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Tales of the Great Lakes: Stories from Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin

By: N/A

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Castle / Book Sales, Inc.: January 1986

Seller ID: 97408

ISBN: 1555211208

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

They can be as still as a millpond, as angry as any storm swept ocean. The Great Lakes and the major states bordering them--Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota--are the heartland of America. The land supplies the goods: grain, meat, timber, and steel. The Lakes provide passage for those goods around the world. The two--land and water--are inseparable, their destiny interlocked.

Tales of the Great Lakes encompasses the stories of the men who built the Midwest--the giants of industry, builders of cities, intrepid seafarers, writers who chronicled the rise of the great metropolise...
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Chicago Cooks: 25 Years of Chicago Culinary History and Great Recipes from Les Dames d'Escoffier

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Price: $5.00

Publisher: Agate Surrey: August 2007

Seller ID: 126537

ISBN: 1572840900

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The past 25 years has seen Chicago transformed from a heartland stronghold of meat and potatoes into a major culinary center. Chicago Cooks chronicles this story through the eyes of the Chicago chapter of Les Dames d'Escoffier, female leaders in the food and dining world. They tell how the Chicago food scene grew and evolved, touching on landmark restaurants like Charlie Trotter's and Frontera Grill, the rise of ethnic cuisines imported from around the world, and the proliferation of shops, markets, and classes serving the ever more sophisticated home cook. The book also includes a boun...
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Global Chicago

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Price: $6.00

Publisher: University of Illinois Press: August 2004

Seller ID: 278034

ISBN: 0252071964

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Once known for gangsters and meatpacking, Chicago was virtually synonymous with the rough and tumble side of the industrial era. Today, however, Chicago has outgrown even national prominence to become a truly global city--one of the most famous and most important in the world. Global Chicago is the first book to describe Chicago's transformation from industrial powerhouse to global metropolis. It will change the way both Chicagoans and the rest of the world view the city.

Chicago has a long history of adaptation. Having gone from a swampy trading post to a major industrial ...
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No Small Plans: Graphic Novel

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Price: $7.50

Publisher: Chicago Architecture Foundation: January 2017

Seller ID: 368979

ISBN: 0997361514

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Chicago Stories: Tales of the City

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Price: $6.00

Publisher: Chronicle Books: February 2003

Seller ID: 414254

ISBN: 0811839745

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Hometown and host to talents as diverse as Richard Wright, David Mamet, Maya Angelou, Saul Bellow, and Mike Royko, Chicago boasts a rich tradition of writers who have helped shape our sense of the city even as the city informs their best work. It's "a writer's town...a fighter's town," according to Nelson Algren, and this anthology proves it. With a striking new cover, Chicago Stories collects the most evocative writing on the city, its gritty realism, and indomitable spirit.
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Tales of the Great Lakes: Stories from Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin

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Price: $5.00

Publisher: Castle / Book Sales, Inc.: January 1986

Seller ID: 417242

ISBN: 1555211208

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Smokestacks & Skyscrapers: An Anthology of Chicago Writing

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Price: $6.50

Publisher: Loyola Pr: June 1999

Seller ID: 419255

ISBN: 0829410139

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An anthology of short stories, novels, memoirs, plays, poetry, and essays includes such noted writers as Saul Bellow, Theodore Dreiser, Jane Addams, Carl Sandburg, Upton Sinclair, Edna Ferber, Lorraine Hansberry, and Nelson Algen.
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The Chicago World's Fair of 1893: A Photographic Record (Dover Architectural)

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Price: $6.00

Publisher: Dover Publications: June 1980

Seller ID: 419271

ISBN: 048623990X

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Originally conceived to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America, the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 was one of the largest (633 acres) and most influential aggregations of human talent, energy, and industry ever assembled. More than 27 million visitors entered the grounds (now Jackson Park) to marvel at the exhibits and displays housed in some 200 buildings, including those of 79 foreign governments and 38 states. Although the Fair had its share of "firsts" (original Ferris wheel, first midway, Edison's kinetoscope, etc.), its chief marvel was its architectur...
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The Encyclopedia of Chicago

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Price: $12.50

Publisher: University of Chicago Press: October 2004

Seller ID: 432644

ISBN: 0226310159

Binding: Hardcover

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One of the great American metropolises, Chicago rises out of the prairie in the heart of the country, buffeted by winds coming off the plains and cooled by the waters of the inland sea of Lake Michigan. Chicago is a city of size and mass, the cradle of modern architecture, the freight hub of the nation, a city built on slaughterhouses and cacophonous financial trading tempered by some of the finest cultural institutions in the world. While many histories have been written of the city, none can claim the scope and breadth of the long-awaited "Encyclopedia of Chicago."
Developed by the Newbe...
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The Encyclopedia of Chicago

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Price: $12.50

Publisher: University of Chicago Press: October 2004

Seller ID: 436371

ISBN: 0226310159

Binding: Hardcover

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The Chicago World's Fair of 1893: A Photographic Record (Dover Architectural)

By: N/A

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Dover Publications: June 1980

Seller ID: 436709

ISBN: 048623990X

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Encyclopedia of Chicago

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: University of Chicago Press: October 2004

Seller ID: 438158

ISBN: 0226310159

Binding: Hardcover

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Ernest Hemingway: The Oak Park Legacy

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Price: $4.00

Publisher: University Alabama Press: July 1996

Seller ID: 444087

ISBN: 0817308423

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Ernest Hemingway: The Oak Park Legacy is the first extensive examination of the relationship of Hemingway to his hometown, Oak Park, Illinois, and the influence its people, places, and underlying values had on his early work. In this volume, 11 leading Hemingway scholars explore various aspects of these issues, from the migration of the Hemingway family from Connecticut to Illinois in the 1850s, to Hemingway's high-school stories and the dramatic breakthrough of In Our Time and The Sun Also Rises. With these books, Hemingway suddenly became one of the most influential w...
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P.S. You Sound Like Someone I Can Trust

By: 826CHI

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 395317

ISBN: 1934750859

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul

By: Abbott, Karen

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: June 2008

Seller ID: 48853

ISBN: 0812975995

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Step into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history-and the catalyst for a culture war that rocked the nation. Operating in Chicago's notorious Levee district at the dawn of the last century, the Club's proprietors, two aristocratic sisters named Minna and Ada Everleigh, welcomed moguls and actors, senators and athletes, foreign dignitaries and literary icons, into their stately double mansion, where thirty stunning Everleigh "butterflies" awaited their arrival. Courtesans named Doll, Suzy Poon Tang, and Brick Top devoured raw meat to the delight o...
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