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Rattle back into a time when Chicago was a city of cable cars. For almost one-quarter of a century, Chicago boasted the largest cable car system the world has ever seen, transporting more than one billion riders. Borzo guides readers through the fascinating story of the rise and fall of this aspects of Chicago's transit history.
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An entertaining guidebook to the city's many communities with maps, landmarks, history, and fun facts.
With over two hundred neighborhoods divided into seventy-seven community areas, Chicago offers a dazzling and daunting challenge to ambitious tourists and lifelong citizens. This blend of history and travel guide introduces you to them. Anyone who's never been to Chicago will be shocked to learn how big it really is. Did you know that Humboldt Park...
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"Judy Huff's 1991 iconic image of a lone figure sitting in a cemetery is considered one of the best examples of spirit photography ever captured..." "A 25th anniversay investigation of Bachelors Grove Cemetery"
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"Relying on a broad array of records used together for the first time, Panic in the Loop reveals widespread fraud and insider abuse by bankers--and the complicity of corrupt politicians--that caused the Chicago banking debacle of 1932. It provides a fresh interpretation of the role played by bankers who turned the nation's financial crisis of the early 1930s into the decade-long Great Depression. It also calls for the abolition of secrecy that still...