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Nauvoo: Kingdom on the Mississippi
A Guide to Chicago's Murals
Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman
Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman

By Carl S. Smith

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The Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the Haymarket bombing of 1886, and the making and unmaking of the model town of Pullman - these remarkable events in what many considered the quintessential American...

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Chicago under Glass: Early Photographs from the Chicago Daily News
Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman
Building for the Centuries: Illinois, 1865 to 1898
Quiet dell
Quiet dell

By Jayne Anne Phillips

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"In Chicago in 1931, Asta Eicher, mother of three, is lonely and despairing, pressed for money after the sudden death of her husband. She begins to receive seductive letters from a chivalrous, eleg...

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Selected early Mississippian household sites in the American Bottom
Marion Mahony Reconsidered

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