It Happened in Chicago

by Scotti Cohn

Overview

Thirty-six episodes from the Windy City’s history, including legendary events such as the great fire and the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, as well as lesser-known tales.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762750566
Publisher:	Globe Pequot Publishing
Publication date:	08/04/2009
Series:	It Happened In Series
Edition description:	1st Edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	(w) x (h) x 0.48(d)

About the Author

Scotti McAuliff Cohn is a writer and freelance editor specializing in history and young-adult fiction. Her other books include It Happened in North Carolina and More than Petticoats: Remarkable North Carolina Women. After living for more than twenty years in North Carolina, she now makes her home in Bloomington, Illinois.

Table of Contents

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Putting Down Roots 1779

Ordered to Evacuate 1812

Farewell to Eshegago 1835

Up, Up, and Hooray! 1856

A Party in the Great Wigwam 1860

“The City of the West is Dead!”  1871

Confined Against Her Will 1875

Atrocious Acts 1886

“The Very Essence of American Progress” 1893

“Sewed Up His Heart” 1893

The Race of the Century 1895

The Fall of the Sausage King  1897

A Genuine Refuge 1890

The Captain’s War 1900

His New Job 1915

A Terrible Time 1915

“Say it Ain’t So!” 1919

Truth, Justice, and the Daily News 1924

“We Must Have Tickets!” 1925

“My Son Was Not a Gangster” 1929

Journey to a New World 1942

The $5,000 Reward 1944

No Curses in Baseball? 1945

A Tale of Two Hoffmans 1969

A New Face 1984

Launching a Career 1990

Spitting Images 2004

Chicago Facts and Trivia

Bibliography

About the Author