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Chicago S Gold Coast
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Author : Wilbert Jones
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2012
Chicago S Gold Coast written by Wilbert Jones and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
What was once described as an undesirable swampland has been transformed into one of the most beautiful and wealthiest neighborhoods in America. Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood, developed in the late 1800s, was first called the Astor Street District. It was named after one of the first multimillionaires in the United States, John Jacob Astor--even though Astor never lived in Chicago. In 1885, Astor Street District's first mansion was built. Potter Palmer, a dry goods merchant and owner of the Palmer House Hotel, built his palatial, castle-like residence on the corner of Lake Shore Drive and Banks Street; inside the Palmer mansion were 42 lavishly furnished rooms, which required 26 servants to maintain. Many wealthy Chicagoans followed Palmer's lead and built mansions in the neighborhood. Several homes took up an entire city block and, as time progressed, the name Gold Coast was adopted. On January 30, 1978, the entire Gold Coast district was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Join authors Wilbert Jones, Maureen V. O'Brien, and Kathleen Willis Morton, longtime residents of the Gold Coast, on an engrossing journey through the neighborhood's history. Includes archival images along with the more contemporary images of photographer Bob Dowey.
The Gold Coast And The Slum
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Author : Harvey Warren Zorbaugh
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1983-07-15
The Gold Coast And The Slum written by Harvey Warren Zorbaugh and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-07-15 with History categories.
"This is a book about Chicago. It is also, and for that very reason, a book about every other American city which has lived long enough and grown large enough to experience the transformation of neighborhoods and the contact of cultures and the tension between different types of individual and community behavior. . . . Here is a type of sociological investigation which is equally marked by human interest and scientific method."—Christian Century
Chicago
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language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Chicago written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
Chicago S Gold Coast
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Author : Wilbert Jones
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Chicago S Gold Coast written by Wilbert Jones and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Chicago (Ill.) categories.
What was once described as an undesirable swampland has been transformed into one of the most beautiful and wealthiest neighborhoods in America. Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood, developed in the late 1800s, was first called the Astor Street District. It was named after one of the first multimillionaires in the United States, John Jacob Astor--even though Astor never lived in Chicago. In 1885, Astor Street District's first mansion was built. Potter Palmer, a dry goods merchant and owner of the Palmer House Hotel, built his palatial, castle-like residence on the corner of Lake Shore Drive and Banks Street; inside the Palmer mansion were 42 lavishly furnished rooms, which required 26 servants to maintain. Many wealthy Chicagoans followed Palmer's lead and built mansions in the neighborhood. Several homes took up an entire city block and, as time progressed, the name Gold Coast was adopted. On January 30, 1978, the entire Gold Coast district was listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
The Gold Coast And The Slum
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Author : Harvey Warren Zorbaugh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1935
The Gold Coast And The Slum written by Harvey Warren Zorbaugh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1935 with Chicago categories.
The Gold Coast And The Slum
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Author : Harvey Warren Zorbaugh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
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King Of The Gold Coast
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Author : Wayne Klatt
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2011-07-22
King Of The Gold Coast written by Wayne Klatt and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-22 with History categories.
Chicago's breathtaking Lake Shore Drive, with its beaches and luxury homes, has its origin in a neglected marsh and a clandestine land development. Meet the uncrowned king of the disputed shore, George Wellington Streeter, the outlandish swindler, unlikely hero and self-proclaimed founder of the Gold Coast who tried to secede from the state of Illinois. Opposing him was the quiet vision of Potter Palmer and the full weight of his investment syndicate. With this keen piece of investigative history, Wayne Klatt uncovers the secrets that both sides of the conflict managed to keep in spite of lawsuits, state inquiries, a presidential forgery and two murder trials.
Gold Coast And The Slum
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Author : Harvey Warren Zorbaugh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991-09-01
Gold Coast And The Slum written by Harvey Warren Zorbaugh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-09-01 with Social Science categories.
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The Jewel Of The Gold Coast
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Author : Sally Sexton Kalmbach
language : en
Publisher: Ampersand, Incorporated
Release Date : 2009
The Jewel Of The Gold Coast written by Sally Sexton Kalmbach and has been published by Ampersand, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
With over 50 historical photos, some of which are from the family's
Gold Coast Madam
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Author : Rose Laws
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Gold Coast Madam written by Rose Laws and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Brothels categories.
Chicago, 1988. I was 52 years old, 5'4" tall, and 130 pounds, with red hair and a 36DDD bust, enjoying dramatic Lake Michigan and skyline views from my 21st-floor apartment in the landmark Lake Point Towers building. I had never felt more alive. I was Chicago's reigning madam, providing $400 an hour call girls to Chicago's business owners, traders, lawyers, judges, politicians, mobsters, pro athletes, and Hollywood stars at addresses all over Chicago's downtown and Gold Coast. Vice was on their way up--the doorman had tipped me off. I started thinking back on my life, where I came from, and how I ever got to where I was now. I began life the youngest of nine on a primitive farm in the backwoods of Tennessee. Seeking to make my own way in the world I would meet and marry a man from Cicero, Illinois. Soon I was pregnant eight times in eight years, malnourished, and beaten--once nearly to death. That’s when I left. When I recovered and returned for my five kids, I discovered they'd been put in a brutal orphanage. It took me years to get them back. God knows why I got into this business. It was to save my kids. But I chose to stay. I enjoyed it, I was good at it, and I’d still do it today if I could... From my earliest days as a hanky-panky entrepreneur in the 1960s--renting rooms by the hour at the Addison Motel--others took notice. Playboy, Penthouse, the Sybaris. My adventures took me to all over the Western Suburbs, to Atlanta, Savannah, and the Oak Brook Polo Fields, and eventually to the nightclubs, bars, yachts, and penthouses of Chicago’s Gold Coast. I’d work in this business until 2002 when the FBI busted me and I served 17 months in federal prison. Now I’m retired, living in Florida, and spending my days like many seniors here, walking, playing with my grandchildren, going to church. Let me take you back to my days of juggling three sugar daddies, living and breathing sex, providing the city’s elite with beautiful women, having loads of cash and tons of fun, and experiencing the joys and heartaches of a life on the edge, lived to its fullest.