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CHICAGO :THEN AND NOW

SIGNED BY RICHARD DALEY (MAYOR OF CHICAGO)

By Elizabeth McNulty

Published by Thunder Bay Press , San Diego, California 2000

This book is a larger HARDCOVER in fine condition with 144 pages , index and lots of Color and black and white photographs. The dust jacket is also in fine condition.

Inscribed by RICHARD DALEY (MAYOR OF CHICAGO)

FROM THE COVER == Within fifty years of its incorporation in 1833 Chicago had become America\'s second largest city. Situated at the western end of the east-west Great Lakes system, and connected to the north-south Mississippi River trade by a canal, Chicago acted as \"golden funnel\" to process and ship east the bounty of the prairie. Opportunities were plentiful, and Chicago seemed unstoppably prosperous.

It had all looked very different on October 8, 1871, when the Great Chicago Fire raged through the town, laying waste to nearly four square miles of the city. Chicago\'s future lay in tatters, or so her detractors and rivals thought. With \"all gone but energy\" Chicagoans went to work. Within two years, the entire city was rebuilt; within twelve, the city hosted the World\'s Columbian Exposition, earning the nickname \"The Windy City\" for her boastfulness.

The other positive to emerge from the Great Fire was the attraction of the nation\'s foremost architects. Chicago was a blank slate with no traditions but big ambitions. The resulting advances in skyscraper technology have led critics to hail Chicago as the \"world capital of modern architecture.\" From the 1890s, Chicago\'s skyline sprouted a thicket of tall buildings and is today home to three of the tallest buildings in the world. Chicago is a diverse and dynamic city with a vast surfeit of attractions--the Art Institute, Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, the Magnificent Mile, \"duh\" Bulls (Bears, Cubs, etc.), world-famous comedy (Second City), the world-famous theater (Steppenwolf, Goodman), and, of course, the blues.

Chicago Then and Now pairs archival, black-and-white photos from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with full-color views from today to tell a story of the city\'s history. It is a great story of determination and pride, and these evocative photos reflect the many faces of Chicago\'s heritage.

INTRODUCTION == It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago , she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them,\" wrote Mark Twain in 1883, when Chicago was just fifty years old. In that half-century, the city had grown to be the second largest in the nation, billing itself as \"Boss City of the Universe.\" Not bad for a swampy parcel of land along a sludgy river, but then, Chicago\'s official civic motto is \"I Will!\"

The first Europeans to reach the area, Jesuit Jacques Marquette and fur trader Louis Joliet arrived from the south in the fall of 1673. They paddled up the Mississippi into the Illinois and Des Plaines rivers, at which point they had to portage. They took a Native American trail, which led them to the south branch of the Chicago River, which in turn flowed northward into Lake Michigan. Joliet recognized the otherwise-dismal region\'s potential immediately: It would only be necessary to make a short canal to link the east-west Great Lakes system with that great north-south trade corridor, the Mississippi.

On a vast sweeping plain beside the \"great water,\" the spongy area around the slow little river\'s mouth was called che-cau-gou by the Potawatomi Indians after the wild onion plants that grew there in abundance. The first permanent non-Native American resident of Chicago was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a black French fur trader, who built a cabin on the north bank of the river in about 1779. The region passed from French to American hands and was incorporated as the \"Town of Chicago\" (population 300) in 1833.

With the development of the Illinois & Michigan canal in 1848, and the city\'s early simultaneous investment in railroads, Chicago became the leader in cattle, hog, lumber, and wheat industries, acting as a \"golden funnel\" to process and ship east the bounty of the prairie. Opportunities were plentiful, and by the mid-1850s, immigrants poured in at a rate of 100,000 a year. Chicago\'s secure location made it the Union\'s preeminent supply hub during the Civil War, and postwar Chicago seemed unstoppably prosperous.

Then, on October 8, 1871, the Great Chicago Fire raged through the town, laying waste to nearly four square miles of the city. With more than $200 million in damage and one-third the city\'s population homeless, Chicago\'s future lay in tatters, or so her detractors and rivals thought. \"Chicago shall rise again!\" crowed the local newspaper, and with \"all gone but energy\" Chicagoans went to work. Within two years, the entire city was rebuilt; within twelve, the city hosted twelve million guests at the World\'s Columbian Exposition, earning the nickname \"The Windy City\" for her boastfulness. The Great Fire united the citizenry as never before. By the late 1800s, Chicago had a population of over a million, placing her squarely behind a great city of the east. When a New Yorker deprecatingly referred to \"the Second City,\" Chicago took up the moniker with pride.

