Chicago
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Chicago
By Thomas J. O'GormanThomas J. O'Gorman ... His controversial style fit into a deep local history of edgy architectural designs from Daniel Burnham and Frank Lloyd Wright to Helmut Jahn . Left : The black painted steel and glass of Mies van der Rohe became ...
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Chicago: A Geography of the City and Its Region
By John C. HudsonChicago: A Geography of the City and Its Region
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Chicago: A Food Biography
By Daniel R. Block, Howard B. RosingChicago grew amazingly fast, becoming the second largest city in the US in 1890. Chicago itself and its immediate surrounding area was also the site of agriculture, both producing food for the city and for shipment elsewhere.
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Chicago: From Vision to Metropolis
By Whet MoserAnd in this book, Chicago magazine editor and longtime Chicagoan Whet Moser draws on Chicago’s social, urban, cultural, and often scandalous history to reveal how the city of stinky onions grew into the great American metropolis it is ...
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Chicago
By Carol M. Highsmith, Ted LandphairChicago, America's "Second City," the sprawling, burly king of the Heartland, home of the world's tallest building and civilization's largest free library, one-time capital of American anarchism and Al Capone, is a city of oddly impressive ...
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Chicago
By Cutler, IrvingChicago : Chicago Sun - Times , 2000 . Duis , Perry R. Challenging Chicago : Coping with Everyday Life , 1837-1920 . Chicago : University of Illinois Press ... Metro Chicago Almanac . Chicago : Bonus Books and Chicago Sun - Times ...
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Chicago
By Claude MorneauClaude Morneau. Hayner , Don ; Mcnamee , Tom . Metro Chicago Almanac . Chicago Sun - Times , 1993 Lindberg , Richard . Ethnic Chicago . Passport Books , 1993 . Travel Notes 368 Recommended Reading.
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Chicago: The Second City
By A. J. LieblingThe book is attractively designed, the illustrations are first-rate and Mr. Liebling can write.”—New York Times “Mr.
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Chicago: A Novel
By David MametSet in his hometown, Chicago is the book that David Mamet has been building up to for his whole career.
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Chicago: A Literary History
By Frederik Byrn KøhlertChicago occupies a central position in both the geography and literary history of the United States.
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Chicago: America's Best Sports Town
By Brian SandalowThere were the dominant seasons: 61 wins in 1990–91, 67 wins in 1991–92, the historic 72 wins in 1995–96, and the almost-asgood 69-victory team of 1996–97. The playoff runs were dramatic. The 1991 team had to get past the hated Pistons ...
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Chicago: A Literary History
By Frederik Byrn Køhlert50 By the 1840s, a different variety of the gothic developed in English fiction in response to the Industrial Revolution. The fiction of Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Benjamin Disraeli – sometimes labeled “Condition of ...
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Chicago: Its History and its Builders, Volume 2
By Josiah Seymour CurreyThe only articles said to have been saved from this building were some charred fragments of books, and a small vial containing a section of tapeworm, which was in the collection of curiosities. On this loss Mr. Andreas, ...
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Chicago: Classic Photographs
By Michael Williams, Richard CahanHere they have chosen photos going back more than a century to show a city that is both well-known and surprising. This is a book for people who love Chicago and for visitors who want something special to remember her by.
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Chicago: Unforgettable Vintage Images of an All-American City
By Best of Images of America Staff... and Marquette Manor Chicago's Historic Pullman District Chicago's Opulent Age : 1890–1940 Chicago's Parks Chicago's South Shore Chicago's South Shore Country Club Chicago's Southeast Side Chicago's Southeast Side Revisited Cicero ...
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Chicago: A Novel
By Brian DoyleThis is the story of the five seasons he lives there, during which he meets gangsters, gamblers, policemen, a brave and garrulous bus driver, a cricket player, a librettist, his first girlfriend, a shy apartment manager, and many other ...
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Chicago: An Illustrated Timeline
By Ellen ShubartWith vignettes and photography, Chicago: An Illustrated Timeline, follows the Chicago story from its trading post beginnings to its role as a possible American megacity.
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Chicago: A Guide to Recent Architecture
By Susanna SirefmanThis completely revised edition documents the city's recent architecture, starting with the deveopments at O'Hare airport, taking in the commercial buildings of the Old Town, the West Loop, and the Central Business District, and ending with ...
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Chicago: America's Railroad Capital
Discover how the third largest U.S. city became the nation's most important hub, serving six of North America's largest railroads.
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Chicago
By CollectifTRAVEL & HOLIDAY GUIDES. The DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Chicago is your definitive guide to the best things to do in Chicago.