Bridgeport (Images of America) - Softcover

Bloom, Joanne Gazarek; Sullivan, Maureen F.; Pogorzelski, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0738577308 ISBN 13: 9780738577302

Verlag: ARCADIA PUB (SC), 2012

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Reseña del editor:

Explore Bridgeport, the most political neighborhood in the most political of cities--home to five Chicago mayors and parades of politicians honoring its power at national conventions. Once a Native American village traversed by Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet, as Chicago grew the area was called Hardscrabble, then Cabbage Gardens, and finally Bridgeport. Immigrants built it: the Irish dredged a canal and mined a quarry that led to slaughterhouses, cooperages, rolling mills, and breweries that were worked by Germans, Bohemians, Swedes, and Poles. Held dear as the "Heart of Lithuania," muckrakers described parts of it as a heartbreaking jungle. More immigrants came: Italians, Croatians, Mexicans, Chinese. Against the backdrop of prairies, labor strife, gangways, and Joe Podsajdwokiem, this sometimes uneasy mix lived, worked, and voted together. Bridgeport still has streets that defy the city's orderly grid, settlement houses, language stews, and, for each nationality, churches and taverns. Today, it may welcome artists and expensive housing, but on summer nights stoop sitting and rooting for the White Sox remain social obligations.

Biografía del autor:

JoAnne Gazarek Bloom and Maureen F. Sullivan are Chicagoans, Bridgeport born. JoAnne teaches at Loyola University Law School, and Maureen develops not-for-profit organizations on Chicago s South Side. Daniel Pogorzelski is vice president and chief historian for the Northwest Chicago Historical Society. He also coauthored Images of America: Portage Park.

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• Verlag: ARCADIA PUB (SC)
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0738577308
• ISBN 13: 9780738577302
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 127