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Between 1870 and 1900, Chicago grew from a city of 299,000 to nearly 1.7 million and was the fastest-growing city in world history. Chicago's flourishing economy attracted huge numbers of new immigrants from Eastern and Central Europe, especially Jews, Poles, and Italians, along with many smaller groups.
Toronto is one of six North American cities (alongside Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and the New York Tri-state area) to have won titles in its five major leagues (MLB, NHL, NBA, MLS and either NFL or CFL), and the only one to have done so in the Canadian Football League.
Filled with the city’s one-of-a-kind characters and all of its defining moments, Chicago: A Biography is as big and boisterous as its namesake—and as ambitious as the men and women who built it. Read More. See a gallery of photographs from the book. 472 pages | 145 halftones, 7 maps | 6 x 9 | © 2009. Chicago and Illinois.
It exists in both a hardcover print edition and an online format, known as the Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago. [2] The print edition is 1117 pages and includes 1400 entries, 2000 biographical sketches, 250 significant business enterprise descriptions, and hundreds of maps.
Media in category "History of Chicago". The following 113 files are in this category, out of 113 total. 1678 La Salle Petitions King Louis XIV.png 368 × 626; 276 KB. 1687 Henri Joutel gives etymology of Chicago as from the word for garlic, Chicagou.png 515 × 81; 33 KB. 1713 Joutel Title Page Last Voyage of La Salle.png 208 × 380; 140 KB.
15 Οκτ 2009 · Filled with the city’s one-of-a-kind characters and all of its defining moments, Chicago: A Biography is as big and boisterous as its namesake—and as ambitious as the men and women who...
Media in category "20th-century photographs of Chicago" The following 78 files are in this category, out of 78 total. Water Tower Place Chicago elevator 1978 looking down.jpg 3,784 × 6,608; 10.57 MB
