Author: Helen Zatterberg
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Category : Lakeview (Chicago, Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 17
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An Historical Sketch of Ravenswood and Lake View
Author: Helen Zatterberg
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Category : Lakeview (Chicago, Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 17
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Category : Lakeview (Chicago, Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 17
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Chicago Neighborhoods and Suburbs
Author: Ann Durkin Keating
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226428834
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
""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 good idea of who you are, especially in a metropolis with so many different neighborhoods and suburbs to choose from." "Many of us know little of the neighborhoods beyond those where we work, play, and live. This is particularly true in Chicagoland, a region that spans over 4,400 square miles and is home to more than 9.5 million residents. Now, historian Ann Durkin Keating's compact guide, drawn largely from the bestselling Encyclopedia of Chicago, brings the history of Chicago neighborhoods to life."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226428834
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
""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 good idea of who you are, especially in a metropolis with so many different neighborhoods and suburbs to choose from." "Many of us know little of the neighborhoods beyond those where we work, play, and live. This is particularly true in Chicagoland, a region that spans over 4,400 square miles and is home to more than 9.5 million residents. Now, historian Ann Durkin Keating's compact guide, drawn largely from the bestselling Encyclopedia of Chicago, brings the history of Chicago neighborhoods to life."--BOOK JACKET.
Hidden History of Ravenswood and Lake View
Author: Patrick Butler
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614238707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
It's easy to get caught up in the hidden history of Ravenswood and Lake View, like the Harm's Park picnic that lasted fifty-four years or the political gimmickry of the "Cowboy Mayor" of Chicago. Who can resist a double take over folk like the "Father of Ravenswood," who kept Chicago from falling to the Confederacy, or the "North Side's Benedict Arnold," who was sent to the electric chair during World War II? If you want to visit the days when the Cubs were the Spuds or debate whether Ravenswood is an actual neighborhood or just a state of mind, do it with longtime North Side journalist Patrick Butler in this curio shop of forgotten people and places.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614238707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
It's easy to get caught up in the hidden history of Ravenswood and Lake View, like the Harm's Park picnic that lasted fifty-four years or the political gimmickry of the "Cowboy Mayor" of Chicago. Who can resist a double take over folk like the "Father of Ravenswood," who kept Chicago from falling to the Confederacy, or the "North Side's Benedict Arnold," who was sent to the electric chair during World War II? If you want to visit the days when the Cubs were the Spuds or debate whether Ravenswood is an actual neighborhood or just a state of mind, do it with longtime North Side journalist Patrick Butler in this curio shop of forgotten people and places.
Alchemy of Bones
Author: Robert Loerzel
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252055934
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
On May 1, 1897, Louise Luetgert disappeared. Although no body was found, Chicago police arrested her husband, Adolph, the owner of a large sausage factory, and charged him with murder. The eyes of the world were still on Chicago following the success of the World's Columbian Exposition, and the Luetgert case, with its missing victim, once-prosperous suspect, and all manner of gruesome theories regarding the disposal of the corpse, turned into one of the first media-fueled celebrity trials in American history. Newspapers fought one another for scoops, people across the country claimed to have seen the missing woman alive, and each new clue led to fresh rounds of speculation about the crime. Meanwhile, sausage sales plummeted nationwide as rumors circulated that Luetgert had destroyed his wife's body in one of his factory's meat grinders. Weaving in strange-but-true subplots involving hypnotists, palmreaders, English con artists, bullied witnesses, and insane-asylum bodysnatchers, Alchemy of Bones is more than just a true crime narrative; it is a grand, sprawling portrait of 1890s Chicago--and a nation--getting an early taste of the dark, chaotic twentieth century.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252055934
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
On May 1, 1897, Louise Luetgert disappeared. Although no body was found, Chicago police arrested her husband, Adolph, the owner of a large sausage factory, and charged him with murder. The eyes of the world were still on Chicago following the success of the World's Columbian Exposition, and the Luetgert case, with its missing victim, once-prosperous suspect, and all manner of gruesome theories regarding the disposal of the corpse, turned into one of the first media-fueled celebrity trials in American history. Newspapers fought one another for scoops, people across the country claimed to have seen the missing woman alive, and each new clue led to fresh rounds of speculation about the crime. Meanwhile, sausage sales plummeted nationwide as rumors circulated that Luetgert had destroyed his wife's body in one of his factory's meat grinders. Weaving in strange-but-true subplots involving hypnotists, palmreaders, English con artists, bullied witnesses, and insane-asylum bodysnatchers, Alchemy of Bones is more than just a true crime narrative; it is a grand, sprawling portrait of 1890s Chicago--and a nation--getting an early taste of the dark, chaotic twentieth century.
Publications of the Illinois State Historical Library, Illinois State Historical Society
Author: Illinois State Historical Library
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 780
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 780
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Publications of the Illinois State Historical Library
Author: Illinois State Historical Library
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 784
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 784
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Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society
Author: Illinois State Historical Society
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Papers in Illinois History and Transactions
Author: Illinois State Historical Society
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society for the Year ...
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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Publications of the Illinois State Historical Library, Illinois State Historical Society
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 792
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Publisher:
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 792
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