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Author : Margaret Kelly
Release : 2008-11
Genre : Travel
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Book Rating : 003/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Fodor's Chicago 2009 by : Margaret Kelly
Download or read book Fodor's Chicago 2009 written by Margaret Kelly. This book was released on 2008-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a survey of the hotels, restaurants, historical sites, cultural activities, and other attractions in Chicago and includes special information for the business traveler
Author : D. Bradford Hunt
Release : 2009-08-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 873/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Blueprint for Disaster by : D. Bradford Hunt
Download or read book Blueprint for Disaster written by D. Bradford Hunt. This book was released on 2009-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now considered a dysfunctional mess, Chicago’s public housing projects once had long waiting lists of would-be residents hoping to leave the slums behind. So what went wrong? To answer this complicated question, D. Bradford Hunt traces public housing’s history in Chicago from its New Deal roots through current mayor Richard M. Daley’s Plan for Transformation. In the process, he chronicles the Chicago Housing Authority’s own transformation from the city’s most progressive government agency to its largest slumlord. Challenging explanations that attribute the projects’ decline primarily to racial discrimination and real estate interests, Hunt argues that well-intentioned but misguided policy decisions—ranging from design choices to maintenance contracts—also paved the road to failure. Moreover, administrators who fully understood the potential drawbacks did not try to halt such deeply flawed projects as Cabrini-Green and the Robert Taylor Homes. These massive high-rise complexes housed unprecedented numbers of children but relatively few adults, engendering disorder that pushed out the working class and, consequently, the rents needed to maintain the buildings. The resulting combination of fiscal crisis, managerial incompetence, and social unrest plunged the CHA into a quagmire from which it is still struggling to emerge. Blueprint for Disaster, then,is an urgent reminder of the havoc poorly conceived policy can wreak on our most vulnerable citizens.
Author : Irving Cutler
Release : 1996
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 855/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Jews of Chicago by : Irving Cutler
Download or read book The Jews of Chicago written by Irving Cutler. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vividly told and richly illustrated with more than 160 photos, this fascinating history of the cultural, religious, fraternal, economic, and everyday life of Chicago's Jews brings to life the people, events, neighborhoods, and institutions that helped shape today's Jewish communities. 15 maps. Graphs & tables.
Author : David Wroblewski
Release : 2009-03-19
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 891/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by : David Wroblewski
Download or read book The Story of Edgar Sawtelle written by David Wroblewski. This book was released on 2009-03-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Oprah's Book Club Pick A #1 New York Times Bestseller A National Bestseller Beautifully written and elegantly paced, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is a coming-of-age novel about the power of the land and the past to shape our lives. It is a riveting tale of retribution, inhabited by empathic animals, prophetic dreams, second sight, and vengeful ghosts. Born mute, Edgar Sawtelle feels separate from the people around him but is able to establish profound bonds with the animals who share his home and his name: his family raises a fictional breed of exceptionally perceptive and affable dogs. Soon after his father's sudden death, Edgar is stunned to learn that his mother has already moved on as his uncle Claude quickly becomes part of their lives. Reeling from the sudden changes to his quiet existence, Edgar flees into the forests surrounding his Wisconsin home accompanied by three dogs. Soon he is caught in a struggle for survival—the only thing that will prepare him for his return home.
Author : Ben Hecht
Release : 1922
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Book Synopsis A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by : Ben Hecht
Download or read book A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago written by Ben Hecht. This book was released on 1922. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
