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Unknown Chicago Tales
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Author : John R. Schmidt
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2021
Unknown Chicago Tales written by John R. Schmidt and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with History categories.
"Chicago's most famous stories tend to crowd out the competition and shout down alternate perspectives. Visit with the man who founded a 150-year-long Chicago political dynasty. Take a peek at some of the lesser-known Chicago film classics. Review Professor Moriarty's Chicago caper and Annie Oakley's cocaine case. Uncover the lengths to which Chicago's long celebrated Mr. Pioneer Settler went to keep a slave. Discover why the Kennedy curves at Division Street and why the county jail saved a gallows for fifty years. From Death Valley Scotty's wild ride to the bowling ball that went around the world, John Schmidt provides a parade of Chicago originals."--Provided by publisher.
Unknown Chicago Tales
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Author : John R. Schmidt
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2021-04-26
Unknown Chicago Tales written by John R. Schmidt and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-26 with History categories.
Chicago's most famous stories tend to crowd out the competition and shout down alternate perspectives. Visit with the man who founded a 150-year-long Chicago political dynasty. Take a peek at some of the lesser-known Chicago film classics. Review Professor Moriarty's Chicago caper and Annie Oakley's cocaine case. Uncover the lengths to which Chicago's long-celebrated Mr. Pioneer Settler went to keep a slave. Discover why the Kennedy curves at Division Street and why the county jail saved a gallows for fifty years. From Death Valley Scotty's wild ride to the bowling ball that went around the world, John Schmidt provides a parade of Chicago originals.
Authentic Chicago
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Author : John R. Schmidt
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2023-10-16
Authentic Chicago written by John R. Schmidt and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-16 with History categories.
Discover the history most Chicagoans don't know---the real Chicago Way. The Windy City is full of forgotten landmarks and unusual stories that rarely get the benefit of a guided tour. Meet the African-American congressman who paved the way for Harold Washington and Barack Obama, the South Side Jewish girl who became the president of a South American country, and the visiting Romanian queen who charmed the city. Learn when Chicagoans were paid to smile, how furniture sprouts on Windy City streets after a blizzard and why Smell-O-Vision seemed like a good idea. From an in-city ski resort to the nation's greatest train robbery, author John R. Schmidt offers a glimpse of the overlooked scenery of Chicago's past.
Chicago Tales
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Author : Bill VanPatten
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-06
Chicago Tales written by Bill VanPatten and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06 with Fiction categories.
E. M. Forster once described Chicago as A fa?ºade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the fa?ºade, every type of dubiousness. In Chicago Talesa collection of fourteen short storiesfirst-time fiction author Bill VanPatten takes us behind the fa?ºade as he crafts a rich mosaic of characters caught in events ranging from the everyday to the extra-ordinary. On these pages we encounter a transvestite prostitute trapped in an abusive relationship, a Latina confronting her agnosticism when the Virgin Mary appears under an expressway (as she did in April 2005), an adolescent Irish girl whoin 1871 anti-immigrant Chicagodiscovers a terrible truth about her mother, a 1930s marriage of convenience that results in a husband-and-wife hit team, and a vodka-swigging atheist thrust into the company of a Bible-toting college student when they find themselves the last two persons alive in Chicago. VanPatten serves up these remarkable people and more, challenging the reader to not have sympathy, to not find some part of the characters conflicted lives with which to identify. In the end, Chicago Tales may be more about the universality of the human condition, set in the context of the city that British historian James Bryce described as Perhaps the most typically American place in America. Indeed, the characters inhabiting the pages of this book could exist just about anywhere. But they happen to live in Chicagodubiousness and all.
Chicago Tales
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Author : Paul Carroll
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Chicago Tales written by Paul Carroll and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with categories.
Chicago Stories
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language : en
Publisher:
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Discovering Classic Fantasy Fiction
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Author : Darrell Schweitzer
language : en
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 1996-12-01
Discovering Classic Fantasy Fiction written by Darrell Schweitzer and has been published by Wildside Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-12-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
The antecedents of fantasy literature extend back to the very beginnings of storytelling itself, but modern fantasy became recognizable as a distinct literary form only in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with the publication of the novels of William Morris and the short stories of Lord Dunsany. The emphasis by these writers and their successors on ideal and sometimes less than ideal places and peoples who exist only in a realm of pure imagination laid the foundation for later works by J. R. R. Tolkien and many others. Book jacket.
If You Eat You Never Die
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Author : Tony Romano
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-10-06
If You Eat You Never Die written by Tony Romano and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-06 with Fiction categories.
In a neighborhood on Chicago's outskirts, Fabio and Lucia Comingo have built a new American life—and struggle to comprehend the influences that distract and change their restless young sons. Through this masterful evocation of a time and place, Tony Romano, the acclaimed author of When the World Was Young, brings a first-generation Italian American family vividly and poignantly alive in closely related tales at once joyous, heartbreaking, and honest. Weaving two dozen stories into a stunning, cohesive family history, Romano gives readers hope for togetherness amid the painful generational cycle of loss and redemption—as children grow and learn, and decide which treasures of cultural inheritance they will cherish.
Science Fiction And Fantasy Literature Vol 1
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Author : R. Reginald
language : en
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 2010-09-01
Science Fiction And Fantasy Literature Vol 1 written by R. Reginald and has been published by Wildside Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-01 with Reference categories.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index.
Chicago Stories
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Author : John Miller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993-03
Chicago Stories written by John Miller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-03 with Fiction categories.
Hometown and host to talents as diverse as Richard Wright, David Mamet, Maya Angelou, Saul Bellow, and Mike Royko, Chicago boasts a rich tradition of writers who have helped shape our sense of the city even as the city informs their best work. It's "a writer's town . . . a fighter's town," according to Nelson Algren, and this anthology proves it. With a striking new cover, "Chicago Stories" collects the most evocative writing on the city, its gritty realism, and indomitable spirit.