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Author : Richard Guzman
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 080932704X
Ranging from 1861 to the present day, an anthology of works by many of Chicago's leading black writers includes poetry, fiction, drama, essays, journalism, and historical and social commentary.
Author : Melvin G. Holli,Paul M. Green
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0738563730
A View from City Hall: Mid-Century to Millennium offers readers a richly detailed, visual road map of Chicago as viewed from the mayor's office in City Hall. Within these pages are emblematic images of Chicago evolving from blue-ribbon Mayor Martin Kennelly's 1947-1955 administration through his successors, including the city's first and second black mayors, the city's first female mayor, the city's first non-Irish mayor since 1933, and finally, the Daley "double," Richard J. and Richard M. Witness the excitement as City Hall rolls out the welcome wagon for traveling kings and queens, dignitaries, and counts, as well as figures of great historic import, including Queen Elizabeth, Princess Diana, Mikhail Gorbachev, Bishop Tutu, and Frank Sinatra. View rare scenes of the "builder" mayor tradition and the construction of such architectural triumphs as the Sears Tower, which was then the world's-tallest building. With over 200 photographs accompanied by informative captions, this volume highlights a variety of Chicago's ethnic festivals, parades, and political campaigns, skillfully bringing each scene to life.
Author : Robert Tabern,Kandace Tabern
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Railroad stations
ISBN : 9781300710684
Author : Robert Tabern,Kandace Tabern
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780359890194
"Outside the Rails: A Rail Route Guide from Chicago to Kansas City" is a 334-page route guidebook for passengers traveling Amtrak's Southwest Chief train through Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri. Learn interesting facts about the people, place, and history passing by outside the window between Chicago and Kansas City. This book was written by Robert and Kandace Tabern with the Midwest Rail Rangers.
Author : Luke Martin
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Commuting
ISBN : 9781329693012
Contains cartoons about living, working, and commuting on Chicago's L train. Also includes a map of the CTA (Chicago Transit Authority) train routes, and a collection of photographs by Michael Ballard illustrating life on the L.
Author : Richard Peck
Publisher : Puffin Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780141303529
A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.
Author : The Caxton Club
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226468648
Despite its rough-and-tumble image, Chicago has long been identified as a city where books take center stage. In fact, a volume by A. J. Liebling gave the Second City its nickname. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle arose from the midwestern capital’s most infamous industry. The great Chicago Fire led to the founding of the Chicago Public Library. The city has fostered writers such as Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Chicago’s literary magazines The Little Review and Poetry introduced the world to Eliot, Hemingway, Joyce, and Pound. The city’s robust commercial printing industry supported a flourishing culture of the book. With this beautifully produced collection, Chicago’s rich literary tradition finally gets its due. Chicago by the Book profiles 101 landmark publications about Chicago from the past 170 years that have helped define the city and its image. Each title—carefully selected by the Caxton Club, a venerable Chicago bibliophilic organization—is the focus of an illustrated essay by a leading scholar, writer, or bibliophile. Arranged chronologically to show the history of both the city and its books, the essays can be read in order from Mrs. John H. Kinzie’s 1844 Narrative of the Massacre of Chicago to Sara Paretsky’s 2015 crime novel Brush Back. Or one can dip in and out, savoring reflections on the arts, sports, crime, race relations, urban planning, politics, and even Mrs. O’Leary’s legendary cow. The selections do not shy from the underside of the city, recognizing that its grit and graft have as much a place in the written imagination as soaring odes and boosterism. As Neil Harris observes in his introduction, “Even when Chicagoans celebrate their hearth and home, they do so while acknowledging deep-seated flaws.” At the same time, this collection heartily reminds us all of what makes Chicago, as Norman Mailer called it, the “great American city.” With essays from, among others, Ira Berkow, Thomas Dyja, Ann Durkin Keating, Alex Kotlowitz, Toni Preckwinkle, Frank Rich, Don Share, Carl Smith, Regina Taylor, Garry Wills, and William Julius Wilson; and featuring works by Saul Bellow, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sandra Cisneros, Clarence Darrow, Erik Larson, David Mamet, Studs Terkel, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Frank Lloyd Wright, and many more.
Author : Michael Dear
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0761920951
From Chicago to L.A. begins the task of defining an alternative agenda for urban studies and examines the case for shifting the focus of urban studies from Chicago to Los Angeles. The authors, experienced scholars from a variety of disciplines, examine: The concepts that have blocked our understanding of Southern California cities The imaginative structures that people have been using to understand and explain Los Angeles The utility of the "Los Angeles School" of urbanism
Author : Kate L. Turabian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : OCLC:29688636
Author : University of Chicago. Press
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Authorship
ISBN : 0226104044
Searchable electronic version of print product with fully hyperlinked cross-references.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112089395013
Author : Caitlin Zaloom
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226978130
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Author : Whet Moser
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781789140323
Chicago has been called the “most American of cities” and the “great American city.” Not the biggest or the most powerful, nor the richest, prettiest, or best, but the most American. How did it become that? And what does it even mean? At its heart, Chicago is America’s great hub. And in this book, Chicago magazine editor and longtime Chicagoan Whet Moser draws on Chicago’s social, urban, cultural, and often scandalous history to reveal how the city of stinky onions grew into the great American metropolis it is today. Chicago began as a trading post, which grew into a market for goods from the west, sprouting the still-largest rail hub in America. As people began to trade virtual representations of those goods—futures—the city became a hub of finance and law. And as academics studied the city’s growth and its economy, it became a hub of intellect, where the University of Chicago’s pioneering sociologists shaped how cities at home and abroad understood themselves. Looking inward, Moser explores how Chicago thinks of itself, too, tracing the development of and current changes in its neighborhoods. From Boystown to Chinatown, Edgewater to Englewood, the Ukrainian Village to Little Village, Chicago is famous for them—and infamous for the segregation between them. With insight sure to enlighten both residents and anyone lucky enough to visit the City of Big Shoulders, Moser offers an informed local’s perspective on everything from Chicago’s enduring paradoxes to tips on its most interesting sights and best eats. An affectionate, beautifully illustrated urban portrait, his book takes us from the very beginnings of Chicago as an idea—a vision in the minds of the region’s first explorers—to the global city it has become.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1602 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : American newspapers
ISBN : WISC:89064891187
Author : Lawrence Okrent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN : 097886638X
A pictorial history, from an aerial perspective, for the far-reaching change that has occurred in Chicago and its region in the span of a single generation, between 1985 and 2010. It serves as a reminder that Chicago welcomes change, celebrates change and regards change as one of its distinguishing features.
