Chicago Historical Society: 3 books
by Ted Wachholz, Chicago Historical Society, land Disaster Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2005
More than 7,000 people living in the Chicago area and Michigan City, Indiana, eagerly anticipated Saturday morning, July 24, 1915. This particular Saturday was going to be anything but a routine summer day. Plans had been carefully made for it to be the social and entertainment event of the year, and...
by Melanie Ann Apel, Chicago Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2002
Since it was founded by German immigrants in the late 1800s, Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood has been an exciting and ever-changing place to live. Bordered by Diversey, Ashland, North Avenue, and Lake Michigan, Lincoln Park has undergone countless changes while always remaining a strong Chicago community.Through...
Douglas/Grand Boulevard
A Chicago Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2001
The history of Chicago can be told through its neighborhoods, and perhaps none is more telling than Douglas/Grand Boulevard on the city's south side. The future site of the neighborhood remained a sparsely settled prairie until the early 1850s, when Stephen A. Douglas purchased a large tract of land...