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Robert G. Spinney
'Condensed yet energetic and substantial history of Chicago. Spinney has a firm sense of historical narrative as well as a keen eye for entertaining and illuminating detail.'― Publishers WeeklyA city of immigrants and entrepreneurs, Chicago is qui
Autor:
Robert G. Spinney
This chapter looks into the Democratic National Convention that returned to Chicago in 1996. It describes the Convention as the first presidential-nominating convention to be held in Chicago since the infamous and nationally televised 1968 Democratic
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https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501749599.003.0012
https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501749599.003.0012
Autor:
Robert G. Spinney
This chapter focuses on Chicago in the 1850s, which had been thriving but remained an unspectacular frontier town and the unglamorous home of thirty thousand residents and miles of mud. It mentions the Swedish novelist Fredrika Bremer who described C
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https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501749599.003.0004
https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501749599.003.0004
Autor:
Robert G. Spinney
This book links key events in Chicago's development, from its marshy origins in the 1600s to today's robust metropolis. The book presents Chicago in terms of the people whose lives made the city–from the tycoons and the politicians to the hundreds
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https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501749599.001.0001
https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501749599.001.0001
Autor:
Robert G. Spinney
This chapter explores the effects and significant indirect impact of World War I on Chicago. It points out how America was only a combatant in the war for slightly longer than a year, which is a period of time insufficient for the nation to mobilize
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https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501749599.003.0009
https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501749599.003.0009
Autor:
Robert G. Spinney
This chapter looks at the start of construction on the long-anticipated portage canal that would link Chicago with the westward-flowing Des Plaines River in 1836. It mentions Judge Theophilus Smith of the Illinois Supreme Court who predicted that Chi
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https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501749599.003.0003