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Book Synopsis The Story of Chicago (Classic Reprint) by : Joseph Kirkland
Download or read book The Story of Chicago (Classic Reprint) written by Joseph Kirkland and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of Chicago The best a historian can do is to approach accuracy before venturing upon publication; and, after publication, - to approach it more and more nearly; for to reach it is beyond his utmost scope. The degree in which he can do this latter is dependent on the trouble his readers may take in pointing out to him his errors of omission and commission. "A word to the wise is sufficient;" and these words are addressed to all who are interested enough to read, wise enough to criticise and friendly enough to correct, for the benefit of posterity, this "Story of Chicago." Through the kindness of friends, some valuable additions, emendations and corrections are possible in this Second Edition. It is hoped that others may be kindly furnished for future use. 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 Pit a Story of Chicago (Classic Reprint) by : Frank Norris
Download or read book The Pit a Story of Chicago (Classic Reprint) written by Frank Norris and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Pit a Story of Chicago The first novel, The Octopus, deals with the war between the wheat-grower and the Railroad Trust; the second, The Pit, is the fictitious narrative of a deal in the Chicago Wheat pit; while the third, The Wolf, will probably have for its pivotal episode the relieving of a famine in an Old World community. 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.
Download or read book Foiled written by Robert H. Cowdrey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Foiled: A Story of Chicago Of the fidelity to nature with which the author has drawn the characters, the reader must be the judge. The picture has been painted and the author steps back to allow his readers to judge of the character of his work. 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 Round about Chicago (Classic Reprint) by : Louella Chapin
Download or read book Round about Chicago (Classic Reprint) written by Louella Chapin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Round About Chicago By this time it is needless to say that the O. M. Is of the teaching sisterhood. Yet, gentle reader, turn not away! We are alone this summer, that is, without masculine hindrance; for Father, the correlative of Mother, is hence, on business bent, so there are no meals to be gotten to the minute, and no reason why we should be at home except at bed time. So we are going, all of us, not alone the o. M., to have a taste of real freedom and real joy, -oi the harmless country kind, I hasten to add. 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.
Download or read book Chicago written by William Hudson Harper and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Chicago: A History and Forecast Accordingly, by the hands of competent specialists, is herewith offered certain historical narratives Opportune to this hour, and by the editor is submitted as the for ward-looking division of the book matter descriptive of existing or projected work which either has already had popular approval or now invites the judgment of the Wise, that the next generation shall come into a practical inheritance and that the candle of today shall be the sun of tomorrow. The facts and Opinions wrought into this series of statements, constituting something in the nature of a synopsis of the elements of a Chicago development pro gram for the next quarter or half century, have been derived from authoritative sources, and care has been used to present the various issues without prejudice, partisanship or controversial pleading. 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 Book of Chicago (Classic Reprint) by : Robert Shackleton
Download or read book The Book of Chicago (Classic Reprint) written by Robert Shackleton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Book of Chicago Monday morning would there be discovery of his crime. With a Chicagoan, to think is to act. Con vinced that the trembling man before him felt genuine remorse and was of potential honesty of pur pose, the preacher said: You will 'go back to New York to-night. I will go with you. We will take the midnight train; and when the bank opens on Monday morning you and I will be together there to meet your directors.' And they were. The seal Of the city mingles the present and the past. A sheaf Of wheat is in the middle; and, oddly and Of course quite unintentionally, there is some thing about the way in which it is presented in mid air, which suggests the idea that it is held on a pair of hidden horns. There is a Ship under full sail before a brisk northeast wind; and sailing Ships are now an uncommon Sight here in these days of steam. There are rippling waves represented, and this, naturally, the city still has in its view; although many a Chicagoan, some in jest but most Of them in very serious earnest, have lamented the presence of the lake as something which has prevented the laying out Of streets to the eastward: And you will be told that thousands and thousands of Chicagoans have never seen the lake; this being literally the case, be cause immense numbers Of foreigners, living to the west Of the river, do not readily get to the Lake Front even if they come to the central business sec tion. 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 Chicago (Classic Reprint) by : H. C. Chatfield-Taylor
Download or read book Chicago (Classic Reprint) written by H. C. Chatfield-Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Chicago 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 From Side Streets and Boulevards by :
Download or read book From Side Streets and Boulevards written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-21 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from From Side Streets and Boulevards: A Collection of Chicago Stories IN the year 1858 lived in a diminutive cottage, on the outskirts of one of our large eastern cities, a small family in rather reduced circumstances. This family differed from the thousands similarly situated in the misfortunes leading to their pres ent condition. The father was one of the younger sons in a wealthy English family; he had been scrupulously taught the manly accomplishments appertaining to his station in life, received a liberal education, particularly in the art of spending money, and on reaching his twenty-fifth year fell in love with a handsome, highly educated girl, the daughter of a minister; this lady brought to her husband no larger dower than her beauty and devotion. All might have been well if the young husband had not already formed that taste for ardent spirits which has been, and is, the blight of so many hearthstones. 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.
