History of the Great Fires in Chicago and the West... With a History of the Rise and Progress of Chicago, the "young Giant". To which is Appended a Record of the Great Fires in the Past
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Creating Chicago's North Shore
Historian Michael H. Ebner explains the origins and evolution of the North Shore as a distinctive region. At the same time, he tells the paradoxical story of how these suburbs still preserve their distinctly separate identities.
Chicago Católico
Deborah E. Kanter tells the story of neighborhood change and rebirth in Chicago's Mexican American communities.
The New Chicago
In this wide-ranging book, twenty scholars, journalists, and activists, relying on data from the 2000 census and many years of direct experience with the city, identify five converging forces in American urbanization which are reshaping ...
Chicago
Chicago grew amazingly fast, becoming the second largest city in the US in 1890. Chicago itself and its immediate surrounding area was also the site of agriculture, both producing food for the city and for shipment elsewhere.
Stories and Sketches of Chicago an Interesting, Entertaining, and Instructive Sketch History of the Wonderful City "by the Sea"
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
The Development of Chicago and Vicinity as a Manufacturing Center Prior to 1880 ...
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Never a City So Real
Never a City So Real is not so much a tour of a place as a chronicle of its soul, its lifeblood. It is a tour of the people of Chicago, who have been the author's guides into this city's—and in a broader sense, this country's—heart.
Murder & Mayhem on Chicago's North Side
... Chicago Assassin. Nashville, TN: Cumberland House, 2008. Sifakis, Carl. Encyclopedia of American Crime. New York: Facts on File, 1982 ... Chicago Times Chicago Tribune NEWSPAPERS ABOUT THE AUTHOR Troy Taylor is the author of more.
Chicago by Gaslight
This book revises the picture of the glittering Chicago of impressive mansions and museums; it exposes the city's corrupt underbelly and the realities of life in an age which is often assumed to have been simpler and more moral than ours.
Murder & Mayhem on Chicago's West Side
... Chicago Confidential. New York: Crown Publishers, 1950. Landesco, John. Organized Crime in Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968. Lesy, Michael. Murder City. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2007. Lewis, Lloyd, and Henry ...
Walking Chicago's Coast
... Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. Dubkin, Leonard. My Secret Places: One Man's Love Affair with Nature in the City. New York: David McKay Co., 1972. Dyja, Thomas. The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream. New ...
Dictionary Catalogue of the Illinois State Library
... Chicago . 1908 . Cook , Frederick Francis . Bygone days in Chicago : recollections of the " Garden city " of the sixties . 11. 8 ° . McClurg . 1910 . Cooley , L. E. Lakes and Gulf waterway as related to the Chicago sanitary problem ...
Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of the State of Illinois
... Chicago . Chicago . Chicago . Hesperia ....... Chicago . Chicago Humboldt Park .. Chicago . ( Kensington ) Kensington . Chicago ... ( Auburn Park ) . Auburn Park .. Chicago . Chicago . Chicago . Chicago .. Ben Hur Blair .... Blaney ...
Annual Report of the Trade and Commerce of Chicago for the Year Ended December 31 ...
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5000 Sheet Steel Products & who Make Them
... Chicago . Chicago Hardware Foundry Co. , Thomas Bldg . , North Chi- cago . Chicago Metal Mfg . Co. , 37th and S. Rockwell Sts . , Chi- cago . Chicago Steel Grave Vault Co. , Chicago Heights . Chicago Tool Company , 542-44 W. Jackson ...
American Newspaper Directory
978 Chicago , Christian Oracle . 1230 Chicago , Chronicle ... 1124 Chicago , Citizen .... 1432 Chicago , Commercial Bulletin .. 1296 Chicago , Conservator . 1382 Chicago , Council and Our Country and 1488 Village Schools . 1104 ...
The Governors of Illinois and the Mayors of Chicago
The Governors of Illinois and the Mayors of Chicago provides biographies for the states most important power brokers.