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Wicker Park

Author : Elaine A. Coorens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780972681100
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book Wicker Park written by Elaine A. Coorens and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the backdrop of Chicago's creation and development, the Wicker Park district's emergence and explosion as a vital contributing factor to the city's rich historic fabric is chronicled in Wicker Park from 1673 thru 1929 and Walking Tour Guide. A fascinating patchwork of people; buildings; companies; political, religious, social, and community organizations; and events, the book provides the reader with a window into life in Wicker Park in the mid 1800's through the early 1900's. The United States' civilization was laboriously pushing from east to west as Wicker Park's immigrant factory workers struggled for a better life; sea captains' brought the world to Chicago; and merchants, industrialists, bankers, politicians, physicians, priests, ministers, and beer barons met a myriad of challenges.Waves of immigrants started with Irish, German, Norwegians and were followed by Eastern European Jews and Poles. Easch brought the development of institutions, organizations, and buildings, many of which continue to survive and thrive in the twenty-first century Wicker Park Community.Stories about and from the people of those times clamor for the reader's attention, taking them on a roller coaster ride of emotions that range from amazement to belly laughs and salty tears.Early residents included: famous brewing families such as Uhlein (Schilitz Brewing Company), Legner (West Side Brewing Company), and Seipp (Seipp Brewing Company); future corporate moguls such as the Pritzker Family (Hyatt Hotels, Hammond Organ and McCall's Magazine), and Arie Crown family (Hilton Corporation, General Kynamics and the Rock Island Railroad); entertainment workd names such as Carl Laemmle, founder of Universal Studios, and movie impresario Michael Todd; as well as Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning author Saul Bellow.Whether you take an armchair tour or self guided walking tour of this historic Chicago neighborhood, your experience will be enhanced by more than 275 photos, illustrations, maps, and diagrams clearly relating how the district came to be and how it grew. Internationally renowned, Wicker Park is both on the National Register for Historic Places (1979) and a Chicago Landmark Neighborhood (1991).

Everything Must Go

Author : Kevin Coval
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1642590835
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Everything Must Go written by Kevin Coval and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique artistic tribute to a Chicago neighborhood lost to gentrification: “Kevin Coval made me understand what it is to be a poet” (Chance the Rapper, Grammy winner and activist). Everything Must Go is an illustrated collection of poems in the spirit of a graphic novel, a collaboration between poet Kevin Coval and illustrator Langston Allston. The book celebrates Chicago’s Wicker Park in the late 1990s, Coval’s home as a young artist, the ancestral neighborhood of his forebears, and a vibrant enclave populated by colorful characters. Allston’s illustrations honor the neighborhood as it once was, before gentrification remade it. The book excavates and mourns that which has been lost in transition and serves as a template for understanding the process of displacement and reinvention currently reshaping American cities. “Chicago’s unofficial poet laureate.” —NPR

A Midsummer-night's Dream

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book A Midsummer-night's Dream written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pizza City, USA

Author : Steve Dolinsky
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810137755
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Pizza City, USA written by Steve Dolinsky and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are few things that Chicagoans feel more passionately about than pizza. Most have strong opinions about whether thin crust or deep-dish takes the crown, which ingredients are essential, and who makes the best pie in town. And in Chicago, there are as many destinations for pizza as there are individual preferences. Each of the city's seventy-seven neighborhoods is home to numerous go-to spots, featuring many styles and specialties. With so many pizzerias, it would seem impossible to determine the best of the best. Enter renowned Chicago-based food journalist Steve Dolinsky! In Pizza City, USA: 101 Reasons Why Chicago Is America's Greatest Pizza Town, Dolinsky embarks on a pizza quest, methodically testing more than a hundred different pizzas in Chicagoland. Zestfully written and thoroughly researched, Pizza City, USA is a hunger–inducing testament to Dolinsky's passion for great, unpretentious food. This user-friendly guide is smartly organized by location, and by the varieties served by the city's proud pizzaioli–including thin, artisan, Neapolitan, deep-dish and pan, stuffed, Sicilian, Roman, and Detroit-style, as well as by-the-slice. Pizza City also includes Dolinsky's "Top 5 Pizzas" in several categories, a glossary of Chicago pizza terms, and maps and photos to steer devoted foodies and newcomers alike.

