It happened in Chicago
By: Scotti Cohn.
Series: It happened in series
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Guilford, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9780762750566
Subjects: Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- Anecdotes
Genres: Anecdotes
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Putting down roots (1779); title: Ordered to evacuate (1812); title: Farewell to Eshegago (1835); title: Up, up, and hooray! (1856); title: A party in the great wigwam (1860); title: "The city of the West is dead!" (1861); title: Confined against her will (1875); title: Atrocious acts (1886); title: "The very essence of American progress" (1893); title: "Sewed up his heart" (1893); title: The race of the century (1895); title: The fall of the sausage king (1897); title: A genuine refuge (1890); title: The captain's war (1900); title: His new job (1915); title: A terrible time (1915); title: "Say it ain't so!" (1919); title: Truth, justice, and the Daily news 1924); title: "We must have tickets!" (1925); title: "My son was not a gangster" 1929); title: Journey to a new world (1942); title: The $5,000 reward (1944); title: No curses in baseball (1945); title: A tale of two Hoffmans (1969); title: A new face (1984); title: Launching a career (1990); title: Spitting images (2004); title: Chicago facts and trivia.