Chicago S Monuments Markers And Memorials
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Chicago s Monuments Markers and Memorials
Author | : John Graf,Steve Skorpad |
Publsiher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0738520020 |
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Offers a look at Chicago's diverse commemorative monuments, markers, and memorials created by unknown artists and notables including Pablo Picasso, Louis Sullivan, and Lorado Taft.
Mount Greenwood Cemetery
Author | : Margaret M. Kapustiak,Paula K. Everett |
Publsiher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2014-11-03 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9781439648186 |
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Established in 1879 on 111th Street in the Beverly area of Chicago, Mount Greenwood Cemetery is an open-air museum that reflects three centuries of history. The Victorian cemeterywith its large, decorative monuments set on a rolling landscape amid winding roadsis an oasis treasured by its neighbors and by families whose loved ones rest there. It is home to educators, artists, veterans, businessmen, social reformers, ministers, and everyday people. The grounds also host heroes who stepped up in a time of need and people who lost their lives in epidemics and horrific disasters. On any given day, joggers in colorful gear can be seen running past a group on a brisk morning walk. Signs announce an upcoming history program or 5K race. Workers plant flowers on the grounds, while family historians ponder the memorials. A Civil War group places markers on veterans tombstones. Members of a service organization walk to their monument, planning an event. A group of schoolchildren examines graves, and a journalist snaps a photograph.
Urban Green
Author | : Colin Fisher |
Publsiher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2015-05-11 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781469619965 |
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In early twentieth-century America, affluent city-dwellers made a habit of venturing out of doors and vacationing in resorts and national parks. Yet the rich and the privileged were not the only ones who sought respite in nature. In this pathbreaking book, historian Colin Fisher demonstrates that working-class white immigrants and African Americans in rapidly industrializing Chicago also fled the urban environment during their scarce leisure time. If they had the means, they traveled to wilderness parks just past the city limits as well as to rural resorts in Wisconsin and Michigan. But lacking time and money, they most often sought out nature within the city itself--at urban parks and commercial groves, along the Lake Michigan shore, even in vacant lots. Chicagoans enjoyed a variety of outdoor recreational activities in these green spaces, and they used them to forge ethnic and working-class community. While narrating a crucial era in the history of Chicago's urban development, Fisher makes important interventions in debates about working-class leisure, the history of urban parks, environmental justice, the African American experience, immigration history, and the cultural history of nature.
Sport and the Shaping of Civic Identity in Chicago
Author | : Gerald R. Gems |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2020-02-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781498598989 |
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This study uses sociological and historical methodologies to analyze the role of sport in the formation of urban identity in Chicago. The author traces the transformation of Chicago from a frontier town to a commercial behemoth, examining its role as an immigration, transportation, and entertainment hub. The author argues that, as a pioneering leader in American sport history, Chicago allowed teams and athletes to forge a unique national and global identity. This thorough and well-researched study makes a major contribution to debates on the social and psychological functions of sport culture.
Historic Sites and Landmarks That Shaped America 2 volumes
Author | : Mitchell Newton-Matza |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 858 |
Release | : 2016-09-06 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781610697507 |
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Exploring the significance of places that built our cultural past, this guide is a lens into historical sites spanning the entire history of the United States, from Acoma Pueblo to Ground Zero. Historic Sites and Landmarks That Shaped America: From Acoma Pueblo to Ground Zero encompasses more than 200 sites from the earliest settlements to the present, covering a wide variety of locations. It includes concise yet detailed entries on each landmark that explain its importance to the nation. With entries arranged alphabetically according to the name of the site and the state in which it resides, this work covers both obscure and famous landmarks to demonstrate how a nation can grow and change with the creation or discovery of important places. The volume explores the ways different cultures viewed, revered, or even vilified these sites. It also examines why people remember such places more than others. Accessible to both novice and expert readers, this well-researched guide will appeal to anyone from high school students to general adult readers.
Chicago s Fabulous Fountains
Author | : Greg Borzo |
Publsiher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2017-05-10 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780809335794 |
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""Chicago's Fabulous Fountains" presents in words and pictures many of the more than one hundred outdoor public fountains in Chicago, informing readers about their origin and place in the city"--
Encyclopedia of the Chicago Literary Renaissance
Author | : Jan Pinkerton,Randolph H. Hudson |
Publsiher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : 9781438109145 |
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The Chicago Renaissance began in the early 1900s and lasted until approximately 1930. The leading writers of the period, including Theodore Dreiser ("Sister Carrie)
Chicago
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0809387956 |
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This book provides a comprehensive portrayal of the growth and development of Chicago from the mudhole of the prairie to today's world-class city. This completely revised fourth edition skillfully weaves together the geography, history, economy, and culture of the city and its suburbs with a special emphasis on the role of the many ethnic and racial groups that comprise the "real Chicago" of its neighborhoods.