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Tales of forgotten Chicago /

"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."--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lindberg, Richard C., 1953- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2020]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Twenty-One Tales of Old Chicago
  • The Brothers Booth
  • The Family O'Leary and the Rest of the Story
  • Four Butchers Trying to Go to Heaven
  • Elisha Gray and the Invention of the Telephone
  • Crime and Punishment and the First Policewoman
  • Where Time Began
  • The Scarlet Letter Verdict
  • The Lakefront Forever Open, Clear, and Free
  • The Haunting of the Schuttler House
  • Stars and Bars and the Symbol of a City
  • America's First Automobile Race
  • The Rouse Simmons and Chicago's First Christmas Tree
  • Wrigley Field before the Cubs
  • The Last Supper . . . Almost
  • The Leaning Tower Why?
  • A World's Fair of Railroading
  • The Windy City Songbird
  • How Richard J. Daley Saved the St. Patrick's Day Parade
  • He Ran for His Life
  • All In a Hard Day's Night
  • Humanity in the Heartland.