What Next, Chicago? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What Next, Chicago? write by Matt Rosenberg. This book was released on 2021-09-14. What Next, Chicago? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Our nation’s big cities are broken. Urban progressive government badly undermines those it claims to lift up. Matt Rosenberg lived in Chicago for thirty years, and came back to live there again amidst the turmoil of 2020. What Next, Chicago? Notes of a Pissed-Off Native Son exposes the roots of Chicago’s violent crime, failing courts and schools, rotten finances, and ongoing Black exodus, and proposes a rescue plan for this emblematic American city. “What has happened to Chicago? That’s Matt Rosenberg’s question, and mine as well. His loving tribute to our hometown is a moving, sensitive, humane, and trenchant critical assessment. Read it and weep.” —Glenn C. Loury, Professor of the Social Sciences at Brown University, and author of One By One from the Inside Out: Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America “Matt Rosenberg writes about the Chicago Way in the Chicago Style of a Mike Royko…. It’s a coherent, honest, and balanced tour of the city’s perpetual corruption, unsafe streets, gawd-awful schools, ghost neighborhoods, financial legerdemain, and the false Unified Theory of Systemic Racism that cloaks it all. Yet, What Next, Chicago? is no helpless, hopeless wail, but a powerful and useful roadmap for a rebirth of a once-great city, based on the voices of Black families and others who don’t need academia to know what to do. Must reading for Chicago lovers.” —Dennis Byrne, former Chicago Sun-Times editorial board member
What's With Chicago?
What's With Chicago? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What's With Chicago? write by Ellen Shubart. This book was released on 2018-04-15. What's With Chicago? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why don’t Chicagoans douse their hot dogs in ketchup? What do Chicagoans mean when they say, “I’m going on the ‘L’ to the Loop?” How did a snowstorm change a mayoral election? These and many other aspects of life in Chicago are the basis of What’s With Chicago?, a look at a Midwestern city with a cosmopolitan lifestyle. Built on the place where Lake Michigan meets the Chicago River, providing connections to America’s East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico, Chicago has thrived over the decades developing industries that transferred goods across the country by water, railroad, highways, and today, air. Drawing immigrant settlers from around the world, creating neighborhoods where “Old World” food and customs persist while advancing through the twenty-first century, Chicago is the birthplace of the skyscraper, home to spectacular architecture, and host to year-round sports events. Author Ellen Shubart presents a handbook to understanding the city whether you are a tourist, a newcomer, or a long-time resident. Discover the secrets, the not-so-secret, and the well-known stories and facts about the Windy City.
The Chicago Manual of Style
The Chicago Manual of Style - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Chicago Manual of Style write by University of Chicago. Press. This book was released on 2003. The Chicago Manual of Style available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Searchable electronic version of print product with fully hyperlinked cross-references.
You Were Never in Chicago
You Were Never in Chicago - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook You Were Never in Chicago write by Neil Steinberg. This book was released on 2013. You Were Never in Chicago available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Steinberg takes readers through Chicago's vanishing industrial past and explores the city from the quaint skybridge between the towers of the Wrigley Building, to the depths of the vast Deep Tunnel system below the streets. He deftly explains the city's complex web of political favoritism and carefully profiles the characters he meets along the way. Steinberg never loses the curiosity and close observation of an outsider, while thoughtfully considering how this perspective has shaped the city, and what it really means to belong.
What Was the Great Chicago Fire?
What Was the Great Chicago Fire? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What Was the Great Chicago Fire? write by Janet B. Pascal. This book was released on 2016-10-25. What Was the Great Chicago Fire? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Did the Great Chicago Fire really start after a cow kicked over a lantern in a barn? Find out the truth in this addition to the What Was? series. On Sunday, October 8, 1871, a fire started on the south side of Chicago. A long drought made the neighborhood go up in flames. And practically everything that could go wrong did. Firemen first went to the wrong location. Fierce winds helped the blaze jump the Chicago River twice. The Chicago Waterworks burned down, making it impossible to fight the fire. Finally after two days, Mother Nature took over, with rain smothering the flames. This overview of a stupendous disaster not only covers the fire but explores the whole history of fire fighting.
