A History Lovers Guide To Chicago
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Author | : Greg Borzo |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2021-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439673985 |
Founded next to a great lake and a sluggish river, Chicago grew faster than any city ever has. Splendid department stores created modern retailing, and the skyscraper was invented to handle the needs of booming businesses in an increasingly concentrated downtown. The stockyards fed the world, and railroads turned the city into the nation's transportation hub. A great fire leveled the city, but Chicago rose again. Glorious museums, churches and theaters sprang up. Explore a missile site that became a bird sanctuary and discover how Chicago's first public library came to be located in an abandoned water tank. Follow the steps of business leaders and society dames, anarchists and army generals, and learn whose ashes were surreptitiously sprinkled over Wrigley Field. Combining years of research and countless miles of guided tours, author Greg Borzo pursues Chicago's sweeping historical arc through its fascinating nooks and crannies.
Author | : Greg Borzo |
Publisher | : History Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2021-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781540250438 |
Founded next to a great lake and a sluggish river, Chicago grew faster than any city ever has. Splendid department stores created modern retailing, and the skyscraper was invented to handle the needs of booming businesses in an increasingly concentrated downtown. The stockyards fed the world, and railroads turned the city into the nation's transportation hub. A great fire leveled the city, but Chicago rose again. Glorious museums, churches and theaters sprang up. Explore a missile site that became a bird sanctuary and discover how Chicago's first public library came to be located in an abandoned water tank. Follow the steps of business leaders and society dames, anarchists and army generals, and learn whose ashes were surreptitiously sprinkled over Wrigley Field. Combining years of research and countless miles of guided tours, author Greg Borzo pursues Chicago's sweeping historical arc through its fascinating nooks and crannies.
Author | : Christiane Bird |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1994-04-20 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
This completely updated guide tells readers where to find everything from the current music scene to major jazz/blues landmarks in 26 American cities and the Mississippi Delta. Includes city-by-city listings for clubs, events, radio stations, anecdotes from club owners and performers, and jazz/blues history. Photos.
Author | : Ann Durkin Keating |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2008-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226428834 |
""Which neighborhood?" It's one of the first questions you're asked when you move to Chicago. And the answer you give - be it Bucktown, Bronzeville, or Bridgeport - can give your inquisitor a good idea of who you are, especially in a metropolis with so many different neighborhoods and suburbs to choose from." "Many of us know little of the neighborhoods beyond those where we work, play, and live. This is particularly true in Chicagoland, a region that spans over 4,400 square miles and is home to more than 9.5 million residents. Now, historian Ann Durkin Keating's compact guide, drawn largely from the bestselling Encyclopedia of Chicago, brings the history of Chicago neighborhoods to life."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : David M. Solzman |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Provides a guidebook to the river and its waterways. Explores the physical character as well as the natural history of the river.
Author | : Marilyn J. Appleberg |
Publisher | : Scribner Paper Fiction |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Chicago (Ill.) |
ISBN | : 9780020971900 |
Author | : |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2016-08-21 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9781333307110 |
Excerpt from Chicago: An Instructive and Entertaining History of a Wonderful City; With an Useful Stranger's Guide The stories and sketches found in this volume furnish an interesting, instructive, and exhaustive history of the most remarkable city in the world. They have been care fully gathered from living men, many of Whom are not yet old, whose early life on Chicago soil antedates any single building now standing in the great city! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : John Joseph Flinn |
Publisher | : Chicago, The Standard guide Company [1892] |
Total Pages | : 846 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : Chicago (Ill.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Judith Testa |
Publisher | : Northern Illinois University Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2012-09-15 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1501756745 |
No city but Florence contains such an intense concentration of art produced in such a short span of time. The sheer number and proximity of works of painting, sculpture, and architecture in Florence can be so overwhelming that Florentine hospitals treat hundreds of visitors each year for symptoms brought on by trying to see them all, an illness famously identified with the French author Stendhal. While most guidebooks offer only brief descriptions of a large number of works, with little discussion of the historical background, Judith Testa gives a fresh perspective on the rich and brilliant art of the Florentine Renaissance in An Art Lover's Guide to Florence. Concentrating on a number of the greatest works, by such masters as Botticelli and Michelangelo, Testa explains each piece in terms of what it meant to the people who produced it and for whom they made it, deftly treating the complex interplay of politics, sex, and religion that were involved in the creation of those works. With Testa as a guide, armchair travelers and tourists alike will delight in the fascinating world of Florentine art and history.
Author | : Greg Borzo |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2017-05-10 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0809335794 |
""Chicago's Fabulous Fountains" presents in words and pictures many of the more than one hundred outdoor public fountains in Chicago, informing readers about their origin and place in the city"--