Overview :Chicago's Motor Row earned a spot in the National Register of Historic Places by pioneering a new way to market an invention that was remaki... Read More
Overview :Contaminated drinking water killed thousands of Chicago's original citizens, so the city took the unprecedented step of digging a tunnel two... Read More
Overview :The Ogden Gas Affair represented the biggest political scandal of Chicago's first sixty years. Mayor John P. Hopkins and Democratic Party bo... Read More
Overview :A violent period of American labor history reached its bloody apex in 1937 when rattled Chicago police shot, clubbed and gassed a group of m... Read More
Overview :This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This... Read More
Overview :Wade into the endless smoke of Chicago's Union Stock Yards, the site of nearly three hundred extra-alarm fires before its closure in 1971, i... Read More
Overview :This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, ... Read More
Overview :In 1855, when Chicago's recently elected mayor Levi Boone pushed through a law forbidding the sale of alcohol on Sunday, the city pushed bac... Read More
Overview :Chicago's war against cinder, flame and smoke did not end with the Great Fire of 1871. That conflagration was only one engagement in a cease... Read More