Download or read book In Babel written by George Ade and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from In Babel: Stories of Chicago These little stories and sketches have been rewritten from certain daily contributions to the Chicago Record, now the Chicago record-herald. They have been assembl to this volume in the faint hope that they may as an antidote for the slang which has been administered to the public in such. 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 A Story of the Chicago Fire (Classic Reprint) by : David Swing
Download or read book A Story of the Chicago Fire (Classic Reprint) written by David Swing and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-07-29 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Story of the Chicago Fire HE art of writing made it possible for man to keep a history of his race; fig? But that art coming to a certain time. 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 Political History of Chicago (Classic Reprint) by : M. L. Ahern
Download or read book Political History of Chicago (Classic Reprint) written by M. L. Ahern and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Political History of Chicago In the preparation of the recollections contained in this book, the compiler acknowledges the services Of several Chicago journalists, most especially those of Harry Jones, Of the Chicago Tribune. 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 Story of Chicago in Connection With the Printing Business (Classic Reprint) by : Regan Printing House Chicago
Download or read book Story of Chicago in Connection With the Printing Business (Classic Reprint) written by Regan Printing House Chicago and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-25 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Story of Chicago in Connection With the Printing Business The author has felt it to be a large subject and one that has demanded considerable research, for although it is but a brief period, almost within the memory of some now living, that this history has been made, yet the events have so crowded themselves one upon another that it has been difficult to decide what to retain and what to discard. There was so much to say on every subject touched upon, but in a story it is expected that one should be interesting, otherwise it would lose zest in the telling and prove disappointing to the reader. The writer is under great obligations to Mr. M. H. Madden for much valuable information and assistance, as well as to many other valued friends. 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 Kup's Chicago (Classic Reprint) by : Irv Kupcinet
Download or read book Kup's Chicago (Classic Reprint) written by Irv Kupcinet and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Kup's Chicago For nearly twenty years, or ever since I began writing Kup's Column in the Chicago Times, now the Sun - Times, I've been following my town's daily drama and recording some of its history, checking its blood pressure, taking its pulse. In that time I have come to know many of its faces intimately, and it has many - from the stockyards to plush executive suites, from the slums and skid row to the Gold Coast. I've become acquainted with its politicos and merchant princes, its financial wizards and writers, and with the educators, clergy, sports heroes, hoodlums, and other con spicuous citizens and celebrities of our community. I've reported murders, scandals, marriages, premieres, and national political con ventions (of which Chicago has had more than any other city twenty-three). I've been amused, intrigued, outraged, enthralled, and eaperated by Chicago. And I've come to love this American giant, Viewing it as the most misunderstood, most underrated city in the world. There is none other quite like it, my City of Big Shoulders. 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 A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago (Classic Reprint) by : Ben Hecht
Download or read book A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago (Classic Reprint) written by Ben Hecht and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago A week or so later Ben came in again. Bringing actual manuscript for eight or ten stories. He was haggard but very happy. It was clear that he had sat up nights with those sto ries. He thumbed them over as though he hated to let them go. They were the first fruits of his Big Idea-{the idea that just under the edge of the news as commonly understood, the news often atly and unirnaginatively told, lay life; that in this urban life there dwelt the stuff of literature, not hidden in remote places, either, but walking the downtown streets, peering from the windows of sky scrapers, sunning it self in parks and boulevards. He was going to be its interpre ter. His was to be the lens throwing city life into new colors, his the microscope revealing its contortions in life and death. It was no newspaper dream at all, in fact. It was an artist's dream. And it had begun to come true. Here were the stories. Hoped I'd like 'em. 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 Rail-Roads, History and Commerce of Chicago (Classic Reprint) by : Daily Democratic Press
