Calumet Beginnings

Author : Kenneth J. Schoon
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 025334218X

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Calumet Beginnings by Kenneth J. Schoon Pdf

The landscape of the Calumet, an area that sits astride the Indiana-Illinois state line at the southern end of Lake Michigan was shaped by the glaciers that withdrew toward the end of the last ice age--about 45,000 years ago. In the years since, many natural forces, including wind, running water, and the waves of Lake Michigan, have continued to shape the land. The lake's modern and ancient shorelines have served as Indian trails, stagecoach routes, highways, and sites that have evolved into many of the cities, towns, and villages of the Calumet area. People have also left their mark on the landscape: Indians built mounds; farmers filled in wetlands; governments commissioned ditches and canals to drain marshes and change the direction of rivers; sand was hauled from where it was plentiful to where it was needed for urban and industrial growth. These thousands of years of weather and movements of peoples have given the Calumet region its distinct climate and appeal.

Author : Kathleen A. Brosnan,William C. Barnett,Ann Durkin Keating
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780822987727

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City of Lake and Prairie by Kathleen A. Brosnan,William C. Barnett,Ann Durkin Keating Pdf

Known as the Windy City and the Hog Butcher to the World, Chicago has earned a more apt sobriquet—City of Lake and Prairie—with this compelling, innovative, and deeply researched environmental history. Sitting at the southwestern tip of Lake Michigan, one of the largest freshwater bodies in the world, and on the eastern edge of the tallgrass prairies that fill much of the North American interior, early residents in the land that Chicago now occupies enjoyed natural advantages, economic opportunities, and global connections over centuries, from the Native Americans who first inhabited the region to the urban dwellers who built a metropolis in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As one millennium ended and a new one began, these same features sparked a distinctive Midwestern environmentalism aimed at preserving local ecosystems. Drawing on its contributors’ interdisciplinary talents, this volume reveals a rich but often troubled landscape shaped by communities of color, workers, and activists as well as complex human relations with industry, waterways, animals, and disease.

Author : Kenneth J. Schoon
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253023407

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Shifting Sands by Kenneth J. Schoon Pdf

The location of one of the most diverse national parks in the United States, Northwest Indiana’s Calumet area is home to what was at one time widely known as the most polluted river in the entire country. Calumet's advantageous location at the southern tip of Lake Michigan encouraged broadscale conversion of Indiana wilderness into an industrial base that once included the world’s largest steel mill, largest cement works, and largest oil refinery. Thousands of tons of hazardous waste were dumped in and around the rivers with no thought for how it would affect the region’s water, land, and air. However, a remarkable change of attitude has resulted in the rejuvenation of an area once rich in natural diversity and the creation of a National Park that brings in more than two million visitors a year, contains beautiful greenways and blueways, and provides safe recreation for nearby residents. A community-wide effort, the cleanup of this area is nothing short of remarkable. In this Indiana bicentennial book, Ken Schoon introduces the reader to the Calumet area’s unique history and the residents who banded together to save it.

Author : Carlo Rotella
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226624174

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The World Is Always Coming to an End by Carlo Rotella Pdf

This portrait of Chicago’s South Shore and its people is “a thought-provoking deep dive into a neighborhood that remains in perpetual transition” (Kirkus Reviews). An urban neighborhood remakes itself every day—and unmakes itself, too. It is houses and stores and streets, but it’s also people—the people who make it their home, some eagerly, others grudgingly. A neighborhood can thrive or it can decline, and neighbors move in and move out. Sometimes they stay but withdraw behind fences and burglar alarms. If a neighborhood becomes no longer a place of sociability and street life, but of privacy indoors and fearful distrust outdoors, is it still a neighborhood? In the late 1960s and 1970s Carlo Rotella grew up in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood—a place of neat bungalow blocks and desolate commercial strips, and sharp, sometimes painful social contrasts. In the decades since, the hollowing out of the middle class has left residents confronting—or avoiding—each other across an expanding gap that makes it ever harder for them to recognize each other as neighbors. Rotella tells the stories that reveal how that happened—stories of deindustrialization; stories of gorgeous apartments with vistas onto Lake Michigan and of Section 8 housing vouchers held by the poor. At every turn, South Shore is a study in contrasts, shaped and reshaped over the past half-century by individual stories and larger waves of change that make it an exemplar of many American urban neighborhoods. Talking with current and former residents and looking carefully at the interactions of race and class, persistence and change, Rotella explores the tension between residents’ deep investment of feeling and resources in the physical landscape of South Shore and their hesitation to make a similar commitment to the community of neighbors living there. “Unlike any work of contemporary urban studies that I know. It combines elements of journalism, archival research, ethnography, and memoir in a study of South Shore—the South Side, Chicago, neighborhood in which Carlo grew up, in the 1970s. It’s at times lyrical, at times analytic, and always engaging.” —Eric Klinenberg, Public Books

