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Book Chicago Heights Revisited

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dominic Candeloro
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780738501291
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Chicago Heights Revisited written by Dominic Candeloro and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the long-awaited second volume on Chicago Heights in the Images of America series. Chicago Heights Revisited expands on the popular first volume, as the authors cover the period from 1930-1970 in greater detail. What emerges from this wonderful collection of images is a multi-layered portrait of a lively city striving as one to assist in a World War II Allied victory, even while supporting a large spectrum of differing religious, social, and ethnic institutions. When residents remember Chicago Heights, they remember downtown. Images of the Liberty Restaurant, Nick Guzzino's Barbershop, and Rau's Toyland will evoke fond memories for past and present Chicago Heights residents. The various industries of the city are captured in historic photographs, reminding us all of the hard working residents that created the thriving community of Chicago Heights. Images of the World War II era capture the contributions that the people of Chicago Heights made for their nation and community.

Book The Boys in Chicago Heights

Download or read book The Boys in Chicago Heights written by Matthew J. Luzi and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Chronicles the heyday of the Chicago Heights subsidiary of Al Capone’s infamous Prohibition-breaking criminal organization” (Time Out Chicago). Chicago Heights was long the seat of one of the major street crews of the Chicago Outfit, but its importance has often been overlooked and misunderstood. The crew’s origins predate Prohibition, when Chicago Heights was a developing manufacturing center with a large Italian immigrant population. Its earliest bosses struggled for control until a violent gang war left the crew solidified under the auspices of Al Capone. For the remainder of the twentieth century, the boys from Chicago Heights generated large streams of revenue for the Outfit through its vast gambling enterprises, union infiltration, and stolen auto rackets. For the first time, the history of the Chicago Heights street crew is traced from its inception through its last known boss. Includes photos! “I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the Chicago Heights Street Crew. It not only provides a well researched history of the crew, but also explains how the boys from Chicago Heights became an important, yet little known, part of the Chicago Outfit.” —Springer Science + Business Media

Book Chicago Heights

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dominic Candeloro
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780738524702
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book Chicago Heights written by Dominic Candeloro and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Chicago Heights mirrors the growth and struggles of the entire nation. From determined settlers to visionary industrialists, from the power of rail to the vast intercontinental highway system, this Illinois city of hard workers and dynamic ethnic groups persevered through overwhelming obstacles to claim its place at the center of the Industrial Revolution.

Book Chicago

    Book Details:
  • Author : Best of Images of America Staff
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780738507231
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book Chicago written by Best of Images of America Staff and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Chicago told through a collection of vintage photographs.

Book The Glassmakers  Revisited

Download or read book The Glassmakers Revisited written by Jack K. Paquette and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its corporate name is hardly a household word, yet Owens-Illinois, Inc., located near a small town in northwestern Ohio, is the world's largest manufacturer of the glass bottles and jars used to provide food, beverages and medicines every day to millions of people around the globe. Unlike most corporate histories, The Glassmakers, Revisited, is a page turner....a book filled with illuminating facts and interesting anecdotes about the company that became a global giant due to the mechanical genius of Michael J. Owens, who, in 1903, invented a machine to blow bottles, automatically, and Edward D. Libbey, the astute glassmaker who bankrolled him.

Book Leaps of Faith

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anne C. Benoit
  • Publisher : IAP
  • Release : 2018-09-01
  • ISBN : 164113464X
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book Leaps of Faith written by Anne C. Benoit and published by IAP. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As discourses and programming to support diversity and inclusion across higher education are intensifying, Leaps of Faith: Stories from Working-Class Academics presents a collection of narratives that highlights the “on-the-ground” experiences of working-class students and scholars. These are stories of negotiation, transition, and challenge. These are stories of struggle. These are stories of beating the odds. The early works of Ryan and Sackrey (1984), Sennett and Cobb (1993), and Dews and Law (1996) raised the voices of working-class academics, and the subject of class in higher education has gained traction—especially with the increasing focus on the enrollment and persistence of first-generation college students. This project situates contributor stories in adult learning and development, with the goal of enhancing dialogue and increasing understanding of a still-hidden population in the academy. Leaps of Faith: Stories from Working-Class Academics is a compelling collection of reflections from working-class students and scholars from diverse demographic and geographic backgrounds who are currently navigating various transition points and career stages. Leaps of Faith: Stories from Working-Class Academics presents the strengths and gifts of the scholar-contributors and the opportunity to “turn the stories” through accessible and meaningful reflective “telling.” The collection concludes with a discussion of salient implications for working-class students and scholars, those who support their learning and development, and higher education institutions and programs.

