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Author : John Moses
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book History of Chicago, Illinois written by John Moses and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 532 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 : Robert G. Spinney
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501748351
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book City of Big Shoulders written by Robert G. Spinney and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City of Big Shoulders links key events in Chicago's development, from its marshy origins in the 1600s to today's robust metropolis. Robert G. Spinney presents Chicago in terms of the people whose lives made the city—from the tycoons and the politicians to the hundreds of thousands of immigrants from all over the world. In this revised and updated second edition that brings Chicago's story into the twenty-first century, Spinney sweeps his historian's gaze across the colorful and dramatic panorama of the city's explosive past. How did the pungent swamplands that the Native Americans called "the wild-garlic place" burgeon into one of the world's largest and most sophisticated cities? What is the real story behind the Great Chicago Fire? What aspects of American industry exploded with the bomb in Haymarket Square? Could the gritty blue-collar hometown of Al Capone become a visionary global city? A city of immigrants and entrepreneurs, Chicago is quintessentially American. Spinney brings it to life and highlights the key people, moments, and special places—from Fort Dearborn to Cabrini-Green, Marquette to Mayor Daley, the Union Stock Yards to the Chicago Bulls—that make this incredible city one of the best places in the world.
Author : Joel Greenberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226306496
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book A Natural History of the Chicago Region written by Joel Greenberg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In A Natural History of the Chicago Region, Greenberg takes you on a journey that begins with European explorers and settlers and hasn't ended yet. Along the way he introduces you to the physical forces that have shaped the area from southeastern Wisconsin to northern Indiana and Berrien County in Michigan; the various habitat types present in the region and how European settlement has affected them; and the insects, reptiles, amphibians, birds, fish, and mammals found in presettlement times, then amid the settlers and now amid the skyscrappers. In all, Greenberg chronicles the development of nineteen counties in Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin across centuries of ecological, technological, and social transformations."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : John Moses
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book ... History of Chicago, Illinois written by John Moses and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : JOHN. MOSES
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ISBN 13 : 9780282778378
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (783 download)
Download or read book HISTORY OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,. written by JOHN. MOSES and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bessie Louise Pierce
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226668401
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book A History of Chicago, Volume II written by Bessie Louise Pierce and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 616 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 : 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 : Ian Rocksborough-Smith
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252050339
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Black Public History in Chicago written by Ian Rocksborough-Smith and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2018-04-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In civil-rights-era Chicago, a dedicated group of black activists, educators, and organizations employed black public history as more than cultural activism. Their work and vision energized a black public history movement that promoted political progress in the crucial time between World War II and the onset of the Cold War. Ian Rocksborough-Smith's meticulous research and adept storytelling provide the first in-depth look at how these committed individuals leveraged Chicago's black public history. Their goal: to engage with the struggle for racial equality. Rocksborough-Smith shows teachers working to advance curriculum reform in public schools, while well-known activists Margaret and Charles Burroughs pushed for greater recognition of black history by founding the DuSable Museum of African American History. Organizations like the Afro-American Heritage Association, meanwhile, used black public history work to connect radical politics and nationalism. Together, these people and their projects advanced important ideas about race, citizenship, education, and intellectual labor that paralleled the shifting terrain of mid-twentieth century civil rights.
Author : Alfred Theodore Andreas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/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 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cathy Jean Maloney
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226502368
Total Pages : 431 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 431 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 : Frank Alfred Randall
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252024160
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (241 download)
Download or read book History of the Development of Building Construction in Chicago written by Frank Alfred Randall and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The second edition of History of the Development of Building Construction in Chicago is a tribute to Frank Randall's vision and resource to Chicago area architects, engineers, preservation specialists, and other members of the building industry."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : John Moses
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266611363
Total Pages : 1144 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (113 download)
Download or read book History of Chicago, Illinois, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) written by John Moses and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of Chicago, Illinois, Vol. 2 Robert W. Patterson, J r., present secretary and treasurer of the Tribune Company, is a robertw. Native of the city of Chicago, pattersodv-tf born Nov. 30, 1850. He is the son of Rev. R. W. Patterson, D. D., for so many years pastor of the Second Presby terian church, and one of the best known of the early Chicago ministers - now of Evans ton. Mr. Patterson was educated at Wil liams College, Mass, graduating in the class of 1871; spent some time in the study of law, and between March, 1872, and September, 1873, was connected with'the Interior, the organ of the Presbyterian church. Retiring from the Interior, he accepted a position upon the Tribune, first as telegraph editor, but has filled successively those of night editor, news editor, literary editor, dramatic critic, general editorial writer, Washington correspondent, and managing editor, until now, as secretary and treasurer of the Trib une Company, he fills the post of business manager, with general supervision of the paper and its business affairs. Mr. Patterson is son-in-law of Mr. Medill, from whose shoulders he is gradually receiving the ih creasing burden of responsibility in the management of a great newspaper. 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.
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 : Alfred Theodore Andreas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( 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 1884 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Lewis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226477045
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Chicago Made written by Robert Lewis and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the lumberyards and meatpacking factories of the Southwest Side to the industrial suburbs that arose near Lake Calumet at the turn of the twentieth century, manufacturing districts shaped Chicago’s character and laid the groundwork for its transformation into a sprawling metropolis. Approaching Chicago’s story as a reflection of America’s industrial history between the Civil War and World War II, Chicago Made explores not only the well-documented workings of centrally located city factories but also the overlooked suburbanization of manufacturing and its profound effect on the metropolitan landscape. Robert Lewis documents how manufacturers, attracted to greenfield sites on the city’s outskirts, began to build factory districts there with the help of an intricate network of railroad owners, real estate developers, financiers, and wholesalers. These immense networks of social ties, organizational memberships, and financial relationships were ultimately more consequential, Lewis demonstrates, than any individual achievement. Beyond simply giving Chicago businesses competitive advantages, they transformed the economic geography of the region. Tracing these transformations across seventy-five years, Chicago Made establishes a broad new foundation for our understanding of urban industrial America.
