Download or read book Round about Chicago Classic Reprint written by Louella Chapin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Round About Chicago By this time it is needless to say that the O. M. Is of the teaching sisterhood. Yet, gentle reader, turn not away! We are alone this summer, that is, without masculine hindrance; for Father, the correlative of Mother, is hence, on business bent, so there are no meals to be gotten to the minute, and no reason why we should be at home except at bed time. So we are going, all of us, not alone the o. M., to have a taste of real freedom and real joy, -oi the harmless country kind, I hasten to add. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Story of Chicago Classic Reprint written by Joseph Kirkland and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of Chicago The best a historian can do is to approach accuracy before venturing upon publication; and, after publication, - to approach it more and more nearly; for to reach it is beyond his utmost scope. The degree in which he can do this latter is dependent on the trouble his readers may take in pointing out to him his errors of omission and commission. "A word to the wise is sufficient;" and these words are addressed to all who are interested enough to read, wise enough to criticise and friendly enough to correct, for the benefit of posterity, this "Story of Chicago." Through the kindness of friends, some valuable additions, emendations and corrections are possible in this Second Edition. It is hoped that others may be kindly furnished for future use. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Chicago Classic Reprint written by H. C. Chatfield-Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Chicago About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Classic Reprint written by Ben Hecht and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago A week or so later Ben came in again. Bringing actual manuscript for eight or ten stories. He was haggard but very happy. It was clear that he had sat up nights with those sto ries. He thumbed them over as though he hated to let them go. They were the first fruits of his Big Idea-{the idea that just under the edge of the news as commonly understood, the news often atly and unirnaginatively told, lay life; that in this urban life there dwelt the stuff of literature, not hidden in remote places, either, but walking the downtown streets, peering from the windows of sky scrapers, sunning it self in parks and boulevards. He was going to be its interpre ter. His was to be the lens throwing city life into new colors, his the microscope revealing its contortions in life and death. It was no newspaper dream at all, in fact. It was an artist's dream. And it had begun to come true. Here were the stories. Hoped I'd like 'em. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Download or read book A Girl of Chicago Classic Reprint written by Mary Moncure Parker and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Girl of Chicago Oh, I don't know. East, I guess. N 0 very enchant ing resort around here anyhow. I rather think I shall not make up my mind until I've had an inkling as to what resort the little Allene means to honor with her presence, then I think I shall take wings thither for a month or so. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Picturesque Chicago Classic Reprint written by Chicago Engraving Company and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Picturesque Chicago In spite of all disadvantages, the city grew. Was it the hand of Fate? The State census in 1845 showed a population of not quite trebling in five years. Another half decade showed an equal increase, the United States census in 1850 disclosing a population of - in round numbers, In the meantime, the canal had been completed, and for about two years had been pouring into Chicago granaries the wealth of the Illinois valley farms. Lake commerce had attained to fair proportions, and regular lines of upper lake steamers unloaded immense cargoes of merchandise and passengers, and reloaded with equally rich cargoes of grain and provisions for the Eastern markets. The wonderful railroad system that has since contributed to the expansion of Chicago's commercial greatness was then in embryo. The Galena road, the only railroad ever built out of Chicago, had reached Elgiu, and was bringing in the products of the Fox River valley. Two lines from the East, the Michigan Central and the Michigan Southern, were in active rivalry to see which should first reach Chicago, and the Illinois Central was in course of construction to reach the city from the south. The second decennial State census in 1855 showed the wonderful influence of the introduction of the new element of greatness - railroads - ia a population of a round This was a second almost trebling of pop ulation in the brief period of five years. The next half decade showed but slight progress - the United States census of 1860 giving the city but For this comparative standstill there were several reasons. Theoorvmen'r. Aldine square.country had just passed through the financial crisis of 1857, and business of all kinds was everywhere at its lowest ebb. The finances and currency of the country was in a very unsatisfactory condition. The bank bills of the several States were hardly current outside of the States in which they were issued, and breaking banks were creating consternation in business circles at alarmingly frequent intervals. Our productive industries, what few we had, were bankrupt and idle, while agricultural products hardly paid the cost of growing them. The boom imparted to the