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Pages: 325
Authors: Robert G. Spinney
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-05-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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"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 illumin
Chicago Poems
Language: en
Pages: 214
Authors: Carl Sandburg
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 1916 - Publisher:

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Written in the poet's unique personal idiom, these early poems include "Chicago," "Fog," "Who Am I?" "Under the Harvest Moon," plus more on war, love, death, lo
Seeing with Their Hearts
Language: en
Pages: 335
Authors: Maureen A. Flanagan
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-21 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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At the turn of the last century, as industrialists and workers made Chicago the hardworking City of Big Shoulders celebrated by Carl Sandburg, Chicago women art
City of the Big Shoulders
Language: en
Pages: 194
Authors: Ryan G. Van Cleave
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04 - Publisher: University of Iowa Press

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Chicago has served as touchstone and muse to generations of writers and artists defined by their relationship to the city’s history, lore, inhabitants, landma
Lost Chicago
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: David Lowe
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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The City of Big Shoulders has always been our most quintessentially American—and world-class—architectural metropolis. In the wake of the Great Fire of 1871