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Displaying 11 to 20 (of 23 products) Pages: [<< Prev]   1  2  3  [Next >>]       City of the Century    Miller, Donald L    $18.95    Condition: New    Binding: Trade Paper    The epic of Chicago is the story of the emergence of modern America. Here, witness Chicago's growth from a desolate fur-trading post in the 1830s to one of the world's most explosively alive cities by 1900.    more...      Evanston    Peterson, Mimi    $19.99    Condition: New    Binding: Trade Paper    Enjoy a trip through historic Evanston. See how Davis Street and Sherman and Orrington Avenues appeared around the beginning of the 20th century. Learn how Fountain Square has evolved and how the Merrick Rose Garden is connected. See Northwestern University as it was founded, along with early Evanston's lakefront, city hall, library, and post offic    more...      The Gangs of Chicago    Asbury, Herbert    $15.95    Condition: New    Binding: Trade Paper    In this clsic history of crime, the author of The Gangs of New York tells how Chicago's underworld earned - and kept its reputation.    more...      Let Them Call Me Rebel Saul Alinsky His life and Legacy    Horwitt, Sanford D.    $25.00    Condition: New    Binding: Trade Paper    In the course of his flamboyant career as an all-purpose activist, Saul Alinsky went from organizing working-class ethnics in one of Chicago's most blighted neighborhoods to mapping out strategies for the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s. He enlisted allies - from Catholic clergymen to labor unionists and black activists - in battles    more...      Lost Chicago    Lowe, David Garrard    $29.95    Condition: New    Binding: Trade Paper    Lost Chicago explores the architecture and cultural history of one of America's greatest cities, a city whose architectural heritage was recklessly squandered during the second half of the 20th century. David Garrard Lowe's elegant, lively prose and over 270 rare photographs and prints, many of them published here for the first time, illumi    more...      Maritime Chicago    Karamanski, Theodore J and Tank, Deane Sr.    $19.99    Condition: New    Binding: Trade Paper    Strategically placed on the southern shores of Lake Michigan, Chicago has always been an important transportation and trading hub. Early Native American settlers discovered Chicago's rich resources, French missionaries and trappers found the Chicago River an excellent portage to the Des Plaines, Illinois, and Mississippi Rivers, and merchants used    more...      Murder City    Lesy, Michael    $25.95    Condition: New    Binding: Hardcover    "Things began as they usually did: Someone shot someone else." So begins a chapter of Michael Lesy's disturbingly satisfying account of Chicago in the 1920s, the epicenter of murder in America. A city where daily newspapers fell over one another to cover the latest mayhem. A city where professionals and amatures alike snuffed each other out, and of    more...      Never a City So Real A Walk In Chicago    Kotlowitz, Alex    $16.95    Condition: New    Binding: Hard Cover    Chicago is one of America's most iconic, historic, and fascinating cities, as well as a major travel destination. For Alex Kotlowitz, an accidental Chicagoan, it is the perfect perch from which to peer into America's heart. It's a place, as one historian has said, of "messy vitalities," a stwe of contradictions: coarse yet gentle, idealistic yet re    more...      The Plan of Chicago Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City    Smith, Carl    $12.00    Condition: New    Binding: Trade Paper    Arguably the most influential document in the history of urban planning, Daniel Burnham’s 1909 Plan of Chicago, coauthored by Edward Bennett and produced in collaboration with the Commercial Club of Chicago, proposed many of the city’s most distinctive features, including its lakefront parks and roadways, the Magnificent Mile, and Navy Pier.    more...      Route 66 In Chicago    Clark, David G    $21.99    Condition: New    Binding: Trade Paper    It winds from Chicago to L.A. "-so says Nat "King" Cole's classic hit "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66." Beginning in 1926, Route 66 was the only U.S. highway providing a direct connection between the Windy City and the City of Angels; thus, it is no wonder that Route 66 would become the metaphor of the American journey. The crescent-shaped route from    more...    Displaying 11 to 20 (of 23 products) Pages: [<< Prev]   1  2  3  [Next >>]

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