Scotti Cohn

It Happened in Chicago (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Thirty-six episodes from the Windy City's history, including legendary events such as the great fire and the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, as well as lesser-known tales.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780762756117
• Artikelnr.: 41665347

Autorenporträt

Scotti McAuliff Cohn is a writer and freelance editor specializing in history and young-adult fiction. Her other books include It Happened in North Carolina and More than Petticoats: Remarkable North Carolina Women. After living for more than twenty years in North Carolina, she now makes her home in Bloomington, Illinois.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Putting Down Roots 1779
Ordered to Evacuate 1812
Farewell to Eshegago 1835
Up, Up, and Hooray! 1856
A Party in the Great Wigwam 1860
“The City of the West is Dead!”  1871
Confined Against Her Will 1875
Atrocious Acts 1886
“The Very Essence of American Progress” 1893
“Sewed Up His Heart” 1893
The Race of the Century 1895
The Fall of the Sausage King  1897
A Genuine Refuge 1890
The Captain’s War 1900
His New Job 1915
A Terrible Time 1915
“Say it Ain’t So!” 1919
Truth, Justice, and the Daily News 1924
“We Must Have Tickets!” 1925
“My Son Was Not a Gangster” 1929
Journey to a New World 1942
The $5,000 Reward 1944
No Curses in Baseball? 1945
A Tale of Two Hoffmans 1969
A New Face 1984
Launching a Career 1990
Spitting Images 2004
Chicago Facts and Trivia
Bibliography
About the Author