Author : Curtis Vosti
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467109413

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Hammond by Curtis Vosti Pdf

The resilient city of Hammond is the place of Flick's triple dog dare, where John Dillinger never robbed a bank because of busy railroad crossings, and where an original National Football League team started in 1920. This city of 78,000 extends down from Lake Michigan in the shadow of neighboring Chicago along the state line. Hammond began in the late 19th century as a railroad town, industrial center, and commercial crossroads and remains famous through humorist Jean Shepherd's tales of Ralphie's quest for a BB gun in A Christmas Story. It has also been home to the secret behind Dairy Queen, groundbreaking CBS sportscaster Irv Cross, the Doublemint Twins, and, most deliciously, Phil Smidt's frog legs. Having shaken off the Rust Belt moniker in the 21st century, the Idaho-shaped city rests on storied foundations such as the First Baptist Church, the Ophelia Steen Center, the Hammond Public Library, a Purdue campus, and those darn railroads that still whistle through the Calumet Region nights.

Author : Amanda McMillan Lequieu
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231552790

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Who We Are Is Where We Are by Amanda McMillan Lequieu Pdf

Half a century ago, deindustrialization gutted blue-collar jobs in the American Midwest. But today, these places are not ghost towns. People still call these communities home, even as they struggle with unemployment, poverty, and other social and economic crises. Why do people remain in declining areas through difficult circumstances? What do their choices tell us about rootedness in a time of flux? Through the cases of the former steel manufacturing hub of southeast Chicago and a shuttered mining community in Iron County, Wisconsin, Amanda McMillan Lequieu traces the power and shifting meanings of the notion of home for people who live in troubled places. Building from on-the-ground observations of community life, archival research, and interviews with long-term residents, she shows how inhabitants of deindustrialized communities balance material constraints with deeply felt identities. McMillan Lequieu maps how the concept of home has been constructed and the ways it has been reshaped as these communities have changed. She considers how long-term residents navigate the tensions around belonging and making ends meet long after the departure of their community’s founding industry. Who We Are Is Where We Are links the past and the present, rural and urban, to shed new light on life in postindustrial communities. Beyond a story of Midwestern deindustrialization, this timely book provides broader insight into the capacious idea of home—how and where it is made, threatened, and renegotiated in a world fraught with change.

Author : Armas Kustaa Ensio Holmio
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Finnish Americans
ISBN : 0814329748

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History of the Finns in Michigan by Armas Kustaa Ensio Holmio Pdf

A history of the Finnish people in Michigan published in English for the first time.

Author : Dawn Bakken
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253056856

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Fighting Hoosiers by Dawn Bakken Pdf

Fighting Hoosiers: Indiana in Two World Wars tells the compelling, heartbreaking, and breathtaking stories of some of the hundreds of thousands of Hoosiers who served their country during the First and Second World Wars. Drawn from the rich holdings of the Indiana Magazine of History, a journal of state and midwestern history published since 1905, the collection includes original diaries, letters and memoirs, as well as research essays—all of them focused on Hoosiers in the two world wars. Readers will meet Alex Arch, a Hungarian-born immigrant who was the first American to fire a shot in World War I; Maude Essig, a nurse serving with the American Red Cross in wartime France; Kenneth Baker, a soldier in the Army Signal Corps, who crawled across French fields (sometimes over and around dead bodies) to lay phone lines for military communications; and Bernard Rice, a combat medic who witnessed the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp in 1945. Indiana's brave men and women like these have served with distinction in the armed forces since the earliest days of the Indiana Territory. Fighting Hoosiers offers a compelling glimpse at some of their remarkable stories.

