Chicago Sketches: Urban Tales, Stories, and Legends from Chicago History by June Skinner Sawyers

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Chicago Sketches: Urban Tales, Stories, and Legends from Chicago History by June Skinner Sawyers
Price: $103.64

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Paperback

Publisher: Loyola Pr August 1996

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0829408193

ISBN-13: 978-0829408195

From Booklist
Glasgow-born Sawyers is the author of Chicago Portraits, which contained brief biographies of 250 famous Chicagoans. In her latest book, Sawyers has written 72 essays on the history of her adopted city. She divides the book according to such subjects as early days; radicals, reformers, and eccentrics; the literary beat; life in the neighborhoods; law and disorder; the spiritual life; political bedfellows; disasters and events; the arts; visitors and other strangers; and sports, fairs, and recreation. Al Capone is here, of course, along with Jane Addams, "Big" Jim Colosimo, "Texas" Guinan, Father Jacques Marquette, Cardinal Mundelein, Mayor John Wentworth, and Amos Alonzo Stagg. Sawyers writes about speakeasies, the Cliff Dwellers Club, the Iroquois Theater fire, the Eastland's sinking, Riverview Park, the Yiddish Theater, the Columbian Exposition, and the Chicago Bears. She includes 52 engaging photographs and five handy maps. Her provocative writing captures the spirit of the city; this is history and nostalgia at their best. George Cohen --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description
A dozen maps and 49 black-and-white photos accompany this collection of 72 essays on Chicago history. These essays offer a wide-ranging glimpse of the people and events that have shaped Chicago's rich past. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Chicago Sketches: Urban Tales, Stories, and Legends from Chicago History (Hardcover) "Chicago Sketches" is comprised of dozens of very interesting short chapters about Chicago history. Especially welcome are the lesser known incidents in Chicago's past that are included here which are as worthy of attention as the famous ones. But, indeed, "sketches" is an accurate description. These stories are really too short to satisfy the curiousity they have created, and ultimately leave the reader disappointed and wanting more. This book could best be considered as a good springboard to inspire us to read more about Chicago history elsewhere.

Chicago Sketches: Urban Tales, Stories, and Legends from Chicago History
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Updated on 10-31-2008.