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  Title

  City of scoundrels : the twelve days of disaster that gave birth to modern Chicago

  Author

  Krist, Gary.  

  Publisher:

  Crown Publishers,

  Pub date:

  c2012.

  Pages:

  347 p., [8] p. of plates :

  ISBN:

  9780307454294

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library.
  

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    Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    F548.5 .K75 2012	1	Book	Available, On shelf

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  ISBN:

  9780307454294

  ISBN:

  0307454290

  Personal Author:

  Krist, Gary.

  Title:

  City of scoundrels : the twelve days of disaster that gave birth to modern Chicago / Gary Krist.

  Edition:

  1st ed.

  Publication info:

  New York : Crown Publishers, c2012.

  Physical description:

  347 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports., maps ; 25 cm.

  Summary:

  Documents the harrowing twelve-day period in Chicago in 1919 during which a blimp crash, a race riot, a crippling transit strike, and a sensational child murder case challenged the city's modernization efforts.

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  TODD

  Subject term:

  Disasters--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.

  Geographic term:

  Chicago (Ill.)--History--20th century.

  Geographic term:

  Chicago (Ill.)--Civilization.

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