Book Great Lakes and Midwest Catalog

Download or read book Great Lakes and Midwest Catalog written by Partners Book Distributing and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Handbook of Anthropometry

Download or read book Handbook of Anthropometry written by Victor R. Preedy and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 3039 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropometry is the physical measurement of linear growth and body composition. In this handbook all facets and features of anthropometry are described. Each chapter includes applications to other areas of health and disease.

Book Psychological Anthropology Reconsidered

Download or read book Psychological Anthropology Reconsidered written by John M. Ingham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-05-23 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews developments in pyschological anthropology and examines psychoanalytic, dialogical and social perspectives on personality and culture.

Book The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women s Activism

Download or read book The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women s Activism written by Anne Meis Knupfer and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2023-02-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on the heels of the Harlem Renaissance, the Chicago Renaissance was a resonant flourishing of African American arts, literature, theater, music, and intellectualism, from 1930 to 1955. Anne Meis Knupfer's The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism demonstrates the complexity of black women's many vital contributions to this unique cultural flowering. The book examines various groups of black female activists, including writers and actresses, social workers, artists, school teachers, and women's club members to document the impact of social class, gender, nativity, educational attainment, and professional affiliations on their activism. Together, these women worked to sponsor black history and literature, to protest overcrowded schools, and to act as a force for improved South Side housing and employment opportunities. Knupfer also reveals the crucial role these women played in founding and sustaining black cultural institutions, such as the first African American art museum in the country; the first African American library in Chicago; and various African American literary journals and newspapers. As a point of contrast, Knupfer also examines the overlooked activism of working-class and poor women in the Ida B. Wells and Altgeld Gardens housing projects.

Book A Report on Chicago Crime

Download or read book A Report on Chicago Crime written by Chicago Crime Commission and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Neighborhood Outfit

Download or read book The Neighborhood Outfit written by Louis Corsino and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the slot machine trust of the early 1900s to the prolific Prohibition era bootleggers allied with Al Capone, and for decades beyond, organized crime in Chicago Heights, Illinois, represented a vital component of the Chicago Outfit. Louis Corsino taps interviews, archives, government documents, and his own family's history to tell the story of the Chicago Heights "boys" and their place in the city's Italian American community in the twentieth century. Debunking the popular idea of organized crime as a uniquely Italian enterprise, Corsino delves into the social and cultural forces that contributed to illicit activities. As he shows, discrimination blocked opportunities for Italians' social mobility and the close-knit Italian communities that arose in response to such limits produced a rich supply of social capital Italians used to pursue alternative routes to success that ranged from Italian grocery stores to union organizing to, on occasion, crime.

Book German Chicago

    Book Details:
  • Author : Raymond Lohne
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 1999-10-12
  • ISBN : 1439610002
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book German Chicago written by Raymond Lohne and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1999-10-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In German Chicago: The Danube Swabians and the American Aid Societies, historian Raymond Lohne presents the Germans who came to be called the Donauschwaben and their American counterparts. This amazing photographic collection of over 200 historic images has been gathered through the efforts of the author and survivors of the Expulsion, as well as numerous German-American societies and individuals throughout the nation.

Book Biennial Report of the Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities of the State of Illinois

Download or read book Biennial Report of the Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities of the State of Illinois written by Illinois. Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Biennial Report

    Book Details:
  • Author : Illinois. Board of Public Charities
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1911
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 720 pages

Download or read book Biennial Report written by Illinois. Board of Public Charities and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spectrum of Love

Download or read book Spectrum of Love written by Walter Rinder and published by Celestial Arts. This book was released on 1984-04 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: