History Of Chicago From The Earliest Period To The Present Time Vol 2 Of 3

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History Of Chicago

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Author : Alfred Theodore Andreas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886

History Of Chicago written by Alfred Theodore Andreas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1886 with Chicago (Ill.) categories.

History Of Chicago

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Author : Alfred Theodore Andreas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884

History Of Chicago written by Alfred Theodore Andreas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with Chicago (Ill.) categories.

History Of Chicago From The Earliest Period To The Present Time With Illustrations Vol 1

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Author : a. t Andreas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884

History Of Chicago From The Earliest Period To The Present Time With Illustrations Vol 1 written by a. t Andreas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with categories.

History Of Chicago From The Earliest Period To The Present Time Volume 3

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Author : Alfred Theodore Andreas
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2022-10-27

History Of Chicago From The Earliest Period To The Present Time Volume 3 written by Alfred Theodore Andreas and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-27 with categories.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Hist Of Chicago From The Earli

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Author : Alfred Theodore 1839-1906 Andreas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-08-26

Hist Of Chicago From The Earli written by Alfred Theodore 1839-1906 Andreas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-26 with History categories.

The Chicago River

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Author : Libby Hill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-02-21

The Chicago River written by Libby Hill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Originally published: Lake Claremont Press, 2000.

Chicago By The Book

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Author : Caxton Club
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2018-11-20

Chicago By The Book written by Caxton Club 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 2018-11-20 with History categories.

Despite its rough-and-tumble image, Chicago has long been identified as a city where books take center stage. In fact, a volume by A. J. Liebling gave the Second City its nickname. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle arose from the midwestern capital’s most infamous industry. The great Chicago Fire led to the founding of the Chicago Public Library. The city has fostered writers such as Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Chicago’s literary magazines The Little Review and Poetry introduced the world to Eliot, Hemingway, Joyce, and Pound. The city’s robust commercial printing industry supported a flourishing culture of the book. With this beautifully produced collection, Chicago’s rich literary tradition finally gets its due. Chicago by the Book profiles 101 landmark publications about Chicago from the past 170 years that have helped define the city and its image. Each title—carefully selected by the Caxton Club, a venerable Chicago bibliophilic organization—is the focus of an illustrated essay by a leading scholar, writer, or bibliophile. Arranged chronologically to show the history of both the city and its books, the essays can be read in order from Mrs. John H. Kinzie’s 1844 Narrative of the Massacre of Chicago to Sara Paretsky’s 2015 crime novel Brush Back. Or one can dip in and out, savoring reflections on the arts, sports, crime, race relations, urban planning, politics, and even Mrs. O’Leary’s legendary cow. The selections do not shy from the underside of the city, recognizing that its grit and graft have as much a place in the written imagination as soaring odes and boosterism. As Neil Harris observes in his introduction, “Even when Chicagoans celebrate their hearth and home, they do so while acknowledging deep-seated flaws.” At the same time, this collection heartily reminds us all of what makes Chicago, as Norman Mailer called it, the “great American city.” With essays from, among others, Ira Berkow, Thomas Dyja, Ann Durkin Keating, Alex Kotlowitz, Toni Preckwinkle, Frank Rich, Don Share, Carl Smith, Regina Taylor, Garry Wills, and William Julius Wilson; and featuring works by Saul Bellow, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sandra Cisneros, Clarence Darrow, Erik Larson, David Mamet, Studs Terkel, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Frank Lloyd Wright, and many more.

Fortune And Faith In Old Chicago

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Author : Charles H. Cosgrove
language : en
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Release Date : 2020-02-24

Fortune And Faith In Old Chicago written by Charles H. Cosgrove and has been published by Southern Illinois University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

This engaging biography of Augustus Garrett and Eliza Clark Garrett tells two equally compelling stories: an ambitious man’s struggle to succeed and the remarkable spiritual journey of a woman attempting to overcome tragedy. By contextualizing the couple’s lives within the rich social, political, business, and religious milieu of Chicago’s early urbanization, author Charles H. Cosgrove fills a gap in the history of the city in the mid-nineteenth century. The Garretts moved from the Hudson River Valley to a nascent Chicago, where Augustus made his fortune in the land boom as an auctioneer and speculator. A mayor during the city’s formative period, Augustus was at the center of the first mayoral election scandal in Chicago. To save his honor, he resigned dramatically and found vindication in his reelection the following year. His story reveals much about the inner workings of Chicago politics and business in the antebellum era. The couple had lost three young children to disease, and Eliza arrived in Chicago with deep emotional scars. Her journey exemplifies the struggles of sincere, pious women to come to terms with tragedy in an age when most people attributed unhappy events to divine punishment. Following Augustus’s premature death, Eliza developed plans to devote her estate to founding a women’s college and a school for ministerial training, and in 1853 she endowed a Methodist theological school, the Garrett Biblical Institute (now the Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary), thereby becoming the first woman in North America to found an institution of higher learning. In addition to illuminating our understanding of Chicago from the 1830s to the 1850s, Fortune and Faith in Old Chicago explores American religious history, particularly Presbyterianism and Methodism, and its attention to gender shows how men and women experienced the same era in vastly different ways. The result is a rare, fascinating glimpse into old Chicago through the eyes of two of its important early residents.

History Of Chicago From The Earliest Period To The Present Time Volume 2

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Author : A. T. (Alfred Theodore) Andreas
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2022-10-27

History Of Chicago From The Earliest Period To The Present Time Volume 2 written by A. T. (Alfred Theodore) Andreas and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-27 with History categories.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Great Chicago Fire And The Myth Of Mrs O Leary S Cow

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Author : Richard F. Bales
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-09-01

The Great Chicago Fire And The Myth Of Mrs O Leary S Cow written by Richard F. Bales and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-01 with History categories.

The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 swallowed up more than three square miles in two days, leaving thousands homeless and 300 dead. Throughout history, the fire has been attributed to Mrs. O’Leary, an immigrant Irish milkmaid, and her cow. On one level, the tale of Mrs. O’Leary’s cow is merely the quintessential urban legend. But the story also represents a means by which the upper classes of Chicago could blame the fire’s chaos on a member of the working poor. Although that fire destroyed the official county documents, some land tract records were saved. Using this and other primary source information, Richard F. Bales created a scale drawing that reconstructed the O’Leary neighborhood. Next he turned to the transcripts—more than 1,100 handwritten pages—from an investigation conducted by the Board of Police and Fire Commissioners, which interviewed 50 people over the course of 12 days. The board’s final report, published in the Chicago newspapers on December 12, 1871, indicates that commissioners were unable to determine the cause of the fire. And yet, by analyzing the 50 witnesses’ testimonies, the author concludes that the commissioners could have determined the cause of the fire had they desired to do so. Being more concerned with saving their own reputation from post-fire reports of incompetence, drunkenness and bribery, the commissioners failed to press forward for an answer. The author has uncovered solid evidence as to what really caused the Great Chicago Fire.