999
Subtitle: a history of Chicago in ten stories
By: Richard B. Fizdale
Publisher: Ampersand, Inc.
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9781467545280
Subjects: Buildings, structures; History
Other titles: Nine hundred and ninety-nine; History of Chicago in ten stories
Description: "The story of 999 is the story of Chicago at one of the most pivotal and explosive moments in its history. Set along the city's storied lakefront, 999 details the wealth, greed, power, corruption and even murder that accompanied the rise of arguably the most beautiful and historical residential building in Chicago. Lavishly illustrated and well researched, Fizdale's vivid account of a land grab so extensive that it was contested for more than five decades, sets the stage for the war for what would become Streeterville. He includes fascinating and largely unknown details of the lives of the boldfaced names of Chicago's past -- from the period just after the Chicago fire to the present."--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-251) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: On the shores of Mishigami; title: The prehistory of 999. The disappearance of the North Side ; The meandering shore ; A prescient plan ; The visionary ; The con man cometh ; Stop and go and stop ; Senator Bartling and Attorney General Moloney go to war ; Streeter redux ; The millionaires' colony ; Who were those guys?; title: History. the address ; A rental building to a co-operative to rental to co-op; title: They lived at 999. Sidebar: a guide to reading the residents' entries ; 1912-19: the originals ; 1920-29: settling in ; Sidebar: the heiress who married a ghost ; Sidebar: the flying squadron let by a Cadillac ; 1930-46: the difficult years ; Sidebar: the birds and the beasts were there ; 1947-2013: the new status quo ; "A" units ; Sidebar: the car of tomorrow, today ; "B" units and penthouse ; "C" units; title: Forever relevant.