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10 produkter
Chicago Neighborhoods and Suburbs
A Historical Guide
Häftad, 2008
273 kr
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'Which neighborhood?' It's one of the first questions you're asked when you move to Chicago. And the answer you give - be it Bucktown, Bronzeville, or Bridgeport - can give your inquisitor a pretty good idea of who you are, especially in a metropolis with 230 very different neighborhoods and …
World of Juliette Kinzie
Chicago Before the Fire
Inbunden, 2019
314 kr
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When Juliette Kinzie first visited Chicago in 1831, it was anything but a city. An outpost in the shadow of Fort Dearborn, it had no streets, no sidewalks, no schools, no river-spanning bridges. And with two hundred disconnected residents, it lacked any sense of community. In the decades that …
Rising Up from Indian Country
The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago
Häftad, 2019
261 kr
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In August 1812, under threat from the Potawatomi, Captain Nathan Heald began the evacuation of ninety-four people from the isolated outpost of Fort Dearborn to Fort Wayne, hundreds of miles away. The group included several dozen soldiers, as well as nine women and eighteen children. After traveling …
Building Chicago
Suburban Developers and the Creation of a Divided Metropolis
Häftad, 2002
302 kr
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The modern suburbanite lives among manicured lawns, shopping centers, and public schools with private school reputations. Socially and economically dependent on the city, but autonomously governed, suburban life ostensibly offers the best of both worlds. In Building Chicago, Ann Durkin Keating …
City of Lake and Prairie
Chicago's Environmental History
Av Kathleen Brosnan, Ann Durkin Keating m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
358 kr
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Known as the Windy City and the Hog Butcher to the World, Chicago has earned a more apt sobriquet—City of Lake and Prairie—with this compelling, innovative, and deeply researched environmental history. Sitting at the southwestern tip of Lake Michigan, one of the largest freshwater bodies in the …
In the Shadow of Jane Addams
Hull-House and Planning in a Working-Class Neighborhood
Av Ann Durkin Keating, Rima Schultz
Inbunden, 2027
1275 kr
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In the Shadow of Jane Addams
Hull-House and Planning in a Working-Class Neighborhood
Av Ann Durkin Keating, Rima Schultz
Häftad, 2027
310 kr
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Encyclopedia of Chicago
Av James R. Grossman, Ann Durkin Keating m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
649 kr
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A comprehensive historical reference on metropolitan Chicago encompasses more than 1,400 entries on such topics as neighborhoods, ethnic groups, cultural institutions, and business history, and furnishes interpretive essays on the literary images of Chicago, the built environment, and the city's spo
Chicagoland
City and Suburbs in the Railroad Age
Häftad, 2005
261 kr
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Formed by images of crowded city streets and towering skyscrapers, our understanding of nineteenth-century Chicago completely neglects the fact that the city itself was only the center of a web of neighborhoods, farm communities, and industrial towns - many connected to the city by the railroad. …
Rising Up from Indian Country – The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago
Inbunden, 2012
296 kr
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In August 1812, under threat from the Potawatomi, Captain Nathan Heald began the evacuation of ninety-four people from the isolated outpost of Fort Dearborn to Fort Wayne, hundreds of miles away. The group included several dozen soldiers, as well as nine women and eighteen children. After traveling …
