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Ethnic Chicago

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book, Jones
Date: 
1981
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The ethnic odyssey / Melvin G. Holli, Peter D'A. Jones -- Cultural pluralism -- Irish Chicago: church, homeland, politics, and class: the shaping of an ethnic group, 1870-1900 / Michael F. Funchion -- The Jews of Chicago: from Shtetl to suburb / Irving Cutler -- Greek survival in Chicago: the role of ethnic education, 1890-1980 / Andrew T. Kopan -- Ukrainian Chicago: the making of a nationality group in America / Myron Bohdon Kuropas -- Suburban Italians: Chicago Heights, 1890-1975 / Dominic Candeloro.
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English
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0802818072
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John Lavalie

The Great American Fair: the World's Columbian Exposition and American Culture

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book, Badger
Date: 
1979
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Preface -- Prologue: Opening day -- Introduction: The Great World's Fair and Victorial Culture -- pt. 1. THE BACKGROUND -- The Crystal Palace and the origins of the institution -- The growth and character of the institution -- America and the Great World's Fairs -- pt. 2. THE SETTING -- Energy and uncertainty -- The representative city -- pt. 3. THE GREAT FAIR -- Genesis and growth of the idea -- Organization -- The site, the plan, and the design -- Finance and promotion -- Dedication day -- Final preparations -- The World's Congress -- The exhibits -- The midway -- pt. 4. THE CULTURE -- Achievement and influence -- A confusion of symbols -- The vision of unity -- Epilogue -- APPENDICES -- A) The World's Fairs -- B) U.S. appropriations to exhibitions and fairs -- C) The act creating the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 -- D) Preliminary and final classification system -- E) The Presidential proclamation -- F) Memorandum of December 9, 1890 -- G) Burnham's letter of December 13, 1890 -- H) A financial balance sheet.
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0882296922
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John Lavalie

Chicago: City on the Make

Catalog Number: 
book, Algren
Date: 
1987
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Introduction / by Studs Terkel -- The hustlers -- Are you a Christian? -- The silver-colored yesterday -- Love is for barflies -- Bright faces opf tomorrow -- No more giants -- Nobody knows where O'Connor went -- Afterword : the people of these parts : a survey of modern mid-American letters.
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0226013847
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John Lavalie

Mundelein Voices: the Women's College Experience, 1930-1991

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book, Harrington
Date: 
2000
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Preface / Carolyn Farrell -- Creating a College: The Foundation of Mundelein, 1929-1931 / Mary DeCock -- Mundelein Skyscraper: Building Space for Women / Prudence A. Moylan -- Memories of Mundelein, 1933-1937 / Jane Malkemus Goodnow -- O This Learning, What a Thing It Is! Remembering Sister Mary Leola Oliver, B.V.M. / Mercedes McCambridge -- Life Flows through the Dream / Blanche Marie Gallagher -- Tale of Two Mundeleins, 1947-1951 / Mary Alma Sullivan -- Working with the People: The Religious Studies Department, 1957-1991 / Carol Frances Jegen -- Class Apart: B.V.M. Sister Students at Mundelein College, 1957-1971 / Ann M. Harrington -- New Dean Sweeps Clean, or Adventures with the Academic Dean / Gloria Callaci -- Remembering 1962-1969 / Joan Frances Crowley -- Golden Age of Mundelein College: A Memoir, 1962-1969 / Norbert Hruby -- Progressive Bunch, 1969-1979: An Interview with David Orr / Elizabeth Fraterrigo -- "Damned Average Raisers": The Continuing Education Program / Marianne M. Littau -- Joy of Learning, 1987-1994 / Tomi Shimojima -- Reinventing Mundelein: Birthing the Weekend College, 1974 / Mary Griffin -- College on the Curve, 1967-1997 / Michael Fortune -- Mundelein College: Catholic Substance, Ecumenical Ethos, 1976-1991 / Stephen A. Schmidt -- Reminiscences of a Mundelein Junkie / David Block -- Moving West of Raynor, or "What's a Good Lutheran Girl Like You Doing at a Catholic Graduate School Like This?" 1985-1990 / Nancy Bartels -- Mundelein College Baccalaureate Address, June 9, 1991 / Mary Griffin -- Afterword / Mary Nowesnick.
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City of the Century: the Epic of Chicago and the Making of America