The other positive to emerge from the Great Fire was the attraction of the nation\'s foremost architects. Chicago was wide open, a blank slate with no traditions but big \'ambitions. The resulting advances in skyscraper technology have led critics to hail Chicago as the \"world capital of modern architecture.\" From the 1890s forward, Chicago\'s skyline sprouted a thicket of tall buildings, first masonry, then steel-framed, and is today home to three of the tallest buildings in the world. It was in Chicago that Louis Sullivan pioneered \"functionalism\" creating what is known today as the soaring Chicago School. Sullivan\'s student, Frank Lloyd Wright, revolutionized residential architecture. Instead of soaring, Wright\'s Prairie School designs take their inspiration from the horizontal planes of the Midwest and hug the earth.

Throughout, the \"City of Big Shoulders\" has had a reputation for toughness. \"It is inhabited by savages,\" Rudyard Kipling wrote in 1889. Site of some of America\'s most notorious labor unrest (the Haymarket Affair, the Pullman Strike), Chicago became infamous for immigrant, and not to mention sanitation, abuse in Upton Sinclair\'s meat-packing expose The Jungle. Political corruption was rampant, as was pollution. In the twenties, Chicago was that \"toddlin\' town,\" a hangout for the nation\'s most nefarious crooks and gangsters (Dillinger, Moran, Capone). Then, with the post-World War II influx of African Americans, the city developed a rep as among the most segregated of northern cities. Chicago is still fighting to right these wrongs, and signs—such as the election of the city\'s first black mayor in 1983—suggest the situation is improving.

Chicago today is a diverse and dynamic city, melding her status as international capital of commerce with down-home Midwestern good nature. Boston, Philadelphia, and New York owe big debts to European tradition, but Chicago, with her broad, spacious streets so perfectly rectilinear, and her gigantic, rule-breaking architecture, is one hundred percent American. Chicago is America\'s immigrant city, a patchwork of neighborhoods creating a great American quilt. Home to the largest Polish population outside of Warsaw, Chicago also contains tight-knit communities of Mexican, Russian, Irish, Italian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Czech, Croatian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Armenian, Assyrian, and Indian immigrants (just to name a few!). With a vast surfeit of attractions—the Art Institute, Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, the Magnificent Mile, \"duh\" Bulls (Bears, Cubs, etc), world-famous comedy (Second City), and world-famous theater (Steppenwolf, Goodman), not to forget the blues—\"Sweet home Chicago\" is an American city second to none. Chicago Then and Now pairs archival, black-and-white photos from the nineteenth and early twentieth century with full-color views from today to tell a story of the city\'s history. Historic photos may not exist for every street or neighborhood; likewise, historic streets or neighborhoods in a boomtown like Chicago may themselves no longer exist. Pairs have been selected based on symmetry (or lack of it), historic importance, and popular interest.

LOST CHICAGO FROM 1870s to 2000s

By John Paulett and Judy Floodstrand

Published by Pavilion Books , London England

2012 FIRST EDITION

This book is a larger HARDCOVER in fine condition with 144 pages , index and lots of Color and black and white photographs. The dust jacket is also in fine condition.

FROM THE COVER == Like a parallel universe, an entire city could be formed with the lost buildings of Chicago\'s past. Lost Chicago is a walk through this virtual metropolis. More than an architectural tour, it is a fascinating view of the city\'s ever-changing landscape and way of life, from magnificent buildings like the Federal Building (featured on the cover) to the glorious mansions of Chicago\'s wealthy elite and baseball parks that now exist only in photographs. Filled with intriguing photographs on every page, the book illustrates both the city\'s distant and recent past, from the mid-nineteenth century and the disastrous Great Fire of 1871 through the first decade of the twenty-first. It follows a chronology of constant change, charting the years when the major features of the city were destroyed, altered or abandoned.

