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."--
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
[2020]
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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.