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Category : Tunnels
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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The Tunnels and watersystem of Chicago
Author: The Water Works System of the City of Chicago
Author: Chicago (Ill.). Commission on City ExpendituresPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
The Great Chicago Lake Tunnel
Author: Jack WingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The Tunnels and Water System of Chicago
Author: The Tunnel under the Lake
Author: Benjamin SellsPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810134744
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Tunnel under the Lake recounts the gripping story of how the young city of Chicago, under the leadership of an audacious engineer named Ellis Chesbrough, constructed a two-mile tunnel below Lake Michigan in search of clean water. Despite Chicago's location beside the world’s largest source of fresh water, its low elevation at the end of Lake Michigan provided no natural method of carrying away waste. As a result, within a few years of its founding, Chicago began to choke on its own sewage collecting near the shore. The befouled environment, giving rise to outbreaks of sickness and cholera, became so acute that even the ravages and costs of the U.S. Civil War did not distract city leaders from taking action. Chesbrough's solution was an unprecedented tunnel five feet in diameter lined with brick and dug sixty feet beneath Lake Michigan. Construction began from the shore as well as the tunnel’s terminus in the lake. With workers laboring in shifts and with clay carted away by donkeys, the lake and shore teams met under the lake three years later, just inches out of alignment. When it opened in March 1867, observers, city planners, and grateful citizens hailed the tunnel as the "wonder of America and of the world." Benjamin Sells narrates in vivid detail the exceptional skill and imagination it took to save this storied city from itself. A wealth of fascinating appendixes round out Sells’s account, which will delight those interested in Chicago history, water resources, and the history of technology and engineering.
Waterworks
Author: Stanley GreenbergPublisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 1568983883
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
A collection of photographs which profile the aqueducts, reservoirs, tunnels, gatehouses, and tanks of New York's water system.
The Chicago Freight Tunnels
Author: Chicago Tunnel Terminal CorporationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Forty Feet Below
Author: Bruce MoffatPublisher:
ISBN: 9780916374549
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Chicago by the Book
Author: Caxton ClubPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022646850X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Despite its rough-and-tumble image, Chicago has long been identified as a city where books take center stage. In fact, a volume by A. J. Liebling gave the Second City its nickname. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle arose from the midwestern capital’s most infamous industry. The great Chicago Fire led to the founding of the Chicago Public Library. The city has fostered writers such as Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Chicago’s literary magazines The Little Review and Poetry introduced the world to Eliot, Hemingway, Joyce, and Pound. The city’s robust commercial printing industry supported a flourishing culture of the book. With this beautifully produced collection, Chicago’s rich literary tradition finally gets its due. Chicago by the Book profiles 101 landmark publications about Chicago from the past 170 years that have helped define the city and its image. Each title—carefully selected by the Caxton Club, a venerable Chicago bibliophilic organization—is the focus of an illustrated essay by a leading scholar, writer, or bibliophile. Arranged chronologically to show the history of both the city and its books, the essays can be read in order from Mrs. John H. Kinzie’s 1844 Narrative of the Massacre of Chicago to Sara Paretsky’s 2015 crime novel Brush Back. Or one can dip in and out, savoring reflections on the arts, sports, crime, race relations, urban planning, politics, and even Mrs. O’Leary’s legendary cow. The selections do not shy from the underside of the city, recognizing that its grit and graft have as much a place in the written imagination as soaring odes and boosterism. As Neil Harris observes in his introduction, “Even when Chicagoans celebrate their hearth and home, they do so while acknowledging deep-seated flaws.” At the same time, this collection heartily reminds us all of what makes Chicago, as Norman Mailer called it, the “great American city.” With essays from, among others, Ira Berkow, Thomas Dyja, Ann Durkin Keating, Alex Kotlowitz, Toni Preckwinkle, Frank Rich, Don Share, Carl Smith, Regina Taylor, Garry Wills, and William Julius Wilson; and featuring works by Saul Bellow, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sandra Cisneros, Clarence Darrow, Erik Larson, David Mamet, Studs Terkel, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Frank Lloyd Wright, and many more.
The Water Supply System of Chicago
Author: Chicago (Ill.). Bureau of EngineeringPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water-supply
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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