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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

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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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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

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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OUR OLD TOWN: THE HISTORY OF A NEIGBORHOOD

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Price: $6.00

Publisher: Old Town Triangle Assoc: January 2001

Seller ID: 450360

ISBN: 9672296185

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Smokestacks & Skyscrapers: An Anthology of Chicago Writing

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Price: $6.00

Publisher: Loyola Pr: June 1999

Seller ID: 462509

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: 436709

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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Granta 108: Chicago (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)

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Price: $5.00

Publisher: Grove Press, Granta: December 2009

Seller ID: 455514

ISBN: 192900138x

Binding: Trade Paperback

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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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A Mile Square of Chicago

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Price: $10.00

Publisher: TIPRAC:

Seller ID: 467638

ISBN: 0963399543

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Chicago Youth Centers The First 50 Years 1956-2006

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Price: $10.00

Publisher: Chicago Youth Centers: January 2009

Seller ID: 481140

ISBN: 0615313469

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Smokestacks & Skyscrapers: An Anthology of Chicago Writing

By: N/A

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Loyola Pr: June 1999

Seller ID: 484555

ISBN: 0829410139

Binding: Trade Paperback

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

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Dover Publications: June 1980

Seller ID: 466062

ISBN: 048623990X

Binding: Trade Paperback

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P.S. You Sound Like Someone I Can Trust

By: 826CHI

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 395317

ISBN: 1934750859

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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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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: 413031

ISBN: 0812975995

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: $8.00

Publisher: Random House: July 2007

Seller ID: 415660

ISBN: 1400065305

Binding: Hardcover

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Radio: an Illustrated Guide

By: Abel, Jessica/Glass, Ira

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 240304

ISBN: 0967967104

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Life, on the Line

By: Achatz, Grant

Price: $6.00

Publisher: July 2014

Seller ID: 449168

ISBN: 1592406017

Binding: Hardcover

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"One of America's great chefs" ("Vogue") shares how his drive to cook immaculate food won him international renown-and fueled his miraculous triumph over tongue cancer.
In 2007, chef Grant Achatz seemingly had it made. He had been named one of the best new chefs in America by "Food & Wine" in 2002, received the James Beard Foundation Rising Star Chef of the Year Award in 2003, and in 2005 he and Nick Kokonas opened the conceptually radical restaurant Alinea, which was named Best Restaurant in America by "Gourmet" magazine. Then, positioned firmly in the world's culinary spotlight, Achatz ...
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Twenty Years at Hull-House (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)

By: Addams, Jane

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's: April 1999

Seller ID: 62620

ISBN: 0312157061

Binding: Trade Paperback

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A new teaching edition of Twenty Years at Hull-House, this volume is an ideal way to introduce students to one of America's most famous women and an early leader of the Progressive movement. Jane Addams's original text has been reduced by about 35 percent, making it more accessible to undergraduates while maintaining the integrity of the original work. Her narrative of life in an immigrant urban neighborhood provides students with an entry into the ideology of the Progressive era and the tenets of social activism. The introduction provides a brief biographical sketch of Addams, outlines...
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Twenty Years at Hull-House (Signet Classics)

By: Addams, Jane

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Signet Classics: September 1961

Seller ID: 448314

ISBN: 0451523830

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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