growth of the city by the completion of several important lines of railways, dur ing the first half of the decade. Had no counterpart in the latter half. But while there was little to boast of in the way of growth of population, the city was by no means idle. Many of the great improvements which sub sequently contributed so much to its metropolitan character, were inaugurated during this period. Among these was the raising the grade of the city from six to ten feet, which necessitated the lifting of entire blocks of stores, hotels and residences that distance above their foundations, making practical our present system of sewerage, tunneling the lake for a copious supply of pure water, the system of street railways, which has since grown to such wonderful proportions, and others which will be subsequently spoken of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men of Chicago Classic Reprint written by John Carbutt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men of Chicago Chicago is thus not only a wonderful city in herself, but Apostolic in her character preaching the truth in the desert, and sowing the seed which has now blossomed forth into the fruits of a Garden of Eden. She it was who, first planted in the prairie like the staff of St. Patrick, has since grown forth even more wonderfully than his wand, becoming not a trefoil, but a banyan tree, whose shoots flourish from ocean to ocean. Chicago was the surveyors' station from which the land beyond was prospected, and the villages and cities subsequently laid out that now dot the West. Her example has stimulated to wondrous enterprise in city building elsewhere, and while in her proud position at the head of the great chain of Lakes, she is the central point to which all else converges, as the meridian lines towards the poles, she is still more distinguished as the originator of Western progress - the maker of Northwestern history. Thirty-one years since, Chicago was first called'a city, and Mayor Ogden looked round on the new-born corporation, and with true prophetic eye noted its future magnitude. That is nearly one generation ago; a few months more, and we shall have turned the first leaf in our civic history. The early workers-out of the great problem of Western commerce are even now passing away from among us, breaking through the death cloud, seen in the vision of Mirza, into the great ocean of eternity. It is a grateful task to turn the camera on the little throng who are now walking over the senior arches in the bridge of life, and photograph for preservation the prominent features in the lives of that little band who have made so much of our history. We essay the work in the following pages; they contain life sketches of over one hundred of the leading citizens of Chicago - the men to whose foresight, energy, enterprise, and influence. The proud municipality of to-day so largely owes its greatness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book A Guide to the City of Chicago Classic Reprint written by Chicago Association of Commerce and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Guide to the City of Chicago The city of Chicago offers so much that is of detailed interest, over its vast area and multiple activities, that it would be difficult, within the necessary limits, to cover all of its features. The matter which follows, however, gives a general survey of the city, and a historical review which is necessary in order to understand the growth and development of what may well be considered the most remarkable city of modern times. Chicago has at this time (1909) a population numbering fully 2,250,000 which is being added to at the rate of about 75,000 annually. The length of the city is 26 miles, its greatest width 141/2 miles and its total area 190.63 square miles. Within its boundaries are 4,227 miles of streets and alleys. Its water works (city owned) pump a daily average of more than 437,000,000 gallons of water. Of public schools there are 300 of which number one is a normal school and 19 high schools. Besides these there are hundreds of church and private schools and other institutions of learning. The churches of the city number 1,077 with more than 1,000 semi-religious organizations of various kinds. Thirteen hundred and fifty miles of surface and elevated railway traverse the city upon which ride daily an average of 1,354,000 passengers. The three park systems contain 3,191 acres and with the 48 miles of boulevards form a complete belt around the city. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Early Chicago and Illinois Classic Reprint written by Edward G. Mason and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Early Chicago and Illinois Byron L. Smith. Henry H. Nash. Henry H. Nash. Henry H. Nash. Henry H. Nash. Henry H. Nash. Henry H. Nash. Henry H. Nash. Henry H. Nash. Henry H. Nash. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book From Side Streets and Boulevards written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-21 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from From Side Streets and Boulevards: A Collection of Chicago Stories IN the year 1858 lived in a diminutive cottage, on the outskirts of one of our large eastern cities, a small family in rather reduced circumstances. This family differed from the thousands similarly situated in the misfortunes leading to their pres ent condition. The father was one of the younger sons in a wealthy English family; he had been scrupulously taught the manly accomplishments appertaining to his station in life, received a liberal education, particularly in the art of spending money, and on reaching his twenty-fifth year fell in love with a handsome, highly educated girl, the daughter of a minister; this lady brought to her husband no larger dower than her beauty and devotion. All might have been well if the young husband had not already formed that taste for ardent spirits which has been, and is, the blight of so many hearthstones. