City of scoundrels the twelve days of disaster that gave birth to modern Chicago
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- ISBN: 0307454312 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780307454317 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource : ill., ports., maps
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electronic resource - Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, c2012.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from Adobe Epub title page (Overdrive, viewed June 1, 2012). |
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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.