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Free Download Margaret Hicks, "Chicago Comedy:: A Fairly Serious History"
English | ISBN: 1609492110 | 2011 | 128 pages | EPUB | 1028 KB
Famous for being a city of broad shoulders, Chicago has also developed an international reputation for split sides and slapped knees. Watch the Chicago style of comedy evolve from nineteenth-century vaudeville, through the rebellious comics of the ’50s and into the improvisation and sketch that ushered in a new millennium. Drawing on material both hilarious and profound, Chicago Comedy: A Fairly Serious History touches on what makes Chicago different from other cities and how that difference produced some of the greatest minds comedy will ever know: Amos ‘n’ Andy, Jack Benny, Lenny Bruce, Del Close, John Belushi, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert and so many, many more.

Free Download Not For Tourists Guide to Chicago 2025 by Not For Tourists
English | October 1, 2024 | ISBN: 1510781056 | 336 pages | MOBI | 84 Mb
The Not For Tourists Guide to Chicago is a map-based, neighborhood-by-neighborhood dream guide that divides Chi-Town into sixty mapped neighborhoods from Gold Coast and Lincoln Park to Wrigleyville and Lakeview.

Free Download Not For Tourists Guide to Chicago 2025 (Not For Tourists) by Not For Tourists
English | October 1st, 2024 | ISBN: 1510781056 | 336 pages | True EPUB | 137.48 MB
The Not For Tourists Guide to Chicago is a map-based, neighborhood-by-neighborhood dream guide that divides Chi-Town into sixty mapped neighborhoods from Gold Coast and Lincoln Park to Wrigleyville and Lakeview.

Free Download The Dragon from Chicago: The Untold Story of an American Reporter in Nazi Germany (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLHHDRJK | 2024 | 9 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 276 MB
Author: Pamela D. Toler
Narrator: DeDe Cordell
A captivating look at Sigrid Schultz-one of the earliest reporters to warn Americans of the rising threat of the Nazi regime. We are facing an alarming upsurge in the spread of misinformation and attempts by powerful figures to discredit facts so they can seize control of narratives. These are threats American journalist Sigrid Schultz knew all too well. The Chicago Tribune’s Berlin bureau chief and primary foreign correspondent for Central Europe from 1925 to January 1941, Schultz witnessed Hitler’s rise to power and was one of the first reporters-male or female-to warn American readers of the growing dangers of Nazism.

Free Download Tom Tresser, "No Games Chicago: How A Small Group of Citizens Derailed the City’s 2016 Olympic Bid"
English | ISBN: 1032734736 | 2024 | 228 pages | PDF | 78 MB
Promoted as a prestigious economic opportunity and often aggressively sought by local leaders, hosting a modern Olympics can in fact be a "city-killer" that racks up billions of dollars in over-budget expenses, degrades the environment, and shreds civil liberties. This book recounts the successful efforts of grassroots organization No Games Chicago to derail Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics in an entertaining case study of local activism with international reach. The group’s detailed strategies and tactics provide a much-needed playbook for scholars, journalists, and activists seeking people-powered alternatives to megaprojects and other tourism-centric economic development schemes.

Free Download Michael Duffy, "From Chicago to Vietnam: A Memoir of War"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1087930464, 1629013676 | EPUB | pages: 328 | 3.1 mb
In the early hours of January 31, 1968, eighty-thousand North Vietnamese and Vietcong combat troops attacked every major city and military base in South Vietnam. The perimeter of the massive Saigon Airbase, Tan Son Nhut, was breached, and fighting raged all morning.

Free Download Ron Kittle, Bob Logan, Roland Hemond, "Tales from the Chicago White Sox Dugout: A Collection of the Greatest White Sox Stories Ever Told"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1683582152, 1613212186 | EPUB | pages: 204 | 1.3 mb
The 1983 American League West champion Chicago White Sox will forever be remembered by their trademark slogan "Winning Ugly." One of the stars of that colorful bunch that rocked old Comiskey Park was an unlikely hero, a twenty-five-year-old rookie from Northwest Indiana. Ron Kittle led the 1983 White Sox with 35 home runs, 100 RBIs, and Rookie of the Year honors. Now Kittle shares the adventures, struggles, and triumphs of his incredible journey. A one-of-a-kind collection of stories, anecdotes, and humor, this newly-updated edition ofTales from the Chicago White Sox Dugout opens a window into the life of more than just one Sox legend. Kittle shares insights about manager Tony La Russa, catcher Carlton Fisk, outfielder Harold Baines, Cy Young winner LaMarr Hoyt, and a host of others. Peppered with stories from on and off the field, Tales from the Chicago White Sox Dugout catalogs more than just stats and facts; Kittle shares inspiring stories of overcoming the physical pain he dealt with every day, as well as his dedication to raising funds for charity, adventures in the dugout, and so much more.

Free Download Isaura Pulido, Angelica Rivera, Ann M. Aviles, "Latina/o/x Education in Chicago: Roots, Resistance, and Transformation"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0252044509, 0252086570 | EPUB | pages: 254 | 1.6 mb
In this collection, local experts use personal narratives and empirical data to explore the history of Mexican American and Puerto Rican education in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) system. The essays focus on three themes: the historical context of segregated and inferior schooling for Latina/o/x students; the changing purposes and meanings of education for Latina/o/x students from the 1950s through today; and Latina/o/x resistance to educational reforms grounded in neoliberalism. Contributors look at stories of student strength and resistance, the oppressive systems forced on Mexican American women, the criminalization of Puerto Ricans fighting for liberatory education, and other topics of educational significance. As they show, many harmful past practices remain the norm-or have become worse. Yet Latina/o/x communities and students persistently engage in transformative practices shaping new approaches to education that promise to reverberate not only in the city but nationwide.

Free Download Micah Salkind, "Do You Remember House?: Chicago’s Queer of Color Undergrounds"
English | ISBN: 0190698411 | 2019 | 352 pages | AZW3 | 8 MB
Today, no matter where you are in the world, you can turn on a radio and hear the echoes and influences of Chicago house music. Do You Remember House? tells a comprehensive story of the emergence, and contemporary memorialization of house in Chicago, tracing the development of Chicago house music culture from its beginnings in the late ’70s to the present. Based on expansive research in archives and his extensive conversations with the makers of house in Chicago’s parks, clubs, museums, and dance studios, author Micah Salkind argues that the remediation and adaptation of house music by crossover communities in its first decade shaped the ways that Chicago producers, DJs, dancers, and promoters today re-remember and mobilize the genre as an archive of collectivity and congregation.

Free Download George C. McNamee, "The Trial of the Chicago 7: The Official Transcript"
English | 2020 | pages: 384 | ISBN: 1982155086 | EPUB | 34,5 mb
Republished fifty years later to coincide with the release of the Academy Award-nominated film of the same title written and directed by Aaron Sorkin with an all-star cast, this is the classic account of perhaps the most infamous, and definitely the most entertaining, trial in recent American history.