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Tales of forgotten Chicago / Richard C. Lindberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lindberg, Richard C., 1953- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chicago (Ill.)--History--1875---Anecdotes.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Chicago (Ill.)--Biography--Anecdotes.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "This entertaining collection of twenty-one stories of people and places in Chicago, from roughly the time of the Civil War to the1960s, is a potpourri of personalities, human foibles, heartbreak, and triumph."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The Brothers Booth
- ch. 2 The Family O'Leary and the Rest of the Story
- ch. 3 Four Butchers Trying to Go to Heaven
- ch. 4 Elisha Gray and the Invention of the Telephone
- ch. 5 Crime and Punishment and the First Policewoman
- ch. 6 Where Time Began
- ch. 7 The Scarlet Letter Verdict
- ch. 8 The Lakefront Forever Open, Clear, and Free
- ch. 9 The Haunting of the Schuttler House
- ch. 10 Stars and Bars and the Symbol of a City
- ch. 11 America's First Automobile Race
- ch. 12 The Rouse Simmons and Chicago's First Christmas Tree
- ch. 13 Wrigley Field before the Cubs
- ch. 14 The Last Supper Almost
- ch. 15 The Leaning Tower Why?
- ch. 16 A World's Fair of Railroading
- ch. 17 The Windy City Songbird
- ch. 18 How Richard J. Daley Saved the St. Patrick's Day Parade
- ch. 19 He Ran for His Life
- ch. 20 All in a Hard Day's Night
- ch. 21 Humanity in the Heartland.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Lindberg, Richard C., 1953- Tales of forgotten Chicago
- ISBN:
- 9780809337811
- 0809337819
- OCLC:
- 1121607357
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