Title & Author:

History of Chicago, Illinois / [edited by Hon. John ] Moses [and Maj. Joseph] Kirkland ; aided by eminent local writers.

Publication:

Chicago ; New York : Munsell & Co., 1895.
©1895

Description:

2 volumes : illustrations, plates, portraits ; 29 cm

Notes:
At head of title: Aboriginal to metropolitan.
Added title pages, illus. Full statement of responsibility taken from this title page.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pre-historic agencies -- Rise and fall of French dominion -- First permanent settlement -- The massacre -- Rudimentary : the log cabin age -- From 1830 to 1837 : the balloon age -- From 1837 to 1849 : the period of collapse, stagnation and revival -- 1849-1860 -- 1860-1870 -- Chicago in the Civil War -- 1870-1880 : from destruction to reconstruction -- 1880-1890 : the second city -- 1891-1893 -- Trade and commerce -- Railroad history -- Banks and banking -- Real estate and insurance -- Biographical.

Summary:

"For the student of geology have been succinctly set forth the operation of the pre-historic influences which were at work upon the site of Chicago ages before man trod upon the earth. Following this is a complete and connected, though condensed, narrative history of the 'Garden City,' through its various stages of village, town and municipality, showing the formative causes and describing the central events of each decade in Chicago's civic, financial and political relations. In connection with this narrative history, but following it, many subjects of special interest or importance have been treated topically. Among the most prominent of these may be enumerated : trade and commerce, the railroad interests centering in Chicago, the enormous manufacturing industries, the financial institutions of the city, public works, the parks, the drainage canal, bridges, tunnels, intramural transit, the bench and bar (to which is appended a special chapter relating to notable trials), the growth of religion as shown by church history, the professions of medicine and dentistry, the steadily growing influence of the press, libraries, authors, art, amusements, clubs, homes, and the labor disturbances of 1894" -- Preface.

Subject:

Chicago (Ill.) History.
Chicago (Ill.) Biography.
Chicago (Ill.) Histoire.
Illinois Chicago

Form/genre:

Biographies
History

Added entries:

Moses, John, 1825-1898, editor.
Kirkland, Joseph, 1830-1894, editor.
W.W. Munsell & Co.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 137658
Call No.: 3754; ID:86-B9217
Copy: 2 vols.
Status: Available