Al Capone and the 1933 World's Fair: The End of the Gangster Era in Chicago, Paperback - William Elliott Hazelgrove

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Reducere. DescriptionChicago's World's Columbian Exposition, popularly called the Chicago World's Fair, or the White City, was the largest and most spectacul...

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Reducere. When her husband was murdered on the orders of Chicago mobster Frank Nitti, Georgette Winkeler--wife of one of Al Capone's "American Boys"--set out...

Reducere. It took six years and cost $100 million, but on May 27, 1933, the gates swung open on the biggest birthday party the city of Chicago had ever seen....

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It's 1893, and Lorraine Williams can't wait to attend the Chicago World's Fair and see her idol, the Black opera singer Sissieretta Jones. But when...

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Reducere. The machine-gun murders of seven men on the morning of February 14, 1929, by killers dressed as cops became the gangland crime of the century."" Or...

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The story and history of the world's favourite flower through 40 of the most popular and interesting species and hybrids.

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The familiar old world of classical music, with its wealthy donors and ornate concert halls, is changing. The patronage of a wealthy few is being r...

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Over the last three decades, Italian crime fiction has demonstrated a trend toward a much higher level of realism and complexity. The origins of th...

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Reducere. DescriptionFalling in between the dark days of the Great Depression and World War II, the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair offered a refreshing pred...

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Examines the history of the mapping sciences in the twentieth century and their relationship to the history of territory

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Reducere. The story of black Chicago is so rich that few know it all. It began long before the city itself. The first white man here was a black man, Potowat...