Tales of Forgotten Chicago
Southern Illinois University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8093-3781-1 (ISBN)
Tales of Forgotten Chicago contains twenty-one fascinating, little-known stories about a great city and its people. Richard C. Lindberg has dug deeply to reveal lost historical events and hidden gems from Chicago’s past.
Spanning the Civil War through the 1960s, the volume showcases forgotten crimes, punishments, and consequences: poisoned soup that nearly killed three hundred leading citizens, politicians, and business and religious leaders; a woman in showbiz and her street-thug husband whose checkered lives inspired a 1955 James Cagney movie; and the first police woman in Chicago, hired as a result of the senseless killing of a young factory girl in a racially tinged case of the 1880s.
Also included are tales of industry and invention, such as America’s first automobile race, the haunting of a wealthy Gilded Age manufacturer’s mansion, and the identity of the telephone’s rightful inventor. Chapters on the history of early city landmarks spotlight the fight to save Lakefront Park and how “Lucky” Charlie Weeghman’s north side baseball park became Wrigley Field. Other chapters explore civic, cultural, and political happenings: the great Railroad Fairs of 1948 and 1949; Richard J. Daley’s revival of the St. Patrick’s Day parade; political disrupter Lar “America First” Daly; and the founding of the Special Olympics in Chicago by Anne Burke and others. Finally, some are just wonderful tales, such as a touching story about the sinking of Chicago's beloved Christmas tree ship.
Engrossing and imaginative, this collection opens new windows into the past of the Windy City.
Richard C. Lindberg is an award-winning author, journalist, and lecturer who has written nineteen other books about Chicago history, politics, criminal justice, sports, and ethnicity. The 2011 memoir of his Northwest Side boyhood, Whiskey Breakfast: My Swedish Family, My American Life, was named nonfiction book of the year by the Chicago Writer’s Association.
Contents
Introduction: Twenty-One Tales of Old Chicago
Chapter 1. The Brothers Booth
Chapter 2. The Family O’Leary and the Rest of the Story
Chapter 3. Four Butchers Trying to Go to Heaven
Chapter 4. Elisha Gray and the Invention of the Telephone
Chapter 5. Crime and Punishment and the First Policewoman
Chapter 6. Where Time Began
Chapter 7. The Scarlet Letter Verdict
Chapter 8. The Lakefront Forever Open, Clear, and Free
Chapter 9. The Haunting of the Schuttler House
Chapter 10. Stars and Bars and the Symbol of a City
Chapter 11. America’s First Automobile Race
Chapter 12. The Rouse Simmons and Chicago’s FirstChristmas Tree
Chapter 13. Wrigley Field before the Cubs
Chapter 14. The Last Supper . . . Almost
Chapter 15. The Leaning Tower Why?
Chapter 16. A World’s Fair of Railroading
Chapter 17. The Windy City Songbird
Chapter 18. How Richard J. Daley Saved the St. Patrick’s Day Parade
Chapter 19. He Ran for His Life
Chapter 20. All in a Hard Day’s Night
Chapter 21. Humanity in the Heartland
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.09.2020 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 24 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Carbondale |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 226 mm |
| Gewicht | 430 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8093-3781-9 / 0809337819 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8093-3781-1 / 9780809337811 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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