Portage Park in Chicago, IL

Chicago's Urban Nature: A Guide to the City's Architecture + Landscape by Sally A. Kitt Chappell

Chicago-whose motto is "City in a Garden" more...0 points

Chicago-whose motto is "City in a Garden"-is currently at the forefront of a global movement to end the division between town and country. In Chicago's Urban Nature, Sally A. Kitt Chappell provides a beautifully illustrated guide to the city's stunning blend of nature and architecture.At the heart of this new urban concept is the idea of connection, bringing buildings and landscapes, culture and nature, commerce and leisure into an energetic harmony. With Chicago%u2...0 points

Millennium Park: Creating a Chicago Landmark (Historical Studies of Urban America) by Timothy J. Gilfoyle

At its opening on July 16, 2004, Chicago's Millenn more...0 points

At its opening on July 16, 2004, Chicago's Millennium Park was hailed as one of the most important millennium projects in the world. "Politicians come and go; business leaders come and go," proclaimed mayor Richard M. Daley, "but artists really define a city." Part park, part outdoor art museum, part cultural center, and part performance space, Millennium Park is now an unprecedented combination of distinctive architecture, monumental sculpture, and innovative landscapin...0 points

Lincoln Park, Chicago (IL) (Images of America) by Chicago Historical Society Melanie Ann Apel

Since it was founded by German immigrants in the l more...0 points

Since it was founded by German immigrants in the late 1800s, Chicagoís Lincoln Park neighborhood has been an exciting and ever-changing place to live. Bordered by Diversey, Ashland, North Avenue, and Lake Michigan, Lincoln Park has undergone countless changes while always remaining a strong Chicago community. ÝÝThrough a collection of more than 200 photographs, Lincoln Park, Chicago offers the reader a journey through homes, schools, businesses, museums, churches, the Lincoln Park Zoo, and the p...0 points

Comiskey Park (IL) (Images of Baseball) by Irwin J. Cohen

A first baseman, manager and owner of the St. Paul more...0 points

A first baseman, manager and owner of the St. Paul, Minnesota club in the Western League, Charles Comiskey moved the team to his native Chicago for the 1900 season and leased the home grounds of the Chicago Cricket Club at 39th and Wentworth.0 points

At Home in the Loop: How Clout and Community Built Chicago's Dearborn Park by Lois Wille

Lois Wille's illustrated account provides behind-t more...0 points

Lois Wille's illustrated account provides behind-the-scenes insight into how a small number of Chicago business leaders transformed the dangerous and seedy South Loop into an integrated and thriving community in the heart of the central city... 0 points

Park Life: The Summer of 1977 at Comiskey Park

Park Life is a magical and romantic look at one of more...0 points

Park Life is a magical and romantic look at one of Chicago's greatest legacies¾the enduring fans of the Chicago White Sox0 points

Rogers Park (IL) (Images of America) by Jacque Day Archer &, Jamie Santoro

Rogers Park bears the name of Philip McGregor Roge more...0 points

Rogers Park bears the name of Philip McGregor Rogers, an intrepid and enterprising Irish immigrant who purchased the first tract of land in the area in the 1830s, a time when it was prairie and woodland, populated by Native Americans and white birch trees. As the federal government forced the Native Americans west, European immigrants arrived in greater numbers, forming a community of woodcutters and farmers. The Great Chicago Fire ushered in an era of economic development, and in 1878, Rogers P...0 points

A Day at the Park: In Celebration of Wrigley Field by William Hartel

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Inspired by Nature: The Garfield Park Conservatory and Chicago's West Side by Julia Sniderman Bachrach, Jo Ann Nathan

One of the nation's most stunning and intriguing b more...0 points

One of the nation's most stunning and intriguing botanical havens, the Garfield Park Conservatory celebrates its one-hundredth anniversary in 2008. Often referred to as "landscape art under glass," Jens Jensen's revolutionary design is a poetic interpretation of his beloved Midwestern landscape as it was in prehistoric times. The tropical plantings, water features and stonework were in shocking contrast to the showy displays of typical Victorian hothouses, and his Conservator...0 points

Chicago's Beverly/Morgan Park Neighborhood (IL) (Images of America) by Joseph C. Oswald

Known as the ìVillage in the City,î the Beverly/ more...0 points

Known as the ìVillage in the City,î the Beverly/Morgan Park community developed as a country retreat for Chicagoís social, political, and economic elite after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The areaís geography also affected its development; a ridge formed by the last glacier to visit the area over 12,000 years ago placed the community at the highest elevation in the city and made it a perfect place to build large elaborate homes. With a section of the neighborhood designated as the Ridge Histo...0 points

University of Chicago and Hyde Park by Inc Hedberg Maps

Index includes U of C buildings, other schools, ho more...0 points

Index includes U of C buildings, other schools, hospitals, Museums & galleries, parks, arenas & theaters, bookstores, and streets. Folded laminate.0 points