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A little history of a great city
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- Frederic William Bond ; an informal presentation of the author's impressions of the most significant episodes in the birth, struggles and growth of the wonder city of the world, Chicago ; illustrationed by Robert E. Bartlett
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- English
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- Chicago, Ill. : written, put in type, printed and bound, by the author, 1930
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- 137, [1] pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
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- on1081423359
- "Chicago, destined to greatness since the creation of the world" (Chicago's geographical advantage) -- "Father Marquette blazed a trail that the millions have since followed" (French appreciation for Chicago's future) -- "There were trying days that tested the mettle of the bravest of men" (The first Fort Dearborn and the massacre) -- "Chicago starts building on the site of its first courageous endeavors" (From the second fort to the advent of the railroads) -- "A clapboard city that was little more than 'boxes' on stilts in mud" (View of the city in the 40's and 50's) -- "A vital, youthful town rapidly becomes a striding giant among cities" (Chicago, from Civil War to the Great Fire) -- "A curtain of fire drawn between an era of wood and one of steel" (The Chicago fire of 1871) -- "The new city built on a foundation whose cornerstone read 'I will'" (From the Great Fire to the Fair of 1893) -- "The Chicago of today, a monument to an American Century of Progress" (The city today, and A Century of Progress)