Chicago Made

Author : Robert Lewis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226477046

Get Book

Chicago Made by Robert Lewis Pdf

From the lumberyards and meatpacking factories of the Southwest Side to the industrial suburbs that arose near Lake Calumet at the turn of the twentieth century, manufacturing districts shaped Chicago’s character and laid the groundwork for its transformation into a sprawling metropolis. Approaching Chicago’s story as a reflection of America’s industrial history between the Civil War and World War II, Chicago Made explores not only the well-documented workings of centrally located city factories but also the overlooked suburbanization of manufacturing and its profound effect on the metropolitan landscape. Robert Lewis documents how manufacturers, attracted to greenfield sites on the city’s outskirts, began to build factory districts there with the help of an intricate network of railroad owners, real estate developers, financiers, and wholesalers. These immense networks of social ties, organizational memberships, and financial relationships were ultimately more consequential, Lewis demonstrates, than any individual achievement. Beyond simply giving Chicago businesses competitive advantages, they transformed the economic geography of the region. Tracing these transformations across seventy-five years, Chicago Made establishes a broad new foundation for our understanding of urban industrial America.

Author : Austin Weber
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781439666333

Get Book

Made in Chicago by Austin Weber Pdf

For much of the 20th century, the Chicagoland area was a manufacturing mecca due to its central geographic location and ready access to rail and water transportation. The city and suburbs mass-produced a wide range of products, including appliances, bicycles, electronics, furniture, globes, pianos, pinball machines, radios, railroad cars, sporting goods, telephones, televisions, typewriters, tools, toys, tractors, and watches. This book traces the origins of manufacturing in Chicago and explores the city's proud history of making steel and shaping metal. It also provides extensive coverage of the golden age of manufacturing in the region, including Chicago's unique contribution to the arsenal of democracy during World War II. The nostalgic journey includes stops at famous Chicago companies from the past, such as Bell & Howell, International Harvester, Pullman, Schwinn, Stewart Warner, Sunbeam, Western Electric, and Zenith.

Author : Monica Eng,David Hammond
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780252054068

Get Book

Made in Chicago by Monica Eng,David Hammond Pdf

A BookRiot Most Anticipated Travel Book of 2023 Italian beef and hot dogs get the headlines. Cutting-edge cuisine and big-name chefs get the Michelin stars. But Chicago food shows its true depth in classic dishes conceived in the kitchens of immigrant innovators, neighborhood entrepreneurs, and mom-and-pop visionaries. Monica Eng and David Hammond draw on decades of exploring the city’s food landscape to serve up thirty can’t-miss eats found in all corners of Chicago. From Mild Sauce to the Jibarito and from Taffy Grapes to Steak and Lemonade, Eng and Hammond present stories of the people and places behind each dish while illuminating how these local favorites reflect the multifaceted history of the city and the people who live there. Each entry provides all the information you need to track down whatever sounds good and selected recipes even let you prepare your own Flaming Saganaki or Akutagawa. Generously illustrated with full-color photos, Made in Chicago provides locals and visitors alike with loving profiles of a great food city’s defining dishes.

Author : Chloe Johnston,Coya Paz Brownrigg
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810138797

Get Book

Ensemble-Made Chicago by Chloe Johnston,Coya Paz Brownrigg Pdf

Featuring the work of: About Face Youth Theatre • Albany Park Theater Project • Barrel of Monkeys • Every house has a door • FEMelanin • 500 Clown • Free Street Theater • Honey Pot Performance • Lookingglass Theater • The Neo-Futurists • The Second City • Southside Ignoramus Quartet • Teatro Luna • Walkabout Theater • Young Fugitives Ensemble-Made Chicago brings together a wide range of Chicago theater companies to share strategies for cocreating performance. Cocreated theater breaks down the traditional roles of writer, director, and performer in favor of a more egalitarian approach in which all participants contribute to the creation of original material. Each chapter offers a short history of a Chicago company, followed by detailed exercises that have been developed and used by that company to build ensemble and generate performances. Companies included range in age from two to fifty years, represent different Chicago neighborhoods, and reflect both the storefront tradition and established cultural institutions. The book pays special attention to the ways the fight for social justice has shaped the development of this aesthetic in Chicago. Assembled from interviews and firsthand observations, Ensemble-Made Chicago is written in a lively and accessible style and will serve as an invaluable guide for students and practitioners alike, as well as an important archive of Chicago’s vibrant ensemble traditions. Readers will find new creative methods to enrich their own practice and push their work in new directions.

Author : Joe Allen
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781608461264

Get Book

People Wasn't Made to Burn by Joe Allen Pdf

The long-buried story of a Chicagoan's struggle for justice after four of hischildren perished in a tragic fire.

