Bibliograph

Fabulous Chicago, a great city's history and people, [Emmett Dedmon]

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Fabulous Chicago, a great city's history and people, [Emmett Dedmon]

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Fabulous Chicago

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

[Emmett Dedmon]

Sub title

a great city's history and people

Summary

Here is the best-selling history of an American city like no other - and of the vibrant people who built it. The Yankees who came west to gamble fortunes on the Board of Trade, the Swifts and Amours, Fields and McCormicks, and the new immigrants who worked in their stockyards, stores and railroads - together and at odds they built Chicago out of the prairie mud, and built it again when the Great Fire destroyed it. This is a story of political turmoil, of corruption, of social striving and reform: the Haymarket Massacre, the Pullman Strike, Jane Adams of Hull House, and the notorious Al Capone. The entrepreneurial giants, the gangsters and mayors of legend, the poets, like Sandburg and MacLeish, and architects, like Frank Lloyd Wright - all belong to Chicago, and populate this incredible book. From the Everleigh Club brothel to the patriotic song of George F. Root, Fabulous Chicago is a history that is alive with the unbelievable spirit of one of the world's great cities

Target audience

adult

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