Second to None: Chicago Stories – serie
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Ensemble-Made Chicago
A Guide to Devised Theater
Av Chloe Johnston, Coya Paz Brownrigg
Häftad, 2018
212 kr
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Ensemble-Made Chicago brings together the work of a wide range of Chicago theater companies to share strategies for cocreating theatrical performance as an ensemble: About Face Youth Theater, Albany Park Theater Project, Barrel of Monkeys, Every house has a door, FEMelanin, 500 Clown, Free Street …
Breakaway
The Inside Story of the Wirtz Family Business and the Chicago Blackhawks
Av Bryan Smith
Inbunden, 2018
333 kr
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When Rocky Wirtz took over the Wirtz Corporation in 2007, including management of the Chicago Blackhawks, the fiercely beloved hockey team had fallen to a humiliating nadir. As chronic losers playing to a deserted stadium, they were worse than bad—they were irrelevant. ESPN named the franchise the …
Southern Exposure
The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side
Av Lee Bey
Häftad, 2019
338 kr
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Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side is the first book devoted to the South Side's rich and unfairly ignored architectural heritage. With lively, insightful text and gallery—quality color photographs by noted Chicago architecture expert Lee Bey, Southern Exposure …
Growing Up Chicago
Av David Schaafsma, Lauren DeJulio Bell m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
241 kr
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Growing Up Chicago is a collection of coming-of-age stories that reflects the diversity of the city and its metropolitan area. Primarily memoir, the book collects work by writers who spent their formative years in the region to ask: What characterizes a Chicago author? Is it a certain feel to the …
Binga
The Rise and Fall of Chicago's First Black Banker
Av Don Hayner
Häftad, 2019
289 kr
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Binga is the definitive full-length biography of Jesse Binga, the first black banker in Chicago. Born into a large family in Detroit, Binga arrived in Chicago in 1892 in his late twenties with virtually nothing. Through his wits and resourcefulness, he rose to wealth and influence as a real estate …
History of the Chicago Portage
The Crossroads That Made Chicago and Helped Make America
Häftad, 2021
253 kr
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This fascinating account explores the significance of the Chicago Portage, one of the most important—and neglected—sites in early US history. A seven-mile-long strip of marsh connecting the Chicago and Des Plaines Rivers, the portage was inhabited by the earliest indigenous people in the Midwest …
