History

Chicago: a Biography

Catalog Number: 
book,Pacyga
Date: 
2009
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"Chicago traces the city's storied past, from the explorations of Joliet and Marquette in 1673 to the new wave of urban pioneers today. The city's great industrialists, reformers, and politicians - and, indeed, the many not-so-great and downright notorious - animate this book, from Al Capone and Jane Addams to Mayor Richard J. Daley."--Inside jacket.
Language: 
English
Notes: 
1. Location, location, location. The French -- Point de Sable and the coming of the Americans -- The Yankees, the canal, and the railroads -- Ethnic diversity -- Lake Street that great street -- 2. Emporium of the West. Early industry -- Growth problems -- The threat of war -- The Civil War -- The wartime economy -- The industrial new age -- The new relationship between workers and owners -- 3. The era of urban chaos. A wooden immigrant city on the prairie -- The great Chicago fire -- The clash between labor and capital -- The capital of radicalism -- Haymarket -- The Loop: a dark vision of the future -- The levee -- 4. Reacting to chaos: Pullman, the west side, and the Loop. The west side: the communal response -- The elite response: George Pullman -- The middle-class reform response: Jane Addams -- The Loop: an architectural response -- The Columbian exposition -- Paradise lost: the Pullman strike -- 5. The progressive and not so progressive city. The continued clash of social classes -- Chicago's progressive politics -- The progressive accomplishment -- Green spaces for the poor and great plans -- The problem of housing the poor -- Big Bill Thompson and the end of progressivism -- 6. The immigrant capital and World War I. Immigrant city -- World War I -- Poison, hysteria, politics, and ethnic conflict -- World War I and the labor movement -- The great migration -- 1919: annus mirabilis -- 7. Twentieth-century metropolis. The attack on immigrants -- The bungalow and the new ethnic metropolis -- Black metropolis -- Popular culture -- The automobile -- Gangland -- 8. Years of crises: depression and war. Unemployment -- Anton Cermak and the birth of the democratic machine -- Kelly-Nash: a new democratic day -- The urge to organize: neighborhoods -- The urge to organize: labor -- World War II: emporium of the United Nations -- 9. Chicago after the war: changing times. The postwar Democrats -- The problem of race -- Englewood: Angeline Jackson's neighborhood -- Ted Swigon's back of the yards: a shifting landscape -- Reaction to change -- Arguing over urban renewal -- Violence: the murder of Alvin Palmer -- Postwar suburbs -- Deindustrialization: the stockyards -- 10. Daley's city. Building the modern city: public housing and expressways -- Daley's prime -- Black Chicago -- 1968: the whole world is watching -- 11. Apocalypse "now" or regeneration? The tragedy of Michael Bilandic -- Deindustrialization: phase two -- Seeds of a new Loop -- Jane Byrne and the politics of angst -- 1983: It's Harold! -- The second Daley -- Shifts in the economy and immigration -- Still the city of immigrants -- A city transformed? race and class in the global city -- Transforming Chicago and America.
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0226644316
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Item Donor: 
John Lavalie

Granta: The Magazine of New Writing, Issue 108

Images of America: Downers Grove Revisited

Location

60515 Downers Grove
United States
US
Catalog Number: 
Book, Dunham, Montrew
Date: 
2003
Abstract: 
The local history of Downers Grove, IL, a suburb of Chicago.
Language: 
English
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ISSN/ISBN: 
9780738531953
Website: 

Www.arcadiapublishing.com

Item Donor: 
Chicago Publishers Gallery

The Point, Issue Twelve

The Point, Issue Eleven

The Point, Issue Eight

Location

2 N La Salle St. #2300
60602 Chicago
United States
42° 58' 10.1532" N, 86° 31' 41.952" W
US
Catalog Number: 
Journal, The Point, Issue Eight
Date: 
Summer 2014
Issue: 
Eight
Language: 
English
Notes: 
Chicago based journal published twice a year. Contains essays, literary reviews, and a symposium of photographs and essays investigating the intersections of art, science, and history
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ISSN/ISBN: 
9780983913283

Illinois: A Descriptive and Historical Guide

Catalog Number: 
Book, Hansen
Date: 
1974
Edition: 
Third
Volume: 
Issue: 
Abstract: 
This new, completely revised and updated edition of a major unit of the famous American Guide Series provides a comprehensive survey of the great industrial, economic, and social changes that are sweeping the Land of Lincoln, a state that cherishes the memorials of its past and lives by the technology of the nuclear age. Here are recorded how a great railroad empire the largest air center of the Mid-continent; how a state that leads in the production of soybeans built the world's tallest skyscraper. In Illinois democratic energy finds its most typically American expression. [from flap copy]
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English
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ISSN/ISBN: 
0803833814
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Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

Location

1365 North Astor Street
60610 Chicago
United States
US
Catalog Number: 
Journal, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
Date: 
2008
Volume: 
67
Issue: 
1
Language: 
English
ISSN/ISBN: 
00379808
Website: 

Geneva in Vintage Postcards

Location

3047 N Lincoln Ave # 410
Chicago
United States
41° 56' 14.9568" N, 87° 39' 54.864" W
US
Catalog Number: 
Book, John Laukaitis
Date: 
2004
Edition: 
First
Volume: 
Issue: 
Abstract: 
(Taken From Back Cover) Geneva in Vintage Postcards opens a window into the past, allowing us to experience what this community most wanted to present to others and what visitors most wanted to present to others and what visitors most wanted to share with their families and friends.
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English
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9780738533476

Heather's L'il 2009 Country Calendar

Location

6634 N. Washtenaw
60645 Chicago
United States
US
Catalog Number: 
Other, Heather's L'il 2009 Country Calendar
Date: 
2009
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Abstract: 
An illustrated calendar for 2009 filled with dates and facts about various country stars for each day of the year.
Language: 
English
Notes: 
Illustrator includes information about purchasing CD by Chris Ligon. Two copies of calendar at the library.
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