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"Two decades ago, Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin's series "Reinventing the Lakefront" documented the stark disparities between the shoreline parks bordering the city's mostly white, affluent North Side neighborhoods and those along its largely Black, poor South Side. The series, which spurred new civic investments in the south lakefront, won a Pulitzer Prize and signaled Kamin's commitment to activist criticism. That commitment continued...
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Chicago. City of the Big Shoulders. What started off as a small fur-trading settlement is today a bustling metropolis. Once considered the "hog butcher of the world, stacker of wheat, player with railroads and the nation's freight handler", Chicago's colorful past remains hidden in the nooks and crannies of this wonderful windy city. Adventures await, from the glamorous to the gritty. Sip dirty martinis in an elegant, underground, 1920's bank vault....
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Sasquatch Books
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c2010
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English
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As he searches for Pete, Larry the pooch visits some amazing places, from the Sears Tower to the Art Institute of Chicago, from exciting Field Museum to historic Wrigley's Field. Eventually, the two reunite, but not before Larry has had a great adventure. Filled with candy-colored retro illustrations, sidebars and factoids about the Windy City.
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WGBH Educational Foundation
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c2003
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"City of the century tells how in just 60 years Chicago grew from a remote, swampy frontier town into one of the most explosively alive cities in the world". -- Container. Chicago by 'L" is part travelogue, part history, and part tour of Chicago's neighborhoods by 'L', Chicago's elevated train.
19) Hidden Chicago
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Window to the World Communications, Inc
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©2008
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English
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Explores the little-known history of some of Chicago's hidden treasures.
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