Mysterious Chicago (eBook)

History at Its Coolest

Adam Selzer (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
276 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5107-1345-1 (ISBN)

Infos

From Chicago historian Adam Selzer, expert on all of the Windy Citys quirks and oddities, comes a compelling heavily researched anthology of the stories behind its most fascinating unsolved mysteries.To create this unique volume, Selzer has collected forty unsolved mysteries from the 1800s to modern day. He has poured through all newspaper, magazine, and book references to them, and consulted expert historians. Topics covered include who really started the great Chicago fire, who was the first automobile murderer, and even if there was actually a vampire slaying at Rose Hill cemetery.The result is both a colorful read to get lost in, a window to a world of curiosity and wonder, as well as a volume that separates fact from fictiontrue crime from urban legend.Complementing the gripping stories Selzer presents are original images of the crime and its suspects as developed by its original investigators. Readers will marvel at how each character and crime were presented, and happily journey with Selzer as he presents all facts and theories presented at the time of the crime and uses modern hindsight to assemble the pieces.

Autor

Adam Selzer is the host of the Mysterious Chicago blog, podcasts, and tours, and has spent many years researching the more gruesome side of Chicago history—criminals, ghost stories, gangsters, mysteries, and folklore. He regularly writes Chicago history stories for websites such as TimeOut.com and Atlas Obscura, and speaks about it on WGN radio. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.10.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: 12-day • 1919 • Al Capone • american city • American Culture • American dream • bank building • Bauhaus • bill thompson • Black Belt • blimp crash • century chicago • Chicagoans • chicago cop • chicago fire • chicago history • chicago mob • chicago police • chicago politics • Chicago River • chicago's history • chicago street • chicago style • Citys • city's history simone de • Cruising • Cultural History • der rohe • dirigible • downtown chicago • financial district • gary krist • goodyear • governor frank • Gropius • Gwendolyn Brooks • history buff • history lesson • Hugh Hefner • illinois neighborhoods • july 21 • krist's • kroc • kukla fran • Lake Michigan • louis sullivan • lowden • Lundin • Mahalia Jackson • mayor richard • Mayors • MCC • mean streets • Midwest • mies van • modern chicago • