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Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. 100 (1): 67–69. ISSN 1522-1067. JSTOR 40204670. Creagh, Ronald (2007). "Review of Death in the Haymarket. A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America". Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire (96): 287–288. ISSN 0294-1759. JSTOR 20475227.
The Pit: A Story of Chicago is a 1903 novel by Frank Norris. Set in the wheat speculation trading pits at the Chicago Board of Trade Building, it was the second book in what was to be the trilogy The Epic of the Wheat. The first book, The Octopus, was published in 1901.
At night time Vandalia Eubanks and Junior Stubbs run away together with the help of "The Phantom Brakeman" (Joey) and Grandma. "Things with Wings" - 1934". While Joey is having a love affair with a Hudson Terraplane 8 (a new car model), Grandma is finding a way to force banker Mr. Weidenbach to return Mrs. Effie Wilcox to her foreclosed home ...
Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr. (November 19, 1904 – August 29, 1971) [1] and Richard Albert Loeb (/ ˈ l oʊ b /; June 11, 1905 – January 28, 1936), usually referred to collectively as Leopold and Loeb, were two American students at the University of Chicago who kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in Chicago, Illinois, United States, on May 21, 1924.
The publication of this work was preceded by an article published by Park in 1915; [4] a modified version of this work appears as Chapter 1 [5] in The City, edited by Park and Burgess (1925). [5] The article - considered to be the primer for the Chicago School of Sociology - is one of the most important urban models in the 20th century. [6]
[5] [6] Night is the first in a trilogy—Night, Dawn, Day—marking Wiesel's transition during and after the Holocaust from darkness to light, according to the Jewish tradition of beginning a new day at nightfall. "In Night," he said, "I wanted to show the end, the finality of the event. Everything came to an end—man, history, literature ...
Investigators are trying to determine how a woman got past multiple security checkpoints this week at New York’s JFK International Airport and boarded a plane to Paris, apparently hiding in the ...
Fredrick Allen Hampton Sr. (August 30, 1948 – December 4, 1969) was an American Marxist-Leninist revolutionary.He came to prominence in his late teens and early 20s in Chicago as deputy chairman of the national Black Panther Party and chair of the Illinois chapter.