chicago public school policy of racial segregation. McCaul makes clear that the blacks’ struggle for school rights is but one of a number of such struggles waged by disadvantaged groups (women, senior citizens, ethnics, and immigrants). He postulates a “stage’’ pattern for the history of the black struggle—a pattern of efforts by federal and state courts to change laws and constitutions, followed by efforts to entice, force, or persuade local authorities to comply with the laws and constitutional articles and with the decrees of the courts.
Author : Alfred Theodore Andreas
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Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Ending with the year 1857 written by Alfred Theodore Andreas and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ryan W. Keating
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823276619
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)
Download or read book Shades of Green written by Ryan W. Keating and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An exceptional book that should make an immediately positive impact on the study of Irish Americans in the Civil War.” —The Journal of Southern History Drawing on records of about 5,500 soldiers and veterans, Shades of Green traces the organization of Irish regiments from the perspective of local communities in Connecticut, Illinois, and Wisconsin and the relationships between soldiers and the home front. Research on the impact of the Civil War on Irish Americans has traditionally fallen into one of two tracks, arguing that the Civil War either further alienated Irish immigrants from American society or that military service in defense of the Union offered these men a means of assimilation. In this study of Irish American service, Ryan W. Keating argues that neither paradigm really holds, because many Irish Americans during this time already considered themselves to be assimilated members of American society. This comprehensive study argues that the local community was often more important to ethnic soldiers than the imagined ethnic community, especially in terms of political, social, and economic relationships. An analysis of the Civil War era from this perspective provides a much clearer understanding of immigrant place and identity during the nineteenth century. The author focuses on three regiments not traditionally studied—rather than those of New York City and Boston—and supports his argument through advanced quantitative analysis of military service records and a wealth of raw data, an unusual and exciting development in Civil War studies. Shades of Green’s impressive research provides a significant contribution to scholarship sure to bring something valuable to several fields of study.
Author : Alfred Theodore Andreas
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Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)
Download or read book History of Cook County, Illinois written by Alfred Theodore Andreas and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 956 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)
Download or read book The American Catalogue written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dominic A. Pacyga
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022612309X
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Slaughterhouse written by Dominic A. Pacyga and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the South Side to tour the Union Stock Yard, people got a firsthand look at Chicago's industrial prowess as they witnessed cattle, hogs, and sheep disassembled with breathtaking efficiency. At their height, the kill floors employed 50,000 workers and processed six hundred animals an hour, an astonishing spectacle of industrialized death. Pacyga chronicles the rise and fall of an industrial district that, for better or worse, served as the public face of Chicago for decades. He takes readers through the packinghouses as only an insider can, covering the rough and toxic life inside the plants and their lasting effects on the world outside. He shows how the yards shaped the surrounding neighborhoods; looks at the Yard's sometimes volatile role in the city's race and labor relations; and traces its decades of mechanized innovations.
Author : Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
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Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Bulletin ... written by Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.) and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chaim M. Rosenberg
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476677093
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
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.
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Total Pages : 572 pages
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Download or read book Annual Bulletin ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Floyd Sullivan
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786475927
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Old Comiskey Park written by Floyd Sullivan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-06-20 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These new essays and memories cover the history and evolution of the former home of the Chicago White Sox, as well as its importance to its surrounding neighborhoods, and to the city of Chicago. The essays cover Charles Comiskey and the location of the ballpark; the neighborhoods that surround the site; the dimensions and configurations of Old Comiskey Park; a summary of All-Star, World Series, and playoff games played there; Negro League baseball at Comiskey Park; Bill Veeck; the ballpark as host to events and sports other than White Sox baseball; and an analysis of the evolution of the famous "exploding scoreboard," the original model for today's modern sports stadium boards. Former players, White Sox personnel and fans contributed memories, including substantial pieces by Roland Hemond and Nancy Faust.
Author : Marc O. Rosier
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490726527
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Chicago’S Authentic Founder written by Marc O. Rosier and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicagos Authentic Founder traces the life and time of Jean Baptiste Point DuSable from Haiti through Louisiana, Peoria, Chicago, and Saint-Charles, Missouri, where he died in 1818. It examines important historical events such as the foundation of Chicago, George Rogers Clarks conquest of the French villages in Illinois, and DuSables arrest and appointment as manager of the Pinery in Michigan. The extent of DuSables Chicago business or trading post is treated in full. DuSables life in Saint-Charles is recounted in light of various court documents. His relationship to and leadership of the Pottawatomi tribe is explored and analyzed in ways that correct many of the inaccuracies found in the accounts publicized by the Kinsies and their allies. This volume contains many photos depicting DuSables grave site, former places of residence, artistic representation, the cabin along the Chicago River, etc. DuSables place of originSaint-Domingue, todays Haitias represented by Juliette Kinsies Wau-Bun, is fully explored. The aggression of the European colonial powers and of the United States against Haiti after the successful Haitian Revolution and subsequent Haitian sponsorship of abolitionist and revolutionary activities is explored at length to show the reader possible motivation for associating DuSable with Haiti. Though widely admired by Native Americans and the older class of settlers in the contested territories of Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan, new American settlers, who arrived in Chicago after the building of Fort Dearborn, sought to discredit DuSable and to erroneously proclaim John Kinzie Chicagos founder.
Author : Patrick T. Reardon
Publisher : Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN 13 : 0809338106
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Loop written by Patrick T. Reardon and published by Southern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The structure that anchors Chicago Every day Chicagoans rely on the loop of elevated train tracks to get to their jobs, classrooms, or homes in the city’s downtown. But how much do they know about the single most important structure in the history of the Windy City? In engagingly brisk prose, Patrick T. Reardon unfolds the fascinating story about how Chicago’s elevated Loop was built, gave its name to the downtown, helped unify the city, saved the city’s economy, and was itself saved from destruction in the 1970s. This unique volume combines urban history, biography, engineering, architecture, transportation, culture, and politics to explore the elevated Loop’s impact on the city’s development and economy and on the way Chicagoans see themselves. The Loop rooted Chicago’s downtown in a way unknown in other cities, and it protected that area—and the city itself—from the full effects of suburbanization during the second half of the twentieth century. Masses of data underlie new insights into what has made Chicago’s downtown, and the city as a whole, tick. The Loop features a cast of colorful Chicagoans, such as legendary lawyer Clarence Darrow, poet Edgar Lee Masters, mayor Richard J. Daley, and the notorious Gray Wolves of the Chicago City Council. Charles T. Yerkes, an often-demonized figure, is shown as a visionary urban planner, and engineer John Alexander Low Waddell, a world-renowned bridge creator, is introduced to Chicagoans as the designer of their urban railway. This fascinating exploration of how one human-built structure reshaped the social and economic landscape of Chicago is the definitive book on Chicago’s elevated Loop.
