City of Big Shoulders

G. Spinney Robert

Description

City of Big Shoulders links key events in Chicago's development, from its marshy origins in the 1600s to today's robust metropolis. Robert G. Spinney presents Chicago in terms of the people whose lives made the city-from the tycoons and the politicians to the hundreds of thousands of immigrants from all over the world.In this revised and updated second edition that brings Chicago's story into the twenty-first century, Spinney sweeps his historian's gaze across the colorful and dramatic panorama of the city's explosive past. How did the pungent swamplands that the Native Americans called "the wild-garlic place" burgeon into one of the world's largest and most sophisticated cities? What is the real story behind the Great Chicago Fire? What aspects of American industry exploded with the bomb in Haymarket Square? Could the gritty blue-collar hometown of Al Capone become a visionary global city?A city of immigrants and entrepreneurs, Chicago is quintessentially American. Spinney brings it to life and highlights the key people, moments, and special places-from Fort Dearborn to Cabrini-Green, Marquette to Mayor Daley, the Union Stock Yards to the Chicago Bulls-that make this incredible city one of the best places in the world.

Sujets

• Histoire
• Local history
• Midwestern United States
• History of the Americas
• Illinois

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 mai 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781501748356
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

Extrait

CITY OF BIG SHOULDERS

CITY OF BIG SHOULDERS

A HI STORY OF CHI CAGO

S e c o n d E d i t i o n

Ro b e r t G . S p i n n e y

NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY PRESS AN IMPRINT OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS Ithaca and London

Second edition copyright © 2020 by Cornell University First edition copyright © 2000 by Northern Illinois Univer sity Press

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Second edition first published 2020 by Cornell University Press First edition published 2000 by Northern Illinois University Press

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Names: Spinney, Robert G. (Robert Guy), author. Title: City of big shoulders : a history of Chicago / Robert G. Spinney. Description: Second edition. | Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019029258 (print) | LCCN 2019029259 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501749599 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501748967 (paperback) | ISBN 9781501748349 (epub) | ISBN 9781501748356 (pdf ) Subjects: LCSH: Chicago (Ill.)—History. Classification: LCC F548.3. S75 2020 (print) | LCC F548.3 (ebook) | DDC 977.3/11—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019029258 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc. gov/2019029259

To Myron Magnuson, Angelo Rentas, and Jim Ritchhart, good friends who made my years in Chicago gratifying.

Co nte nts

Illustrations ix Tables xi Preface xiii

 1. The Early World of Chigagou, 1600–1750  2. Chigagou Becomes Chicago, 1750–1835  3. Boom, Bust, and Recovery in Early Chicago, 1835–1850  4. Chicago Conquers the Midwest, 1850–1890  5. Life in a City on the Make, 1850–1900  6. The Fire, the Bomb, and the Fair, 1871–1893  7. The New Immigration, 1880–1920

 8. Progressivism and Urban Reform, 1890–1915  9. World War I and the Roaring Twenties, 1915–1929 10. The Great Depression, World War II, and Suburban Growth, 1929–1955 11. Richard J. Daley and the City That Works, 1955–1976 12. The Challenges of the PostMachine Years, 1976–1997

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13. Glamorous and Grim: Chicago in the TwentyFirst Century

Notes 273 Bibliography 291 Index 303

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I l lu s t r at i o n s

 1. The Chicago stockyards  2. Downtown Chicago following the fire  3. The Columbian Exposition  4. Maxwell Street, c. 1910  5. Downtown Chicago, c. 1910  6. HullHouse  7. Depression soup kitchen  8. Robert Taylor Homes  9. Protestors and the National Guard 10. Mayor Harold Washington 11.Cloud Gate/The Bean 12.Crown Fountain 13. Greenery and two wooden beehives 14. Obamas and Rahm Emanuel

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