Early Chicago Hotels   (IL)  (Postcard History Series)
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: June 7, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780738540412
Subjects: History: American; History; History - U.S.; United States - General; History / United States / General; IL; United States - State & Local - General
First sentence: While its landscape offered little physical beauty and its air revealed the source of its name Chicagou or "place of the wild onion or skunkweed," Chicago was valued by the American Indians and early European traders because of its strategic location at the intersection of a great lake, the prairies, and a network of rivers.