… narrative embraces it all: Chicago's wild beginnings, its … Chicago River and raising the entire city from prairie mud to save it from devastating cholera epidemics. The saga of Chicago's …
At last there is a book for all of us, whatever we choose to call Chicago. In this magisterial biography, historian Dominic Pacyga traces the storied past of his hometown, from the …
Chicago's impressive industrial expansion in the late nineteenth century convinced most observers that the city was defined by the crass pursuit of wealth and that its architecture was, …
… University of Chicago Press (1969) … Enhanced by over one thousand pictures and fifty maps, tells the story of Chicago and how it grew from a frontier outpost to become one of the …
… Chicago, coauthored by Edward Bennett and produced in collaboration with the Commercial Club of Chicago… Smith’s concise and accessible narrative begins with a survey of Chicago’s …
… history of the Chicago Negro community … Chicago Commission on Race Relations and later analyzed in St. Clair Drake and Horace Cayton's brilliant and exhaustive survey of Chicago …
… alike have asserted that Chicago is the quintessentially American city. Indeed, the introduction to" The New Chicago" reminds us that to know America, you must know Chicago. The …
… Chicago mitica e solforosa troviamo una piccola comunità di egiziani in esilio, forgiata sul modello del dipartimento dell'Università di Chicago … presidente egiziano a Chicago, si mette in …
… look at jazz in the Windy City, revealing how Chicago became the major center of jazz in the … to Chicago during and after World War I set the stage for the development of jazz in Chicago…
… Through an examination of the south Italians, both in their Old World setting and in Chicago, this article will indicate how Handlin's portrayal of the peasant as immigrant does violence to …