Tales of Forgotten Chicago

ISBN-13: 9780809337811 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 280 str.

Richard C. Lindberg

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• Contents
• Introduction: Twenty-One Tales of Old Chicago
• Chapter 1. The Brothers Booth
• Chapter 2. The Family O’Leary and the Rest of the Story
• Chapter 3. Four Butchers Trying to Go to Heaven
• Chapter 4. Elisha Gray and the Invention of the Telephone
• Chapter 5. Crime and Punishment and the First Policewoman
• Chapter 6. Where Time Began
• Chapter 7. The Scarlet Letter Verdict
• Chapter 8. The Lakefront Forever Open, Clear, and Free
• Chapter 9. The Haunting of the Schuttler House
• Chapter 10. Stars and Bars and the Symbol of a City
• Chapter 11. America’s First Automobile Race
• Chapter 12. The Rouse Simmons and Chicago’s FirstChristmas Tree
• Chapter 13. Wrigley Field before the Cubs
• Chapter 14. The Last Supper . . . Almost
• Chapter 15. The Leaning Tower Why?
• Chapter 16. A World’s Fair of Railroading
• Chapter 17. The Windy City Songbird
• Chapter 18. How Richard J. Daley Saved the St. Patrick’s Day Parade
• Chapter 19. He Ran for His Life
• Chapter 20. All in a Hard Day’s Night
• Chapter 21. Humanity in the Heartland
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index