City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of AmericaSimon & Schuster, 1996 - 704 من الصفحات Thoroughly researched and magnificently written, City of the Century captures all the drama of Chicago's growth from a desolate fur-trading post in the 1830s to a metropolis that by 1890 rivaled New York City. "Brims with life, with people, surprises, and with stories--and stories within stories--all worth telling."--David McCullough, author of Truman. of photos. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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... construction of the first comprehensive sewage system in the country and for the next two decades presided over the city's sanitary - reform movement . A vision- ary engineer with an incorruptible sense of civic duty and an ability to ...
... construction of the first comprehensive sewage system in the country and for the next two decades presided over the city's sanitary - reform movement . A vision- ary engineer with an incorruptible sense of civic duty and an ability to ...
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... construction site of the Home In- surance Building could not have been aware in the first months of con- struction that they were seeing architecture history being made . With its heavy stone base arising out of its pier foundations all ...
... construction site of the Home In- surance Building could not have been aware in the first months of con- struction that they were seeing architecture history being made . With its heavy stone base arising out of its pier foundations all ...
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... construction , Sullivan argued ; it was more impor- tant that it express its nature , that it be exactly what it was — tall , " every inch of it tall , . . . a proud and soaring thing . The Auditorium commission ended what Sullivan ...
... construction , Sullivan argued ; it was more impor- tant that it express its nature , that it be exactly what it was — tall , " every inch of it tall , . . . a proud and soaring thing . The Auditorium commission ended what Sullivan ...
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Preface | 15 |
City of Dreamers and Doers | 24 |
Didnt Expect No Town | 48 |
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