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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... downtown area was almost completely rebuilt . And the rebuilding went forward with even greater energy the next year , when the city dumped thousands of tons of fire debris into the lake , filling the area between South Michigan Avenue ...
... downtown area was almost completely rebuilt . And the rebuilding went forward with even greater energy the next year , when the city dumped thousands of tons of fire debris into the lake , filling the area between South Michigan Avenue ...
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... downtown , choking traffic and blighting entire neighbor- hoods ; and the great railroad district on the southern end of the business center - a Chicago Chinese Wall - prevented the logical ex- pansion of downtown in that direction ...
... downtown , choking traffic and blighting entire neighbor- hoods ; and the great railroad district on the southern end of the business center - a Chicago Chinese Wall - prevented the logical ex- pansion of downtown in that direction ...
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... downtown sections to work , shop , and be entertained far more fre- quently and in far greater numbers than suburban commuters do today . It was the Great Fire that set in motion the changes that completely altered Chicago's social ...
... downtown sections to work , shop , and be entertained far more fre- quently and in far greater numbers than suburban commuters do today . It was the Great Fire that set in motion the changes that completely altered Chicago's social ...
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Preface | 15 |
City of Dreamers and Doers | 24 |
Didnt Expect No Town | 48 |
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