Author : Gavin Van Horn,Dave Aftandilian
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226192895

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City Creatures by Gavin Van Horn,Dave Aftandilian Pdf

"Published in collaboration with The Center for Humans and Nature"--Title page verso.

Author : Kenneth J. Schoon
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467149860

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Pullman: The Man, the Company, the Historical Park by Kenneth J. Schoon Pdf

George Pullman's legacy lies in the town that bears his name. As one of the first thoroughly planned model industrial communities, it was designed to give the comforts of a permanent home to the employees who built America's most elegant form of overnight railroad travel. But the town was more than just a residential wing of sleeper car manufacturing; its 1894 railroad strike led to the national Labor Day holiday. In the early twentieth century, the Pullman Company became the country's largest employer of African Americans, who then formed the nation's first successful Black labor union. Author Kenneth Schoon revisits Pullman's monumental history and the lessons it continues to provide.

Author : John William Nelson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469675213

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Muddy Ground by John William Nelson Pdf

In early North America, carrying watercraft—usually canoes—and supplies across paths connecting one body of water to another was essential in the establishment of both Indigenous and European mobility in the continent's interior. The Chicago portage, a network of overland canoe routes that connected the Great Lakes and Mississippi watersheds, grew into a crossroads of interaction as Indigenous and European people vied for its control during early contact and colonization. John William Nelson charts the many peoples that traversed and sought power along Chicago's portage paths from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries, including Indigenous Illinois traders, French explorers, Jesuit missionaries, Meskwaki warriors, British officers, Anishinaabe headmen, and American settlers. Nelson compellingly demonstrates that even deep within the interior, power relations fluctuated based on the control of waterways and local environmental knowledge. Pushing beyond political and cultural explanations for Indigenous-European relations in the borderlands of North America, Nelson places environmental and geographic realities at the center of the history of Indigenous Chicago, offering a new explanation for how the United States gained control of the North American interior through a two-pronged subjugation of both the landscapes and peoples of the continent.

Author : Kenneth J. Schoon
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780253007988

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Dreams of Duneland by Kenneth J. Schoon Pdf

The towering sand dunes along Lake Michigan not far from Chicago are one of the most unexpected natural features of Indiana. Dreams of Duneland is a beautifully illustrated introduction to the Dunes region, its history, and future prospects. This area of shifting sands is also a place of savanna, wetland, prairie, and forest that is home to a wide diversity of plant and animal species. The preserved area of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore sits by residential communities, businesses, and cultural attractions, evidence of a long history of competition for the land among farmers, fur traders, industrialists, conservationists, and urban and recreational planners. With more than 400 stunning images, the book brings to life the remarkable story of this extraordinary place.

Author : Joseph S. Pete
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467142861

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Lost Hammond, Indiana by Joseph S. Pete Pdf

Series statement taken from publisher's website.

Author : Allan Frank Schneider,Gordon S. Fraser
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813722511

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Late Quaternary History of the Lake Michigan Basin by Allan Frank Schneider,Gordon S. Fraser Pdf

Author : Patrice Madura Ward-Steinman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781439641125

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Madura's Danceland by Patrice Madura Ward-Steinman Pdf

Danceland! For hundreds of thousands of couples from all around the Calumet region of Northwest Indiana and Chicago’s East Side, the name alone conjures up memories of dancing and romancing to thousands of live big bands. Opening night in October 1929 drew over 2,000 people to the beautiful ballroom with the famous maplewood dance floor. It continued to thrive with live music four nights a week and 12 months a year throughout the Big Band Era, despite the Great Depression and World War II, and into the rock ‘n roll era, until it burned to the ground on Sunday morning, July 23, 1967. Almost everyone’s marriage in the region began with a dance at Madura’s Danceland. In the 38 years Danceland was open, it had only two owners and managers, Michael (Mike) Madura Sr. and Michael (Mick) J. Madura Jr., father and son. It remained a family business for all those years, with three generations of the Madura family having worked there in many capacities.