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The Mayors Of The City Of Chicago From March 4 1837 To April 13 1933
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Book Synopsis The Mayors of the City of Chicago from March 4, 1837 to April 13, 1933 by : Municipal Reference Library (Chicago, Ill.)
Download or read book The Mayors of the City of Chicago from March 4, 1837 to April 13, 1933 written by Municipal Reference Library (Chicago, Ill.) and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Mayors of the City of Chicago from March 4, 1837 to April 13, 1933 by :
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Book Synopsis Second Metropolis by : Blair A. Ruble
Download or read book Second Metropolis written by Blair A. Ruble and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-28 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how social fragmentation led to pluralistic public policies in Chicago, Moscow, and Osaka.
Book Synopsis City of the Century by : Donald L. Miller
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
Book Synopsis Grafters and Goo Goos by : James L. Merriner
Download or read book Grafters and Goo Goos written by James L. Merriner and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2008-07-21 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago’s reputation for corruption is the basis of local and national folklore and humor. Grafters and Goo Goos: Corruption and Reform in Chicago, 1833–2003 unfolds the city’s notorious history of corruption and the countervailing reform struggles that largely failed to clean it up. More than a regional history of crime in politics, this wide-ranging account of governmental malfeasances traces ongoing public corruption and reform to its nineteenth-century democratic roots. Former Chicago journalist James L. Merriner reveals the battles between corrupt politicos and ardent reformers to be expressions of conflicting class, ethnic, and religious values. From Chicago’s earliest years in the 1830s, the city welcomed dollar-chasing businessmen and politicians, swiftly followed by reformers who strived to clean up the attendant corruption. Reformers in Chicago were called “goo goos,” a derisive epithet short for “good-government types.” Grafters and Goo Goos contends a certain synergy defined the relationship between corruption and reform. Politicians and reformers often behaved similarly, their separate ambitions merging into a conjoined politics of interdependency wherein the line between heroes and villains grew increasingly faint. The real story, asserts Merriner, has less to do with right against wrong than it does with the ways the cultural backgrounds of politicians and reformers steered their own agendas, animating and defining each other by their opposition. Drawing on original and archival research, Merriner identifies constants in the struggle between corruption and reform amid a welter of changing social circumstances and customs—decades of alternating war and peace, hardships and prosperity. Three areas of reform and resistance are identified: structural reform of the political system to promote honesty and efficiency, social reform to provide justice to the lower classes, and moral reform to combat vice. “In the matter of corruption and reform, the constants might be stronger than the variables,” writes Merriner in the Preface. “The players, rules, and scorekeepers change, but not the essential game.” Complemented by eighteen illustrations, Grafters and Goo Goos is rife with shocking and amusing anecdotes and peppered with the personalities of famous muckrakers, bootleggers, mayors, and mobsters. While other studies have profiled infamous Chicago corruption cases and figures such as Al Capone and Richard J. Daley, this is the first to provide an overview appropriate for historians and general readers alike. In examining Chicago’s notorious saga of corruption and reform against a backdrop of social history, Merriner calls attention to our constant problems of both civic and national corruption and contributes to larger discussions about the American experiment of democratic self-government.
Book Synopsis Political History of Chicago by : M. L. Ahern
Download or read book Political History of Chicago written by M. L. Ahern and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book City of Scoundrels written by Gary Krist and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The masterfully told story of twelve volatile days in Chicago, when an aviation disaster, a race riot, a crippling transit strike, and a sensational child murder transfixed and roiled a city already on the brink of collapse. When 1919 began, the city of Chicago seemed on the verge of transformation. Modernizers had an audacious, expensive plan to turn the city from a brawling, unglamorous place into "the Metropolis of the World." But just as the dream seemed within reach, pandemonium broke loose and the city's highest ambitions were suddenly under attack by the same unbridled energies that had given birth to them. It began on a balmy Monday afternoon when a blimp in flames crashed through the roof of a busy downtown bank, incinerating those inside. Within days, a racial incident at a crowded South Side beach spiraled into one of the worst urban riots in American history, followed by a transit strike that paralyzed the city. Then, when it seemed as if things could get no worse, police searching for a six-year-old girl discovered her body in a dark North Side basement. Meticulously researched and expertly paced, City of Scoundrels captures the tumultuous birth of the modern American city, with all of its light and dark aspects in vivid relief. Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader’s guide and bonus content
Book Synopsis Hegel's Philosophy of Reality, Freedom, and God by : Robert M. Wallace
Download or read book Hegel's Philosophy of Reality, Freedom, and God written by Robert M. Wallace and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-04 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showing the relevance of Hegel's arguments, this book discusses both original texts and their interpretations.
Book Synopsis An Act to Incorporate the City of Chicago by : Chicago Illinois
Download or read book An Act to Incorporate the City of Chicago written by Chicago Illinois and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Act to Incorporate the City of Chicago: Passed March 4, 1837 Ele°fi°n sect. 5. An election shall be held in each of the wards of said city, on the first Tuesday 1n March in each year, after the year eighteen hundred and thirty' seven, at such place as the common council of said city may appoint, and of which six days previous public notice shall be given in writing. In three public places in each ward by the inspectors thereof. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints by : Library of Congress
Download or read book The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis United States Local Histories in the Library of Congress: Middle West, Alaska, Hawaii by : Library of Congress
Download or read book United States Local Histories in the Library of Congress: Middle West, Alaska, Hawaii written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 1332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971 by : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual Report of the Comptroller of the City of Chicago, Illinois by : Chicago (Ill.). Comptroller's Office
Download or read book Annual Report of the Comptroller of the City of Chicago, Illinois written by Chicago (Ill.). Comptroller's Office and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Municipal Reference Library Notes by :
Download or read book Municipal Reference Library Notes written by and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Notes - Municipal Reference and Research Center written by and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual Report of the Comptroller of the City of Chicago by : Chicago (Ill.). Comptroller's Office
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Book Synopsis Report of the Comptroller of the City of Chicago by : Chicago (Ill.). Comptroller's Office
Download or read book Report of the Comptroller of the City of Chicago written by Chicago (Ill.). Comptroller's Office and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
