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The Chicago Sports Reader
Author | : Steven A. Riess,Gerald R. Gems |
Publsiher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780252076152 |
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A celebration of the fast, the strong, the agile, and the tricky throughout Chicago's storied sports history
Windy City Wars
Author | : Gerald R. Gems |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015050813123 |
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Traces how the assimilation process of various ethnic groups in Chicago was facilitated by participation in sports from 1830-1940.
Sporting Dystopias
Author | : Ralph C. Wilcox,David L. Andrews,Robert Pitter,Richard L. Irwin |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780791487099 |
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Reaching beyond the popular celebration of commercial gains often associated with the proliferation of stadiums, events, and teams in the city, Sporting Dystopias explores the role of sport in the process of community building. Scholars from various fields, including anthropology, cultural studies, history, marketing, media studies, and sociology, examine the cultural, economic, and political interplay of sport and the city. The book systematically challenges the overwhelming claims of sport's benefit to the city as it scrutinizes the various tensions inherent in the relationship. Grounded in economic means, racial and ethnic affiliation, and the contestation for space, sport is seen as precipitating a broad range of human challenges.
Brown in the Windy City
Author | : Lilia Fernández |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2014-07-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226212845 |
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Brown in the Windy City is the first history to examine the migration and settlement of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in postwar Chicago. Lilia Fernández reveals how the two populations arrived in Chicago in the midst of tremendous social and economic change and, in spite of declining industrial employment and massive urban renewal projects, managed to carve out a geographic and racial place in one of America’s great cities. Through their experiences in the city’s central neighborhoods over the course of these three decades, Fernández demonstrates how Mexicans and Puerto Ricans collectively articulated a distinct racial position in Chicago, one that was flexible and fluid, neither black nor white.
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.
Windy City
Author | : Scott Simon |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2009-04-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781588367945 |
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The acclaimed author of the intensely powerful novel Pretty Birds, Scott Simon now gives us a story that is both laugh-out-loud funny and heart-piercing–as sprawling and brawling as Chicago, where politics is a contact sport. The mayor of Chicago is found in his office late at night, sitting in his boxer shorts, facedown dead in a pizza. The mayor was a hero and a rascal: dynamic, charming, ingenious, corruptible, and a masterly manipulator. The city mourns. But it’s discovered that the mayor was murdered–shortly after he may have begun to squeal on some of his colleagues at City Hall. Over the next four days, police race to find the mayor’s killer, while the politicians who bemoan his passing scramble for his throne.
City of Lake and Prairie
Author | : Kathleen A. Brosnan,William C. Barnett,Ann Durkin Keating |
Publsiher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2020-09-08 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780822987727 |
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Known as the Windy City and the Hog Butcher to the World, Chicago has earned a more apt sobriquet—City of Lake and Prairie—with this compelling, innovative, and deeply researched environmental history. Sitting at the southwestern tip of Lake Michigan, one of the largest freshwater bodies in the world, and on the eastern edge of the tallgrass prairies that fill much of the North American interior, early residents in the land that Chicago now occupies enjoyed natural advantages, economic opportunities, and global connections over centuries, from the Native Americans who first inhabited the region to the urban dwellers who built a metropolis in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As one millennium ended and a new one began, these same features sparked a distinctive Midwestern environmentalism aimed at preserving local ecosystems. Drawing on its contributors’ interdisciplinary talents, this volume reveals a rich but often troubled landscape shaped by communities of color, workers, and activists as well as complex human relations with industry, waterways, animals, and disease.
Veiled in Smoke The Windy City Saga Book 1
Author | : Jocelyn Green |
Publsiher | : Baker Books |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2020-02-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781493422753 |
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Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering in mind and spirit from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But when the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district, they lose much more than just their store. The sisters become separated from their father and make a harrowing escape from the flames with the help of Chicago Tribune reporter Nate Pierce. Once the smoke clears away, they reunite with Stephen, only to learn soon after that their family friend was murdered on the night of the fire. Even more shocking, Stephen is charged with the crime and committed to the Cook County Insane Asylum. Though homeless and suddenly unemployed, Meg must not only gather the pieces of her shattered life, but prove her father's innocence before the asylum truly drives him mad.