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Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
$17.95 Add to cartOn May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a sensational trial, that c… [more below]
- Author: Green, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 13 2007
- ISBN10: 1400033225
- Language: English
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Hegewisch
$24.99 Read moreFounded in 1884 as the company town of the United States Rolling Stock Company, Hegewisch became Chicago’s most remote and isolated neighborhood in 1889. Surrounded by waterways and railroads, the com… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Ogorek, Cynthia L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1467160660
- Language: English
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Underground Fire: Hope, Sacrifice, and Courage in the Cherry Mine Disaster
$24.99 Read moreA historic mine fire traps hundreds of men underground in a gripping work of narrative nonfiction meticulously researched and told by a master of the genre.
It is November 13, 1909, and the coal mine- Author: Walker, Sally M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1536212407
- Language: English
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Dog Diaries #9: Sparky (Dog Diaries Special Edition)
$8.99 Add to cartIn this Dog Diaries-meets-Horse Diaries Special Crossover Edition, a no-nonsense fire dog meets her match in the biggest, hottest flames Chicago has ever seen–and a rescue horse with an attitude
In- Series: Dog Diaries #9
- Author: Klimo, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 26 2016
- ISBN10: 0553534939
- Language: English
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The Conspiracy Trial of the Chicago Seven
$23.00 Add to cartIn 1969, the Chicago Seven were charged with intent to “incite, organize, promote, and encourage” antiwar riots during the chaotic 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The defendants includ
- Author: Schultz, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 04 2020
- ISBN10: 022676074X
- Language: English
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What Was the Great Chicago Fire?
$7.99 Add to cartDid the Great Chicago Fire really start after a cow kicked over a lantern in a barn? Find out the truth in this addition to the What Was? series.
On Sunday, October 8, 1871, a fire started on the sout- Series: What Was?
- Author: Pascal, Janet B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 25, 2016
- ISBN10: 0399541586
- Language: English
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The Great Fire
$14.99 Add to cartJim Murphy’s Newbery Honor Book available for the first time in paperback.
The Great Fire of 1871 was one of most colossal disasters in American history. Overnight, the flourshing city of Chicago was t… [more below]
- Author: Murphy, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 439203074
- Language: English
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I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871 (I Survived #11): Volume 11
$5.99 Add to cartCould an entire city really burn to the ground?
Oscar Starling never wanted to come to Chicago. But then Oscar finds himself not just in the heart of the big city, but in the middle of a terrible fire
- Series: I Survived #11
- Author: Tarshis, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 24, 2015
- ISBN10: 0545658462
- Language: English