Forests of tall-masted ships along the Chicago River; charabancs, cable cars and electric trolleys; Riverview amusement park; the great Columbian Exposition buildings of 1893; grand movie palaces and the Union Stock Yards are all only memories. Buildings that once towered twenty-one stories over the city the Masonic Temple have been razed to the ground to be succeeded by an even taller generation of skyscrapers.

These lost places are interwoven with engrossing stories of the multi-millionaires, architects, social pioneers and entrepreneurs who shaped Chicago. They are a record of historic events, of disasters, of rapid progress and a fierce determination to overcome obstacles befitting a city that can reverse the flow of its river and create towering structures on Chicago clay. The dynamic forces that created the windy city have left a trail of memorable yet neglected history as amazing as the city today.

FEININGER\'S CHICAGO , 1941 : 65 PHOTOGRAPHS

By Andreas Feininger

Published by Dover , New York , 1980

This book is a pictorial soft cover in fine condition with 80 pages, Introduction and 65 black and white photographs.

FROM THE COVER == Andreas Feininger was a struggling young photographer, living in New York City, when he got the idea to do a picture essay on Chicago for Life magazine. He obtained Life\'s approval of the project; drove to Chicago; took a total of 312 shots in twenty days; and put together a selection of the best pictures for his essay. Unfortunately, the magazine never used these remarkable photographs. It was 1941, and the more pressing stories of the time took precedence. Sixty of Feininger\'s best pictures from 1941, plus 5 pictures of Chicago taken in 1948, can now be seen, most of them for the first time, in this breath-taking volume.

Let an acknowledged master of photography show you Chicago as he once saw it: trains roaring overhead on the el, drawbridges spanning the Chicago River, sprawling South Side slums, the immensity of Union Station and the Union Stockyards, the splendor of Lake Shore Drive, Wabash Avenue, State Street, the ghetto market on Maxwell Street, Lake Michigan beaches, spectacular views from the Chicago Tribune Building, and mere—the most fascinating aspects of one of the world\'s most dynamic cities.

During the 1940s and 50s, when Life was the top picture magazine in the world, Andreas Feininger contributed many picture essays of lasting value and established himself as one of Life\'s top photographers. He also authored several photographic instruction books that are highly regarded, and he has recently put together a new collection of his photographs on New York in New York in the Forties and revised two earlier collections for republication Stone and Man and The Anatomy of Nature. Anyone who knows Mr. Feininger\'s work will surely want to have this new volume a personal view of Chicago that is also a unique document of a city and an era.

MORE ABOUT == Andreas Bernhard Lyonel Feininger (27 December 1906 – 18 February 1999) was an American photographer and a writer on photographic technique. He was noted for his dynamic black-and-white scenes of Manhattan and for studies of the structures of natural objects.

Feininger was born in Paris, France, to Julia Berg and Lyonel Feininger, an American of German origin. A painter, his father was born in New York City, in 1871. His great-grandfather emigrated from Durlach, Baden, in Germany, to the United States in 1848. His younger brother was the painter, T. Lux Feininger (1910-2011), who had begun his professional career as a photographer. Feininger grew up and was educated as an architect in Germany, where his father painted and taught, at Staatliches Bauhaus. In 1936, he gave up architecture and moved to Sweden, where he focused on photography. In advance of World War II, in 1939, Feininger immigrated to the U.S. where he established himself as a freelance photographer. In 1943 he joined the staff of Life magazine, an association that lasted until 1962.

Feininger became famous for his photographs of New York. Other frequent subjects among his works were science and nature, as seen in bones, shells, plants, and minerals in the images of which he often stressed their structure. Rarely did he photograph people or make portraits, however, when he did, they became iconic.

Feininger wrote comprehensive manuals about photography, of which the best known is The Complete Photographer. In the introduction to one of Feininger\'s books of photographs, Ralph Hattersley, the editor of the photography journal Infinity, described him as \"one of the great architects who helped create photography as we know it today.\" In 1966, the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) awarded Feininger its highest distinction, the Robert Leavitt Award. In 1991, the International Center of Photography awarded Feininger the Infinity Lifetime Achievement Award. Today, Feininger\'s photographs are in the permanent collections of the Center for Creative Photography, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, London\'s Victoria and Albert Museum, and the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York.

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