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Illinois



link to catalog page CHA-JUA, America's First Black Town

America's First Black Town

Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830-1915

Author: Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2002

The courageous story of the first all-Black free town in the United States   learn more...

link to catalog page SMITH, The Fishes of Illinois Author: Philip W. Smith
Pub Date: 2002

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link to catalog page HOFFMEISTER, Mammals of Illinois Author: Donald F. Hoffmeister
Pub Date: 2002

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link to catalog page ADDAMS, A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil Author: Jane Addams
Pub Date: 2002

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link to catalog page ADDAMS, Peace and Bread in Time of War Author: Jane Addams
Pub Date: 2002

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link to catalog page HAYCRAFT, Yellow Steel

Yellow Steel

The Story of the Earthmoving Equipment Industry

Author: William R. Haycraft
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2002

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link to catalog page QUAIFE, Chicago and the Old Northwest, 1673-1835 Author: Milo Milton Quaife
Pub Date: 2001

This grand study surveys the emergence of Chicago from the swamps of southern Lake Michigan to the expulsion of the last Indian settlements. Pioneering historian Quaife, the first to document Chicago’s founding by a black man, traces Chicago from an outpost on the frontier to being the crossroads of American commerce.   learn more...

link to catalog page LEWIS, An Early Encounter with Tomorrow

An Early Encounter with Tomorrow

Europeans, Chicago's Loop, and the World's Columbian Exposition

Author: Arnold Lewis
Pub Date: 2001

For the first time in sixty years, Chicago and the development of Chicago’s Loop at a crucial and formative stage, is examined in light of its appearance, pace, and economic drive in a shattering encounter between Old-World assumptions and New-World realities.   learn more...

link to catalog page SHUMAN, Favorite Dishes

Favorite Dishes

A Columbian Autograph Souvenir Cookery Book

Author: Compiled by Carrie V. Shuman
Pub Date: 2001

Favorite Dishes affords an unusual and interesting look into the way the early women’s movement used conventional means to manipulate their way into a man’s world, and provides insight into how food, women, and American attitudes were changing at the end of a century.   learn more...

link to catalog page JENSEN, Illinois

Illinois

A History

Author: Richard J. Jensen
Pub Date: 2001

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