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"An extraordinary story of faith and violence in nineteenth-century America, based on previously confidential documents from the Mormon Church. Compared to the Puritans, Mormons have rarely gotten their due, often treated as fringe cultists or marginalized polygamists unworthy of serious examination. In Kingdom of Nauvoo, Benjamin E. Park excavates the brief, tragic life of a lost Mormon city, demonstrating that the Mormons are essential to understanding...
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Victor Hicken tells the richly detailed story of the common soldiers who marched from Illinois to fight and die on Civil War battlefields. The second edition of the 1966 classic includes a new preface, twenty-four illustrations, and a twenty-five-page addendum to the bibliography that provides many new sources of information on Illinois regiments.
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Set against a backdrop of social change during the 1970s, State is a compelling first-person account of what it was like to live through both traditional gender discrimination in sports and the joy of the very first days of equality-or at least the closest that one high school girls' basketball team ever came to it. In 1975, freshman Melissa Isaacson-along with a group of other girls who'd spent summers with their noses pressed against the fences...
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Whether you're a born-and-raised Illinoisan, a recent transplant, or just passing through, “Illinois Curiosities” will have you laughing out loud as Richard Moreno takes you on a rollicking tour of the strangest sides of the Prairie State.
Take a date to the World's Largest Laundromat, a 13,500-square-foot facility in Berwyn with 153 washers and 148 dryers in nearly constant use.
Enter Chicago's "sub" culture with a museum visit to the U-505,...
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All areas of the state are covered: from Galena, Nauvoo, and Belleville to Chicago, Peoria, and Cairo and scores of details are provided on everything from women concocting dyes, potters and silversmiths advertising their wares, and women creating quilts out of hoarded scraps of cotton calico, to the lives of such itinerant artists as Sheldon Peck and Patrick Henry Davenport.
99) Haunts of the White City: ghost stories from the World's Fair, the Great Fire, and Victorian Chicago
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At the close of the nineteenth century, Chicago offered the world a glimpse of humanity's most breathtaking possibilities and its most jaw-dropping horrors. Even as the White City emerged from the ashes of the Great Fire, serial killers like H.H. Holmes stalked the sparkling new boulevards and tragic accidents plagued the factories, slums and railroads that powered the churn of industrial innovation. Demons, mesmerists and birds of ill omen preyed...
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