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On This Day in Chicago History - Softcover

Schmidt, John R.

 
9781626192539: On This Day in Chicago History
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1626192537 ISBN 13: 9781626192539
Verlag: HISTORY PR, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Think you know Chicago? Ifyou are thinking of Al Capone, the L, the Cubs, Barack Obama or the Great Fireof 1871, then you are remembering the highlights from the tour bus. Hereâ??s therest of the story, day by day. Chicago opened the first blood bank, inventedthe vacuum cleaner and sent a bowling ball around the world. One high schoolfootball game drew 120,000 people. Chicagoans fought nineteen years over thename of a street. For fifty years, they saved a gallows for an escaped killer.And those are just some of the stories.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John R. Schmidt is a fifth-generation Chicagoan with a PhD in history from the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Mayor Who Cleaned Up Chicago and senior writer at Bowlers Journal, where he has over 300 articles to his credit. He is a regular on-air contributor at radio station WBEZ and the proprietor of the blog Chicago History Today.

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Verlag
HISTORY PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1626192537
ISBN 13 
9781626192539
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
383
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