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The Maxwell Street Blues
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Author : Michael Raleigh
language : en
Publisher: Diversion Books
Release Date : 2015-02-15
The Maxwell Street Blues written by Michael Raleigh and has been published by Diversion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-15 with Fiction categories.
A PI combs the seedy Chicago streets to untangle a web of old feuds that may have turned fatal: “This series is a small treasure” (Booklist). Chicago private eye Paul Whelan is hired by an elderly jazz musician to find a missing street hustler named Sam Burwell. As Whelan delves into Burwell’s past, in the world of sidewalk vendors and corner musicians, he uncovers old enmities and love affairs, but his search for Burwell comes up empty. That is, until Burwell is found murdered—and Whelan is swept up into a whirlwind of old feuds, dark pasts, unlikely romances . . . and a killer hiding in plain sight. “There is method as well as charm in the congenial manner of Mr. Raleigh’s detective, who manages to conduct a very thorough investigation by winning over grumpy bartenders, crabby waitresses and wary old men on benches. He likes these people—and that’s good enough reason to like him.” —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times “The smells and the sounds are evocative: the greasy food that Whelan thrives on, the dank workingman’s bars and the ever-present rattle of the el overhead . . . Raleigh presents a genuine good guy in the luckless Whelan and offers a knockout supporting cast.” —Publishers Weekly
Maxwell Street Blues
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Author : Marc Krulewitch
language : en
Publisher: Alibi
Release Date : 2014-08-05
Maxwell Street Blues written by Marc Krulewitch and has been published by Alibi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-05 with Fiction categories.
Readers of Robert Crais’s Elvis Cole mysteries will love Jules Landau, a college man turned private eye on the Windy City’s mean streets—a virtual school of hard knocks where graduation means just staying alive. Chicago runs in Jules Landau’s veins. So does the blood of crooks. Now Jules is going legit as a private eye, stalking bail jumpers and cheating spouses—until he gets his first big case. Unfortunately, the client is his ex-con father, and the job is finding the killer of a man whom Jules loved like family. Why did someone put two bullets in the head of gentle bookkeeper Charles Snook? Jules is determined to find out, even if the search takes him to perilous places he never wanted to go. Snooky, as he was affectionately known, had a knack for turning dirty dollars clean, with clients ranging from humble shop owners to sharp-dressed mobsters. As Jules retraces Snooky’s last days, he crosses paths with a way-too-eager detective, a gorgeous and perplexing tattoo artist, a silver-haired university administrator with a kinky side, and a crusading journalist. Exposing one dirty secret after another, the PI is on a dangerous learning curve. And, at the top of that curve, a killer readies to strike again.
The Maxwell Street Blues
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Author : Michael Raleigh
language : en
Publisher: St Martins Press
Release Date : 1994
The Maxwell Street Blues written by Michael Raleigh and has been published by St Martins Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Fiction categories.
Hired to find Maxwell Street hustler and flea-marketeer, Sam Burwell, Paul Whelan finds himself getting sucked a little too far into Chicago's underworld when Burwell's murdered body is found. By the author of A Body in Belmont Harbor.
Maxwell Street
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Author : Tim Cresswell
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2019-03-18
Maxwell Street written by Tim Cresswell 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 2019-03-18 with History categories.
What is the nature of place, and how does one undertake to write about it? To answer these questions, geographer and poet Tim Cresswell looks to Chicago’s iconic Maxwell Street Market area. Maxwell Street was for decades a place where people from all corners of the city mingled to buy and sell goods, play and listen to the blues, and encounter new foods and cultures. Now, redeveloped and renamed University Village, it could hardly be more different. In Maxwell Street, Cresswell advocates approaching the study of place as an “assemblage” of things, meanings, and practices. He models this innovative approach through a montage format that exposes the different types of texts—primary, secondary, and photographic sources—that have attempted to capture the essence of the area. Cresswell studies his historical sources just as he explores the different elements of Maxwell Street—exposing them layer by layer. Brilliantly interweaving words and images, Maxwell Street sheds light on a historic Chicago neighborhood and offers a new model for how to write about place that will interest anyone in the fields of geography, urban studies, or cultural history.
Chicago S Maxwell Street
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Author : Lori Grove
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2002
Chicago S Maxwell Street written by Lori Grove and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
Presents a collection of photographs that depict the history of Maxwell Street in Chicago.
Maxwell Street
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Author : Ira Berkow
language : en
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Release Date : 1977
Maxwell Street written by Ira Berkow and has been published by Doubleday Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Maxwell Street is an open-air market on Chicago's West Side, the center of a ghetto about a mile square, where thousands of Jewish immigrants fleeing pogroms and persecution in Eastern Europe settled and first set up business in America between 1880 and 1924. This engrossing, lively and richly illustrated chronicle recreates the color, the diversity and the personality of Maxwell Street both through the author's recollections of his own childhood experience and the actual stories of many for whom Maxwell Street was the first taste of America.
Bluesspeak
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Author : Lincoln T Beauchamp
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2023-12-11
Bluesspeak written by Lincoln T Beauchamp and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-11 with Music categories.
This incomparable anthology collects articles, interviews, fiction, and poetry from the Original Chicago Blues Annual, one of music history's most significant periodical blues publications. Founded and operated from 1989 to 1995 by African American musician and entrepreneur Lincoln T. Beauchamp Jr., OCBA gave voice to the blues community and often frankly addressed contentious issues within the blues such as race, identity, prejudice, wealth, gender, and inequity. OCBA often expressed an explicitly black perspective, but its contributors were a mix of black and white, American and international. Likewise, although OCBA's roots and main focus were in Chicago, Beauchamp's vision for the publication (and his own activities as a blues performer and promoter) embraced an international dimension, reflecting a broad diversity of blues audiences and activities in locations as farflung as Iceland, Poland, France, Italy, and South Africa. This volume includes key selections from OCBA's seven issues and features candid interviews with blues luminaries such as Koko Taylor, Eddie Boyd, Famoudou Don Moye, Big Daddy Kinsey, Lester Bowie, Junior Wells, Billy Boy Arnold, Herb Kent, Barry Dolins, and many more. Also featured are heartfelt memorials to bygone blues artists, insightful observations on the state of the blues in Chicago and beyond, and dozens of photographs of performers, promoters, and other participants in the worldwide blues scene.
Jewish Maxwell Street Stories
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2004
Jewish Maxwell Street Stories written by and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Anyone who has seen Maxwell Street has a story about Maxwell Street. You didn't have to shop there, work there, or eat there. You didn't have to be Jewish. You just had to go there, or merely pass-by, in order to experience something that stuck in your mind forever. Only a few blocks south of Chicago's downtown, Maxwell Street was predominately a Jewish enclave, but you could also hear the Blues, bargain with Gypsies, and find bargain hunters from all walks of life. This book focuses on the stories of the last Jewish generations that lived and worked in the Maxwell Street market area. Beginning in the late 19th century, it was there that thousands of Jewish immigrants first grasped the American dream. The descendents of those first Jewish peddlers absorbed the legacies left them; some went on to be among the most notable and successful personalities of the 20th century. On Maxwell Street, the best merchandise was knowledge.
100 Years At Hull House
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Author : Mary Lynn McCree Bryan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
100 Years At Hull House written by Mary Lynn McCree Bryan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with History categories.
Documents the history of Hull House and how it confronted poverty, poor housing, disease, discouragement, and other ills in the industrial city. Attempts to show how the settlement and the neighborhood changed in the twentieth century and records the conflicts and controversies, failures and successes.
Saving Maxwell Street
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Author : Janelle L. Walker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Saving Maxwell Street written by Janelle L. Walker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with categories.