Chicago`s Progressive Alliance: Labor and the Bid for Public Streetcars, Georg Leidenberger

Автор: Joe Kraus
Название: The Kosher Capones: A History of Chicago`s Jewish Gangsters
ISBN: 1501747312 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501747311
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The Kosher Capones tells the fascinating story of Chicago's Jewish gangsters from Prohibition into the 1980s. Author Joe Kraus traces these gangsters through the lives, criminal careers, and conflicts of Benjamin "Zuckie the Bookie" Zuckerman, last of the independent West Side Jewish bosses, and Lenny Patrick, eventual head of the Syndicate's "Jewish wing."

These two men linked the early Jewish gangsters of the neighborhoods of Maxwell Street and Lawndale to the notorious Chicago Outfit that emerged from Al Capone's criminal confederation. Focusing on the murder of Zuckerman by Patrick, Kraus introduces us to the different models of organized crime they represented, a raft of largely forgotten Jewish gangsters, and the changing nature of Chicago's political corruption. Hard-to-believe anecdotes of corrupt politicians, seasoned killers, and in-over-their-heads criminal operators spotlight the magnitude and importance of Jewish gangsters to the story of Windy City mob rule.

With an eye for the dramatic, The Kosher Capones takes us deep inside a hidden society and offers glimpses of the men who ran the Jewish criminal community in Chicago for more than sixty years.

Автор: Branford Electric Railway Association
Название: Brooklyn Streetcars
ISBN: 1531636950 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781531636951
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Автор: Helton Gary
Название: Baltimore`s Streetcars and Buses
ISBN: 1531633811 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781531633813
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Автор: Suellen Hoy
Название: Good Hearts: Catholic Sisters in Chicago`s Past
ISBN: 0252073010 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780252073014
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Описание: The critical roles of Catholic nuns in Chicago's development

Автор: Worth Kamili Hayes
Название: Schools of Our Own: Chicago`s Golden Age of Black Private Education
ISBN: 0810141191 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780810141193
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Описание: As battles over school desegregation helped define a generation of civil rights activism in the United States, a less heralded yet equally important movement emerged in Chicago. Following World War II an unprecedented number of African Americans looked beyond the issue of racial integration by creating their own schools. This golden age of private education gave African Americans unparalleled autonomy to avoid discriminatory public schools and to teach their children in the best ways they saw fit. In Schools of Our Own, Worth Kamili Hayes recounts how a diverse contingent of educators, nuns, and political activists embraced institution building as the most effective means to attain quality education. He chronicles the extraordinary Measures they employed to secure what many in the United States took for granted. Even as the golden age came to an end, it foreshadowed the complex and sometimes controversial reform efforts of the twenty-first century.Schools of Our Own makes a fascinating addition to scholarly debates about education, segregation, African American history, and Chicago, still relevant in contemporary debates about the fate of American public schooling.

Автор: Hayner Don
Название: Binga: The Rise and Fall of Chicago`s First Black Banker
ISBN: 081014090X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780810140905
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Описание: The definitive full-length biography of Jesse Binga, the first black banker in Chicago. Born into a large family in Detroit, Binga arrived in Chicago in 1892 in his late twenties with nothing. Through his wits and resourcefulness, he rose to wealth and influence as a real estate broker, and in 1908 he founded the first black-owned bank in Chicago.

Автор: Charles A. Sengstock
Название: That Toddlin` Town: Chicago`s White Dance Bands and Orchestras, 1900-1950
ISBN: 0252029542 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780252029547
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Описание: In the 1920s and 1930s, Chicago became a center for jazz and blues, vaudeville, and a budding recording industry. Not surprisingly, the city and its environs spawned and nurtured a sprawling scene of nationally recognized dance bands and orchestras.

That Toddlin' Town focuses on the untold history of Chicago's white dance bands, theater orchestras, radio studio ensembles, and nightclub bands. Charles A. Sengstock Jr. draws on monumental research to portray the bands not only in terms of their music but also in the context of the venues in which they played and Chicago's volatile economic and social climate. Viewing the bands as parts of an economic system, he analyzes them as businesses facing all the usual pressures brought on by ambition, personality clashes, financial realities, and the overriding need to serve clients. He also examines how the bands--along with their charismatic leaders, powerful booking agencies, and the Chicago Federation of Musicians--impacted the music industry at large and influenced other entertainment media.

Автор: Pero Peter N.
Название: Chicago`s Pilsen Neighborhood
ISBN: 1531655459 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781531655457
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Автор: Cutler Irving
Название: Chicago`s Jewish West Side
ISBN: 1531638937 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781531638931
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Автор: Cotter Bill
Название: Chicago`s 1933-34 World`s Fair: A Century of Progress
ISBN: 1531670938 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781531670931
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Автор: Jones Wilbert, Willis-Morton Kathleen, O. Brien Maureen
Название: Chicago`s Gold Coast
ISBN: 1531661963 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781531661960
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Описание: What was once described as an undesirable swampland has been transformed into one of the most beautiful and wealthiest neighborhoods in America. Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood, developed in the late 1800s, was first called the Astor Street District. It was named after one of the first multimillionaires in the United States, John Jacob Astor--even though Astor never lived in Chicago. In 1885, Astor Street District's first mansion was built. Potter Palmer, a dry goods merchant and owner of the Palmer House Hotel, built his palatial, castle-like residence on the corner of Lake Shore Drive and Banks Street; inside the Palmer mansion were 42 lavishly furnished rooms, which required 26 servants to maintain. Many wealthy Chicagoans followed Palmer's lead and built mansions in the neighborhood. Several homes took up an entire city block and, as time progressed, the name Gold Coast was adopted. On January 30, 1978, the entire Gold Coast district was listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Автор: Rua Merida M.
Название: A Grounded Identidad: Making New Lives in Chicago`s Puerto Rican Neighborhoods
ISBN: 0190257806 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190257804
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: This interdisciplinary study-the first book-length study of Chicago`s Puerto Rican community rooted not simply in contemporary ethnographic source material but also in extensive historical research-shows the varied ways Puerto Ricans came to understand their identities and rights within and beyond the city they made home.