Confessions of a Bookseller

Author : Shaun Bythell
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1782835393
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Confessions of a Bookseller written by Shaun Bythell and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Irreverently funny ... kept me giggling all week.' Scotland on Sunday "Do you have a list of your books, or do I just have to stare at them?" Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland. With more than a mile of shelving, real log fires in the shop and the sea lapping nearby, the shop should be an idyll for bookworms. Unfortunately, Shaun also has to contend with bizarre requests from people who don't understand what a shop is, home invasions during the Wigtown Book Festival and Granny, his neurotic Italian assistant who likes digging for river mud to make poultices.

Horror Stories

Author : Liz Phair
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0525511997
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Horror Stories written by Liz Phair and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter behind the groundbreaking album Exile in Guyville traces her life and career in a genre-bending memoir in stories about the pivotal moments that haunt her. “Honest, original and absolutely remarkable.”—NPR (Best Books of the Year) When Liz Phair shook things up with her musical debut, Exile in Guyville—making her as much a cultural figure as a feminist pioneer and rock star—her raw candor, uncompromising authenticity, and deft storytelling inspired a legion of critics, songwriters, musicians, and fans alike. Now, like a Gen X Patti Smith, Liz Phair reflects on the path she has taken in these piercing essays that reveal the indelible memories that have stayed with her. For Phair, horror is in the eye of the beholder—in the often unrecognized universal experiences of daily pain, guilt, and fear that make up our humanity. Illuminating despair with hope and consolation, tempering it all with her signature wit, Horror Stories is immersive, taking readers inside the most intimate junctures of Phair’s life, from facing her own bad behavior and the repercussions of betraying her fundamental values, to watching her beloved grandmother inevitably fade, to undergoing the beauty of childbirth while being hit up for an autograph by the anesthesiologist. Horror Stories is a literary accomplishment that reads like the confessions of a friend. It gathers up all of our isolated shames and draws them out into the light, uniting us in our shared imperfection, our uncertainty and our cowardice, smashing the stigma of not being in control. But most importantly, the uncompromising precision and candor of Horror Stories transforms these deeply personal experiences into tales about each and every one of us.

True Haunting

Author : Edwin F. Becker
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1463408625
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book True Haunting written by Edwin F. Becker and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "24 year old ed Becker purchases a house for himself and his expecting wife; a two-flat apartment building, which would allow them to live in one apartment and rent the other. What Ed doesn't know, is that there are already tenants residing in this building that he cannot evict ... Skeptical and street-smart, Ed has a difficult time coming to the realization that this apartment is home to the paranormal. As tensions begin to build between his spouse and himself, he attributes the stress to the new lifestyle they had accumulated, as both property owners and new parents. Coupled with the efforts of working long hours and restoring a dilapidated home, Ed ignores the unusual happenings that have no viable explanation. And what happens when something that wants to be noticed goes unacknowledged? Things escalate ... Read this hauntingly true story, of one of the earliest televised exorcisms in the nation, brought to the forefront by NBC. Interviewed and reported by nationally known news correspondent, Carole Simpson, and conducted by nationally known psychic Joseph DeLouise and exorcist, Rev. William Derl-Davis. Go behind the scenes of the known history of this truly haunted home--one that shattered the dreams of a young couple, and the family that can never leave it."--Page 4 of cover

Chicago Street Art

Author : Joseph J. Depre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615461229
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book Chicago Street Art written by Joseph J. Depre and published by . This book was released on 2011-04-30 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chicago Neighborhoods and Suburbs

Author : Ann Durkin Keating
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226428834
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Chicago Neighborhoods and Suburbs written by Ann Durkin Keating and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Which neighborhood?" It's one of the first questions you're asked when you move to Chicago. And the answer you give - be it Bucktown, Bronzeville, or Bridgeport - can give your inquisitor a good idea of who you are, especially in a metropolis with so many different neighborhoods and suburbs to choose from." "Many of us know little of the neighborhoods beyond those where we work, play, and live. This is particularly true in Chicagoland, a region that spans over 4,400 square miles and is home to more than 9.5 million residents. Now, historian Ann Durkin Keating's compact guide, drawn largely from the bestselling Encyclopedia of Chicago, brings the history of Chicago neighborhoods to life."--BOOK JACKET.

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

How to Disappear

Author : Moki
Publisher : Gingko Press Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781584234173
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book How to Disappear written by Moki and published by Gingko Press Editions. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moki's images are unsettling and charming, strange yet familiar. They feature lonely northern landscapes: isolated Scandinavian and Icelandic terrain, a subarctic frozen lake continent, untouched caves and moss meadows and mountains sculpted into anatomical shapes by wind and water. Animals and humans emerge and dissolve into their environments. Within the solitude of nature, disappearing seems an obvious act. Her art evokes the animation of Hayao Miyazaki, but with a chilling beauty that's pure Moki.

