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Flickering empire : how Chicago invented the U.S. film industry
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ISBN: 9780231174480 9780231174497 9780231850797 Year: 2015 Publisher: London Wallflower Press

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Sacred smokes
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ISBN: 0826359914 9780826359919 9780826359902 Year: 2018 Publisher: Albuquerque

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This dark, compelling, occasionally inappropriate, and often hilarious linked story collection introduces a character who defies all stereotypes about urban life and Indians.

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Tales of forgotten Chicago
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ISBN: 0809337827 9780809337828 9780809337811 Year: 2020 Publisher: Carbondale

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"This entertaining collection of twenty-one stories of people and places in Chicago, from roughly the time of the Civil War to the1960s, is a potpourri of personalities, human foibles, heartbreak, and triumph."--

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Lines of activity: performance, historiography, Hull-House domesticity
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ISBN: 0472111124 Year: 2000 Publisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. University of Michigan Press

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The gold coast and the slum: a sociological study of Chicago's near north side
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ISBN: 0226989445 Year: 1976 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. University of Chicago Press

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The Green Hornet Street Car Disaster
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ISBN: 1609090586 9781609090586 9781501757754 150175775X 9780875804545 0875804543 0875807321 Year: 2012 Publisher: Ithaca Cornell University Press

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Chicago (Ill.) --- History


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Graceland Cemetery
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ISBN: 0252053427 9780252053429 9780252086502 Year: 2022 Publisher: Champaign, Illinois

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"One of Chicago's landmark attractions, Graceland Cemetery chronicles the city's sprawling history through the stories of its people. Local historian and Graceland tour guide Adam Selzer presents ten walking tours covering almost the entirety of the cemetery grounds. While nodding to Graceland's famous figures, Selzer also leads readers past the vaults, obelisks, and other markers that call attention to less recognized Chicagoans like: Jewel Lafontant-Mankarious, the first Black woman shortlisted for the United States Supreme Court; Engineer and architect Fazlur Khan, the Bangladeshi American who revived the city's skyscraper culture; The still-mysterious Kate Warn, the United States' first female private detective; Cough syrup mogul Peter Fahrney, whose alcohol-rich product became a Prohibition favorite. Filled with photographs and including detailed maps of each tour route, Graceland Cemetery is an insider's guide to one of Chicago's great outdoor destinations for city lore and history"--

Chicago : growth of a metropolis
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ISBN: 0226512738 9780226512730 9780226512747 Year: 1969 Publisher: Chicago: University of Chicago press,

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This is the story of Chicago and how it grew. In a little over a century it rose from a mere frontier outpost to become one of the great cities of the world. No single book can possibly encompass the immense scope of this development or convey the endless diversity of the life of Chicago's people. But with the help of the camera it is possible to capture many dimensions of this extraordinary story. This volume, however, which comprises over 1.000 pictures and 50 maps, tries to do more than show physical development - it attempts to suggest how the city expanded and why it looks the way it does. Because it asks different questions, this book differs markedly from other "pictorial histories" of American cities. Instead of emphasizing society and customs, this volume deals with the physical conditions of life. In place of the conventional interest in "founding fathers" and leading families, it is more concerned with street scenes and ordinary people. Without neglecting downtown, it also reaches into the residential areas and neighborhood shopping centers. Moreover, this volume is concerned with suburbs and "satellite" towns as well as the historic city.


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City of lake and prairie : Chicago's environmental history
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ISBN: 0822987724 9780822987727 9780822946311 0822946319 9780822966739 0822966735 Year: 2020 Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press,

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"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"--


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Before the ivy
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ISBN: 0252096657 9780252080289 9780252096655 0252080289 9780252096655 Year: 2015 Publisher: Urbana

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