Ebook: City of scoundrels : the 12 days of disaster that gave birth to modern Chicago
Author: Krist Gary
- Tags: Disasters -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century. Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 20th century. Chicago (Ill.) -- Civilization. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA IL IN KS MI MN MO ND NE OH SD WI) Civilization. Disasters. Illinois -- Chicago.
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Crown Publishers
- City: New York, Chicago (Ill.), Illinois--Chicago
- Language: English
- epub
Documents the harrowing twelve-day period in Chicago in 1919 during which a blimp crash, a race riot, a crippling transit strike, and a sensational child murder case challenged the city's modernization efforts.
Abstract: Documents the harrowing twelve-day period in Chicago in 1919 during which a blimp crash, a race riot, a crippling transit strike, and a sensational child murder case challenged the city's modernization efforts