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Chicago Stadium
$24.99 Read moreBuilt in 1929, Chicago Stadium was the crowning achievement of local sports promoter Paddy Harmon. The largest sports arena in the world when it was built, the stadium was completed at a total cost of… [more below]
- Series: Images of Sports
- Author: Peterson, Paul Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0738583073
- Language: English
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Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair
$23.99 Read moreStep into the future of the past in Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair
What came to be known as the World’s Columbian Exposition was planned to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s 149
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Di Cola, Joseph M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 08 2012
- ISBN10: 0738594415
- Language: English
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Forest Lake
$24.99 Read moreLike so many of the places that lined the route from St. Paul to Duluth, Forest Lake came of age as a railroad town and was first incorporated as a township in 1874. Situated on a lake by the same nam… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Brink, Justin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1467160253
- Language: English
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Drury University
$23.99 Read moreOn September 25, 1873, Dr. Nathan Jackson Morrison, the first president of Drury College, stood in the second-story window of an unfinished building and rang a borrowed boardinghouse dinner bell to an… [more below]
- Series: Campus History
- Author: Garvin, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1467109673
- Language: English
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The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy
$19.99 Read moreWinner of The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism – 2019
Through
When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins.- Author: Clark, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 23 2019
- ISBN10: 1250181615
- Language: English
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The North Shore Line
$23.99 Read moreAs late as 1963, it was possible to board high-speed electric trains on Chicago’s famous Loop “L” that ran 90 miles north to Milwaukee. This was the Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad, commonly … [more below]
- Series: Images of Rail
- Author: Sadowski, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1467108960
- Language: English
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Wicked Cleveland
$21.99 Read moreAward-winning true crime author Jane Turzillo brings together the strippers, gangsters, robbers, shady politicians, and more from Cleveland’s rough and rowdy past.
From world-class museums and popular
- Series: Wicked
- Author: Turzillo, Jane Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 27 2022
- ISBN10: 146715024X
- Language: English
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The Toledo War: The First Michigan-Ohio Rivalry
$24.95 Read more“An engaging account of the Toledo War of 1835, a serious confrontation whose outcome established the borders of the state of Michigan. Faber expertly narrates the history of a dispute conducted by fa
- Author: Faber, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 10 2008
- ISBN10: 0472050540
- Language: English
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Lost Mackinac Island
$23.99 Read moreWhether prehistoric and glacially slow or swift and modern, countless changes to Mackinac Island have driven much of its history out of sight and memory. Eons ago, waves washed away soft rock to leave… [more below]
- Series: Lost
- Author: Pucci, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1467149187
- Language: English
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Chicago’s Lost Ls
$23.99 Read moreChicago’s system of elevated railways, known locally as the L, has run continuously since 1892 and, like the city, has never stood still. It helped neighborhoods grow, brought their increasingly diver… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Sadowski, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 12 2021
- ISBN10: 146710602X
- Language: English
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Chicago’s Motor Row
$23.99 Add to cartChicago’s Motor Row earned a spot in the National Register of Historic Places by pioneering a new way to market an invention that was remaking America–the automobile.
From approximately 1905 to 1936, … [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Hogan, John F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 03 2022
- ISBN10: 146710762X
- Language: English
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Secret Northwest Indiana: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
$22.50 Read more- Series: Secret
- Author: Pete, Joseph S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1681063662
- Language: English
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Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana
$28.00 Read moreWho are the people called Hoosiers? What are their stories? Two centuries ago, on the Indiana frontier, they were settlers who created a way of life they passed to later generations. They came to valu
- Author: Madison, James H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: February 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0253023440
- Language: English
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Lutherans of Cole County, Missouri: A History
$24.99 Read moreThe Houses Lutherans Built
Large groups of German immigrants began arriving in Cole County in the 1830s. By 1843, thirty-seven of them banded together to establish the first Lutheran church in the
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Amick, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 11 2023
- ISBN10: 146715489X
- Language: English
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Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream
$14.95 Read moreA resonant true story of small-town politics and community perseverance and of decent people and questionable choices, Zoo Nebraska is a timely requiem for a rural America in the throes of extinction.
- Author: Vaughan, Carson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: April 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1503901491
- Language: English
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The Great Water: A Documentary History of Michigan
$26.95 Add to cartMichigan’s location among the Great Lakes has positioned it at the crossroads of many worlds. Its first hunters arrived ten thousand years ago, its first farmers arrived about six thousand years after… [more below]
- Author: Thick, Matthew R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: January 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1611862671
- Language: English
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Historic Chicago Bakeries
$21.99 Read moreAs immigrants came from outside the United States and settled in pockets around Chicago, each neighborhood had its own bakery–and sometimes several. At one time, more than seven thousand bakeries dot… [more below]
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Billock, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1467150118
- Language: English
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Winfield’s Walnut Valley Festival
$23.99 Read moreLocal historian Seth Bate tells the story of the Walnut Valley Festival with reflections from staff, emcees, performers, campers, and characters from throughout its history.
The Festival was launched i
- Author: Bate, Seth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1467146056
- Language: English
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Hegewisch
$24.99 Read moreFounded in 1884 as the company town of the United States Rolling Stock Company, Hegewisch became Chicago’s most remote and isolated neighborhood in 1889. Surrounded by waterways and railroads, the com… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Ogorek, Cynthia L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1467160660
- Language: English
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The King of Skid Row: John Bacich and the Twilight Years of Old Minneapolis
$16.95 Read moreThe story of a much different Minneapolis, through the words and photographs of one of its most colorful characters–now in paperback
City blue laws drove the liquor trade and its customers–hard-dr
- Author: Shiffer, James Eli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1517916593
- Language: English
