Download or read book Report of the Fire Marshal to the Common Council of the City of Chicago for the Fiscal Year Ending December 31st written by Chicago (Ill.). Fire Dept and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Fire Marshal written by Chicago. Fire Dept and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards written by John F Hogan and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling history chronicles some of the most intense and tragic fires in Chicago’s storied meatpacking district. Chicago’s Union Stock Yards made the city “the hog butcher of the world,” but the notoriety came at a grievous cost. From their opening on Christmas Day of 1865 to their final closure in July of 1971, The Yards were the site of nearly three hundred extra-alarm fires. That infamous history includes some of the most disastrous conflagrations of a city famous for fire. In 1910, twenty-one firemen and three civilians were killed in a blaze at a beef warehouse—the largest death toll for an organized fire department in the nation prior to 9/11. The meatpackers who ran the yards considered the constant threat of fire as part of the cost of doing business, shrugging it off with an, “It’s all right, we're fully covered.” For the firefighters who were forced to plunge into the flames again and again, it was an entirely different matter.
Download or read book Reports of the Board of Police in the Fire Department to the Common Council of the City of Chicago written by Chicago (Ill.). Board of Police and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 1198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Reports of the Various Officers of the City of Chicago for the Fiscal Year Ending Dec 31 written by Chicago (Ill.) and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forgotten Fires of Chicago written by John F. Hogan and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical journey through the city’s catastrophic fires, and the stories of the heroes who fought them. Chicago’s war against cinder, flame, and smoke did not end with the Great Fire of 1871. In 1909, fire ripped through the dynamite room of a staging facility a mile and half off the Lake Michigan shoreline, transforming the pipe-laying operation into a raging inferno. During the World’s Columbian Exposition, thousands of fairgoers watched in horror as twelve firefighters were trapped in a blazing ice warehouse. An opera-goer left a smoking bomb under his seat at the Auditorium Theater in 1917. And the newly invented smoke ejector arrived too late to save firemen and laborers cut off in a sewer in 1931. Join John F. Hogan and Alex A. Burkholder for the history of these forgotten fires—and those who responded to them. “A must-read not only for first responders but also all history buffs, especially those interested in Chicago history.” —Robert Hoff, retired fire commissioner, Chicago Fire Department, from the foreword
Download or read book Annual Reports of the Various Departments written by Chicago (Ill.). City Council and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Age of Smoke written by Frank Uekötter and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2009-02-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1880, coal was the primary energy source for everything from home heating to industry. Regions where coal was readily available, such as the Ruhr Valley in Germany and western Pennsylvania in the United States, witnessed exponential growth-yet also suffered the greatest damage from coal pollution. These conditions prompted civic activism in the form of "anti-smoke" campaigns to attack the unsightly physical manifestations of coal burning. This early period witnessed significant cooperation between industrialists, government, and citizens to combat the smoke problem. It was not until the 1960s, when attention shifted from dust and grime to hazardous invisible gases, that cooperation dissipated, and protests took an antagonistic turn.The Age of Smoke presents an original, comparative history of environmental policy and protest in the United States and Germany. Dividing this history into distinct eras (1880 to World War I, interwar, post-World War II to 1970), Frank Uekoetter compares and contrasts the influence of political, class, and social structures, scientific communities, engineers, industrial lobbies, and environmental groups in each nation. He concludes with a discussion of the environmental revolution, arguing that there were indeed two environmental revolutions in both countries: one societal, where changing values gave urgency to air pollution control, the other institutional, where changes in policies tried to catch up with shifting sentiments.Focusing on a critical period in environmental history, The Age of Smoke provides a valuable study of policy development in two modern industrial nations, and the rise of civic activism to combat air pollution. As Uekoetter's work reveals, the cooperative approaches developed in an earlier era offer valuable lessons and perhaps the best hope for future progress.
Download or read book Report of the Fire Marshal to the Common Council of the City of Chicago for the Fiscal Year Ending December 31st written by Chicago (Ill.). Fire Dept and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers written by American Society of Civil Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for Jan. 1896-Sept. 1930 contain a separately page section of Papers and discussions which are published later in revised form in the society's Transactions. Beginning Oct. 1930, the Proceedings are limited to technical papers and discussions, while Civil engineering contains items relating to society activities, etc.
Download or read book Report of the General Superintendent of Police of the City of Chicago written by Chicago (Ill.). Police Dept and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Common Council written by Chicago (Ill.). City Council and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes its Report, 1896-1945.
Download or read book History of Chicago From 1857 until the fire of 1871 written by Alfred Theodore Andreas and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Municipal Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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