Download or read book The Rail-Roads, History and Commerce of Chicago (Classic Reprint) written by Daily Democratic Press and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Rail-Roads, History and Commerce of Chicago The whole country between the two rivers is not only all susceptible of cultivation, but a large portion of it is too rich to grow wheat successfully. Corn, hemp and tobacco are the principal staples. Mr. McAlpine says it is one of the best timbered portions of the Mississippi Valley. At no place is the road more than four miles from fine groves, which, with the fertile lands and delightful climate, make it peculiarly inviting to settlers. The soil is a rich loam, resting on a substratum of clay. The prevailing rock is limestone. The road is all under contract, and is to be finished by two years from the first of May. Messrs. Duff & Larned are the contractors. They are gentlemen of large experience, and are in all respects able to fill their contracts by the time specified. Twenty-five miles at each end of the road is to be completed and in operation during the present season; and the entire line is to be completed by the first of July, 1865. Chicago has a large interest in the construction of this road. We shall have two lines connecting with it either at Hannibal or Quincy, and perhaps at both of these points. The Aurora and Central Military Tract, and the Peoria and Hannibal Railroads will both be finished by the tune the Hannibal and St. Joseph's road is in operation. We shall receive a large trade from Northern Missouri as soon as we have a direct railroad connection with that fertile region. Although this road lies at a considerable distance south of this city, the result will show that it may justly be regarded as a part of that great system which has its centre here. No better example can be given of the rapidity and energy with which great enterprises are pushed forward to completion at the West, than the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad. Its progress seems more like the wonders of magic than a plain matter of fact reality. It was commenced on the 10th of April, 1852, and opened to Joliet forty miles, on the 18th of October, in the same year; to Morris, sixty-one miles, Jan. 5th, 1853 to Ottawa, eighty-three miles, Feb. 14th; to La Salle, ninety-eight miles, March 10th; to Peru ninety-nine miles, March 21st; to Tiskilwa, one hundred and twenty-two miles, Sept. 12th; to Sheffield, one hundred and thirty-six miles, Oct. 12th; to Geneseo, one hundred and fifty-eight miles, Dec. 19th - all during the last year. It was completed and opened to Rock Island, one hundred and eighty-one miles, on the 22d of February, 1854; being the first continuous line of railroad to reach the Mississippi from Lake Michigan. The city of Alton was reached about the first of October last; but three different roads had to be passed over in order that the iron horse might renew his strength from the great artery of the Western Continent. Think of this, ye ancient worthies, who, some fifteen years ago, would have required as many years to build the same number of miles of railroad! One hundred miles of the line was built, stocked, and in running order in less than a year; and the whole distance to the Mississippi, one hundred and eighty-one miles, was finished, and the road was in operation, in twenty-two and a half months! This simple statement speaks volumes for the intelligence, energy and business capacity of the contractors, Messrs. Sheffield & Farnam. It is one of the proudest monuments they could possibly have to their memory; and it will confer blessings innumerable upon the people of this city and those whose fertile fields lie along the line of the road for all time to come. We almost envy them the satisfaction which the accomplishment of so great a work in so short a period must afford them. The location of the road is peculiarly favorable for business. For the first hundred miles, it follows down the valley of the Illinois and its tributaries, through the flourishing towns and cities of Joliet, Morris and Ottawa, drawing the trade of
Book Synopsis Historic Chicago Sites (Classic Reprint) by : George Peter Jensen
Download or read book Historic Chicago Sites (Classic Reprint) written by George Peter Jensen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-03 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Historic Chicago Sites Chicago with the dramatic birth of their city. There is no other city in the world that has had so tragic a beginning, nor one that has risen to such fabqus heights in Size, in beauty, and in commerciai and industrial importance, in so short a time that it can be caiieci a man's lifetime. 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 Chicago, 1837-1922 by : C. D. Peacock
Download or read book Chicago, 1837-1922 written by C. D. Peacock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08-02 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Chicago, 1837-1922: 85th Anniversary It is particularly fitting that Peacock's should be known as The Jewelry Store for All Chi cago, as well as for all the people of. The Great Middle West, for the House of Peacock's started with Chicago, suffered with Chicago through its great fire and panics, and with Chicago it grew from a very modest start to a great enterprise. 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.
