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Author |
: Adam Selzer |
Publisher |
: Llewellyn Worldwide |
Total Pages |
: 362 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780738736112 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0738736112 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ghosts of Chicago by : Adam Selzer
From Resurrection Mary and Al Capone to the funeral train of Abraham Lincoln, the spine-tingling sights and sounds of Chicago's yesteryear are still with us-- and so are its ghosts. Selzer pieces together the truth behind Chicago's ghosts, and brings to light dozens of never-before-told firsthand accounts. Take a historical tour of the famous and not-so-famous haunts around town. Sometimes the real story is far different from the urban legend ... and most of the time it's even gorier ...
Author |
: Eve L. Ewing |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 237 |
Release |
: 2020-04-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226526164 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022652616X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ghosts in the Schoolyard by : Eve L. Ewing
“Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools.” That’s how Eve L. Ewing opens Ghosts in the Schoolyard: describing Chicago Public Schools from the outside. The way politicians and pundits and parents of kids who attend other schools talk about them, with a mix of pity and contempt. But Ewing knows Chicago Public Schools from the inside: as a student, then a teacher, and now a scholar who studies them. And that perspective has shown her that public schools are not buildings full of failures—they’re an integral part of their neighborhoods, at the heart of their communities, storehouses of history and memory that bring people together. Never was that role more apparent than in 2013 when Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced an unprecedented wave of school closings. Pitched simultaneously as a solution to a budget problem, a response to declining enrollments, and a chance to purge bad schools that were dragging down the whole system, the plan was met with a roar of protest from parents, students, and teachers. But if these schools were so bad, why did people care so much about keeping them open, to the point that some would even go on a hunger strike? Ewing’s answer begins with a story of systemic racism, inequality, bad faith, and distrust that stretches deep into Chicago history. Rooting her exploration in the historic African American neighborhood of Bronzeville, Ewing reveals that this issue is about much more than just schools. Black communities see the closing of their schools—schools that are certainly less than perfect but that are theirs—as one more in a long line of racist policies. The fight to keep them open is yet another front in the ongoing struggle of black people in America to build successful lives and achieve true self-determination.
Author |
: John McNally |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0980016436 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780980016437 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ghosts of Chicago by : John McNally
Features a collection of stories that tell of everyday people who must confront their own private ghosts - an accountant who falls in love with a woman who is in love with a man on death row, and a boy whose fascination with movie monsters grows stronger as his mother's pregnancy comes to term.
Author |
: Adam Selzer |
Publisher |
: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 365 |
Release |
: 2016-10-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781510713451 |
ISBN-13 |
: 151071345X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mysterious Chicago by : Adam Selzer
From Chicago historian Adam Selzer, expert on all of the Windy City’s quirks and oddities, comes a compelling heavily researched anthology of the stories behind its most fascinating unsolved mysteries. To create this unique volume, Selzer has collected forty unsolved mysteries from the 1800s to modern day. He has poured through all newspaper, magazine, and book references to them, and consulted expert historians. Topics covered include who really started the great Chicago fire, who was the first “automobile murderer,” and even if there was actually a vampire slaying at Rose Hill cemetery. The result is both a colorful read to get lost in, a window to a world of curiosity and wonder, as well as a volume that separates fact from fiction—true crime from urban legend. Complementing the gripping stories Selzer presents are original images of the crime and its suspects as developed by its original investigators. Readers will marvel at how each character and crime were presented, and happily journey with Selzer as he presents all facts and theories presented at the time of the “crime” and uses modern hindsight to assemble the pieces.
Author |
: Richard T. Crowe |
Publisher |
: Carolando Press |
Total Pages |
: 275 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0940542064 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780940542068 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chicago's Street Guide to the Supernatural by : Richard T. Crowe
Author |
: Ursula Bielski |
Publisher |
: Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781467139656 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1467139653 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Haunts of the White City: Ghost Stories from the World’s Fair, the Great Fire and Victorian Chicago by : Ursula Bielski
"At the close of the nineteenth century, Chicago offered the world a glimpse of humanity's most breathtaking possibilities and its most jaw-dropping horrors. Even as the White City emerged from the ashes of the Great Fire, serial killers like H.H. Holmes stalked the sparkling new boulevards and tragic accidents plagued the factories, slums and railroads that powered the churn of industrial innovation. Demons, mesmerists and birds of ill omen preyed on the unwary from the shadows. Ship captains spoke to the dead, while undertakers discovered reanimated corpses no longer requiring services. From posh mansions built on massacre grounds to the drowned quarries of a forest preserve, Ursula Bielski follows the dark undercurrents beneath the electric lights of the World's Fair."--
Author |
: Matt Hucke |
Publisher |
: Lake Claremont Press |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0964242648 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780964242647 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Graveyards of Chicago by : Matt Hucke
Cemeteries are in the metropolitan Chicago area.
Author |
: Tom Ogden |
Publisher |
: Globe Pequot |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2014-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0762791543 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780762791545 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Haunted Chicago by : Tom Ogden
Among this country's many treasures is the city of Chicago, an area filled with creativity and culture. Haunted Chicago, a collection of stories of ghosts, mysteries, and paranormal happenings in Chi-Town, will leave readers delightfully frightened.
Author |
: Dale Kaczmarek |
Publisher |
: Whitechapel Productions |
Total Pages |
: 196 |
Release |
: 2000-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1892523094 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781892523099 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Windy City Ghosts by : Dale Kaczmarek
The president of the Ghost Research Society takes readers on a nightmarish journey into the darkest regions of the Windy City. In this stunning book, the reader will discover not only the eerie tales and stories of the city but will be amazed by the little-known incidents and true-life paranormal investigations of Chicago.
Author |
: Brian Ladd |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 284 |
Release |
: 2008-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226467603 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226467600 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ghosts of Berlin by : Brian Ladd
In this compelling work, Brian Ladd examines the ongoing conflicts radiating from the remarkable fusion of architecture, history, and national identity in Berlin. Ladd surveys the urban landscape, excavating its ruins, contemplating its buildings and memorials, and carefully deconstructing the public debates and political controversies emerging from its past. "Written in a clear and elegant style, The Ghosts of Berlin is not just another colorless architectural history of the German capital. . . . Mr. Ladd's book is a superb guide to this process of urban self-definition, both past and present."—Katharina Thote, Wall Street Journal "If a book can have the power to change a public debate, then The Ghosts of Berlin is such a book. Among the many new books about Berlin that I have read, Brian Ladd's is certainly the most impressive. . . . Ladd's approach also owes its success to the fact that he is a good storyteller. His history of Berlin's architectural successes and failures reads entertainingly like a detective novel."—Peter Schneider, New Republic "[Ladd's] well-written and well-illustrated book amounts to a brief history of the city as well as a guide to its landscape."—Anthony Grafton, New York Review of Books