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Reminiscences of Early Chicago and Vicinity Classic Reprint written by Edwin Oscar Gale and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reminiscences of Early Chicago and Vicinity Youth, like softened wax, with ease will take Those images that first impressions make. The evolution of Chicago from an insignificant trading post to what it is to-day, occurring, as it has, during the continuous residence within its borders of a person who, as Holmes would say, is but 68 years young, seems more like a fairy story than an historical reality. I shall not endeavor to make an exact chronological statement of the incidents of our remarkable develop ment, but rather to view the ground in its primal state and speak of the early toilers who planted the seeds which have produced the results so marvelous in themselves and of such interest to us and posterity. My purpose is to draw the curtain (every day be coming more difficult to do), which conceals the slowly fading past from the rapidly changing present, that the reader may acquire, as I did, some knowledge of the characteristics of the men who planted the orchard whose fruit is now the wonder and admiration of every land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book My Chicago Classic Reprint written by Anna Morgan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from My Chicago From that day, long years ago, when a stranger asked at her door for Miss Anna Morgan the dramatic reader, and gave her a first engagement for the modest honorarium of ten dollars, to this year when the shadow of war lowers over the land she has been a tireless champion of dramatic art, and ever true to its ideals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Chicago 1837 1922 written by C. D. Peacock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08-02 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Chicago, 1837-1922: 85th Anniversary It is particularly fitting that Peacock's should be known as The Jewelry Store for All Chi cago, as well as for all the people of. The Great Middle West, for the House of Peacock's started with Chicago, suffered with Chicago through its great fire and panics, and with Chicago it grew from a very modest start to a great enterprise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Chicago and Its Suburbs Classic Reprint written by Everett Chamberlin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-27 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Chicago and Its Suburbs With these remarks, and with some reluctant apologies for the inevitable consequences of the haste in which some parts of the book were put to press, Chicago and its Suburbs is respectfully submitted to a public which has always manifested an interest, usually kind as well as keen, to hear something more about Chicago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Early Chicago Reminiscences Classic Reprint written by Charles Cleaver and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Early-Chicago Reminiscences We left Buffalo, August 26, for a goo-mile journey by land for Chicago, and traveled a couple of hundred miles along the shore of Lake Erie through Pennsylvania and Ohio. Instead of finding it a wilderness as we expected, we found a beautiful farming coun try, well settled by thriving farmers, good farm-houses, and fruit in abundance, and until we reached Cleveland, then a town of about 3000 inhabitants, first-rate macadamized roads. We hoped to find plenty of game, but were not quite so foolish as a young Englishman who was visiting at my house a few years since, who asked the morning after his arrival if he could walk out a few miles and get a shot at a buffalo, but did expect we might shoot a deer now and then; but, with the exception of two or three that crossed the road a few miles from Cleveland, and once again in Michigan, we saw none, and with small game it was about the same. We had two or three hours good duck-shooting on the Sandusky River, and once in a while shot a stray pigeon along our route, but that was all until we arrived at White Pigeon, when we ame across a flock of prairie-chickens and bagged a few of them, and once again at Door Prairie, about ten miles from Michi gan City, where we shot a couple, but with these few exceptions we saw no game in our two months' traveling. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Historical Events of Chicago Classic Reprint written by Charles S. Winslow and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-07 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Historical Events of Chicago The appendix contains lists of governors of Illinois, mayors of Chicago, presidents of the Board of Education and superintendents, assistant superintendents and district superintendents of the public schools. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Circular of the Chicago Illinois Southern Railway Classic Reprint written by Chicago Illinois Southern Railway and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Circular of the Chicago Illinois Southern Railway Circular of the Chicago & Illinois Southern Railway was written by Chicago Illinois Southern Railway in 1872. This is a 38 page book, containing 11072 words. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.