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book, Miller
Date: 
2003
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Introduction: City of dreamers and doers. -- Discovery. The priest and the explorer ; Joliet's dream. -- "Didn't expect no town" Wild Chicago ; Banishing the past. -- Ogden's Chicago. The founder ; A prairie aristocracy ; The grid and the balloon frame. -- The great Chicago exchange engine. The big junction ; The mechanical man ; Stacker of wheat and wood, packer of pork. -- Empire city of the West. Chicago against nature ; City of extremes. -- My lost city. The Great Fire ; Unapproachable in calamity. -- Introduction: Let us build ourselves a city. -- That astonishing Chicago. "Grander and statelier than ever" ; America's city. -- The Chicago machine. Empires of order and blood ; A fortress of oppression ; The Pullman idea ; Steel rails to country kitchens. -- The streetcar city. Palaces of desire ; The Loop ; City and suburb ; Sunday in Chicago. -- Stories in stone and steel. Something new under the sun ; Burnham and Root ; The major's birdcage ; Factories in the sky. -- Sullivan and civic renewal. The Auditorium ; A proud and soaring thing. -- The new Chicago. Burnham's White city ; Hutchinson's three-ring circus ; Harper's university ; The social defense of caste ; The new Chicago woman ; Cleansing the city. -- The battle for Chicago. Politics "ain't bean bag" ; Why the ward boss rules ; Haymarket ; It's Harrison again. -- 1893. The Fair ; The "Gomorrah of the West" ; Stories of the streets and of the town. -- After the Fair. If Christ came to Chicago! ; Regeneration.
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0684831384
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Originally published in hardcover in 1996. Companion edition to the American Experience presentation on PBS.

Chicago Surface Lines: an Illustrated History

Catalog Number: 
book, Lind
Date: 
1979
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3rd
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Comprehensive history of the electric street railways that provided transportation for most Chicagoans for over fifty years. At one point in the 1930s, the Chicago Surface Lines was the world's largest street railway, carrying more daily passengers than all the nation's railroads and airlines combined. It also had a large fleet of buses and trolley coaches. This book provides a detailed look at every aspect of the CSL, including descriptions of each class of cars and each route. Covers MOW equipment, car barns, paint schemes, corporate rivals, and employee training. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos. With maps, equipment rosters, timetables, and schematic diagrams. End papers show system maps.
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English
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0934732000
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Chicago Confidential

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book, Lait
Date: 
1950
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Chicago is the hurly-burly, rough-and-tumble, guns-and-girls, front-page town of the U.S. - and this is an impudent, uncensored, shocking account of the fast, fabulous, fascinating city. Of vital importance to every Chicagoan, it will also have enormous interest to every American. From swanky Lake Shore Drive to the squalid nests of perversion, Lait and Mortimer reveal the Chicago that's not in the guidebooks.
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Chicago Interiors: Views of a Splendid World

Catalog Number: 
book, Lowe
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1979
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Hotel life. The great row ; Magnificence in the Loop ; Northern lights -- Player with railroads. Go Pullman ; One Grand Station -- On the town. Concert halls and theatres ; Dance halls ; Movies -- Many mansions. Lake Shore palaces ; Houses of talent -- Prairie pavilions and castles in the air. Villas ; Apartments -- Two streets. State: emporiums of delight ; La Salle: halls of commerce -- Clubland -- Public spaces. Where the people rule ; Vaults of civilization ; Where the people worship -- Rooms to remember.
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John Lavalie

How to Speak Midwestern

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Book, McClelland, Edward
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2016
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How to speak Midwestern is a book about the languages and stories of people in different parts of the midwest.
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English
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9780997774276
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