Coherer

Author : Alicia Cohen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988988538
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book Coherer written by Alicia Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. On a scale extending from the minutely observed to species apocalypse, from the daily facts of raising children and housekeeping to the premonition that "cancer is tending / to erase the fathomable / wartech mindmanacle," Alicia Cohen gives her attention to the righteous labor to make sense of an incoherent world where "housekeepers fix mess and wreck / unnoted among / galaxies of perfume earth" the Eleusinian mysteries long ago foretold. In Cohen's COHERER, "longing is the only / belonging."

Like an Olive

Author : Tirzah Goldenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988988590
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book Like an Olive written by Tirzah Goldenberg and published by . This book was released on 2022-04 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tirzah Goldenberg's LIKE AN OLIVE opens a space for me interior to the word, moves by some expansive mobility anterior to the letter, at once unfurling and embroidering, at once a hermitage below image and a vessel whose play of absence carries, like an archeological fragment, the forms and questions of our inheritance. This k'zayis, like an olive, is a shiur I want to show up for again and again, a book which presses with sensitive longing the pressing particulars of a present. How to live, where to live, how to be with others, how in a fractured overlapping and doubling of diasporas might we construct our communities and futures? Offered is a rhyme between ancient and contemporary, between personal and mystical, possible because of what's allowed in the word as Goldenberg writes: a past and present embellishing the measure of themselves in a pun far deeper and larger than wit. --Lewis Freedman Poetry. Jewish Studies.

A Field Guide to Gay & Lesbian Chicago

Author : Kathie Bergquist
Publisher : Lake Claremont Press
ISBN 13 : 9781893121034
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book A Field Guide to Gay & Lesbian Chicago written by Kathie Bergquist and published by Lake Claremont Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first and only book to give gay and lesbian travelers the inside scoop on gay-friendly accommodations, shopping, sports, recreation, music, theater, dining, and nightlife in the Windy City. This chatty, opinionated guide to gay life and culture is written by longtime gay-neighborhood-dwelling Chicagoans for residents and visitors. Photos.

Undeleted Scenes

Author : Jeffrey Brown
Publisher : Top Shelf Productions
ISBN 13 : 1603092277
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Undeleted Scenes written by Jeffrey Brown and published by Top Shelf Productions. This book was released on 2010 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thoroughly engaging and loaded with charm to burn, this latest work from Brown is a perfect example of how to do autobiographical comics right. ... this is good stuff that solidly resonates with a palpable and universal humanity and bears repeated readings." -- Publishers Weekly "It's essentially an odds and ends collection, but it reads like a greatest hits."-- Playback:STL "Undeleted Scenes should be on the serious comic book reader's must-buy list."-- Comic Book Bin "Undeleted Scenes is a fantastic collection of ... some of the best work of Brown's career. ... the way that Brown gets at the heart of small details to convey a larger emotional truth is what makes his comics so compulsively readable."-- Rob Clough, The Comics Journal Undeleted Scenes presents a decade's worth of shorter works from indie comics legend Jeffrey Brown. This huge compendium contains stories from the previous collections Minisulk, Every Girl Is the End of the World for Me, and Feeble Attempts, as well as Jeffrey's work from anthologies such as Kramers Ergot and McSweeney's, plus rare material from minicomics and elsewhere, including dozens of pages of never-before-seen material. Spanning humor, autobiography, and beyond, some of Jeffrey's most beloved comics are in here _- including the fan-favorite self-parody collection Be A Man! All in all, it's an essential addition to every comic reader's Jeffrey Brown library.

Between the Covers

Author : Rebecca Makkai
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692106280
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Between the Covers written by Rebecca Makkai and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of bookstore erotica by contemporary poets, fiction authors & comic artists.

This Thin Memory A-ha

Author : Eric P. Elshtain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988988514
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book This Thin Memory A-ha written by Eric P. Elshtain and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Mnemosyne as memory is mother to the nine muses, who bring us forgetfulness of evil and rest from pain, according to the epic poets. But what does the lyric poet do with the mother of the muses, when his language is plosives and assonance erupting from thickets? "This scriptlessness // will be about subsistence, it will become / the centerpiece of a belief," announces Eric Elshtain near the outset of his remarkable first full-length collection, an antic assembly of highly-wrought hymns and Linnaean hexes in which memory narrows and billows, "while we go headlong / to eat the arms of charlatans // rescuing every rickety magician / from salvation."