Author : Robert Shackleton
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9783849684822

Get Book

The Book of Chicago by Robert Shackleton Pdf

In his facile, chatty way the author tells of the city's marvelous growth, taking us from the Loop through that Olympus of Chicago, the Lake Shore Drive to Oak Park and South Chicago. The landmarks of the early settlers and the “beauty spots” of the modern city are all described in such a manner that they cannot fail to appeal to even the most conservative of Easterners. Mr. Shackleton in all his books of the cities, shows each one distinctly; its characteristics, institutions, literary traditions, landmarks, and its people. Nothing is too small for him to chronicle—their habits of speech, their eating, ancestor worship. In each city he manages to discover many odd corners not found by the usual sightseer. His is a sympathetic, clear-eyed, often humorous interpretation of the city in each case.

Author : Gerald D. Suttles
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1990-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0226781933

Get Book

The Man-Made City by Gerald D. Suttles Pdf

With its extraordinary uniform street grid, its magnificent lake-side park, and innovative architecture and public sculpture, Chicago is one of the most planned cities of the modern era. Yet over the past few decades Chicago has come to epitomize some of the worst evils of urban decay: widespread graft and corruption, political stalemates, troubled race relations, and economic decline. Broad-shouldered boosterism can no longer disguise the city's failure to keep pace with others, its failure to attract new "sunrise" industries and world-class events. For Chicago, as for other rust-belt cities, new ways of planning and managing the urban environment are now much more than civic beautification; they are the means to survival. Gerald D. Suttles here offers an irreverent, highly critical guide to both the realities and myths of land-use planning and development in Chicago from 1976 through 1987.

Author : Leila Sales
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226571980

Get Book

We Made Uranium! by Leila Sales Pdf

Item #176: A fire drill. No, not an exercise in which occupants of a building practice leaving the building safely. A drill which safely emits a bit of fire, the approximate shape and size of a drill bit. Item #74: Enter a lecture class in street clothes. Receive loud phone call. Shout “I NEED TO GO, THE CITY NEEDS ME!” Remove street clothes to reveal superhero apparel. Run out for the good of the land. Item #293: Hypnotizing a chicken seems easy, but if the Wikipedia article on the practice is to be believed, debate on the optimal method is heated. Do some trials on a real chicken and submit a report . . . for science of course. Item #234: A walking, working, people-powered but preferably wind-powered Strandbeest. Item #188: Fattest cat. Points per pound. The University of Chicago’s annual Scavenger Hunt (or “Scav”) is one of the most storied college traditions in America. Every year, teams of hundreds of competitors scramble over four days to complete roughly 350 challenges. The tasks range from moments of silliness to 1,000-mile road trips, and they call on participants to fully embrace the absurd. For students it is a rite of passage, and for the surrounding community it is a chance to glimpse the lighter side of a notoriously serious university. We Made Uranium! shares the stories behind Scav, told by participants and judges from the hunt’s more than thirty-year history. The twenty-three essays range from the shockingly successful (a genuine, if minuscule, nuclear reaction created in a dorm room) to the endearing failures (it’s hard to build a carwash for a train), and all the chicken hypnotisms and permanent tattoos in between. Taken together, they show how a scavenger hunt once meant for blowing off steam before finals has grown into one of the most outrageous annual traditions at any university. The tales told here are absurd, uplifting, hilarious, and thought-provoking—and they are all one hundred percent true.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electric engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015049212809

Get Book

Western Electrician by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1086 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:102745453

Get Book

Farm Implement News by Anonim Pdf

Author : Professor Geoffrey Harcourt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136516818

Get Book

On Political Economists and Political Economy by Professor Geoffrey Harcourt Pdf

Included in this volume are papers which are recognized as some of the foundations of post-Keynesian Economics, analysing problems set in historical time and starting from 'real world' observations. The book reflects Geoff Harcourt's contribution to economic debate over more than three decades. It also includes intellectual biographies of some of the most prominent and leading unorthodox economists, such as Kenneth Boulding, Eric Russell and Lorie Tarshis.

Author : Robert Klein Engler
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780557205929

Get Book

What We Found When We Came Home by Robert Klein Engler Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Almanacs, American
ISBN : NWU:35556017929274

Get Book

The World Almanac and Encyclopedia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Western Society of Engineers (Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015073249966

Get Book

Journal of the Western Society of Engineers by Western Society of Engineers (Chicago, Ill.) Pdf

Author : Josiah Seymour Currey
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9783849686949

Get Book

Chicago: Its History and its Builders, Volume 4 by Josiah Seymour Currey Pdf

Maybe there has never been a more comprehensive work on the history of Chicago than the five volumes written by Josiah S. Currey - and possibly there will never be. Without making this work a catalogue or a mere list of dates or distracting the reader and losing his attention, he builds a bridge for every historically interested reader. The history of Windy City is not only particularly interesting to her citizens, but also important for the understanding of the history of the West. This volume is number four out of five and features hundreds of biographies of the most important Chicago citizens.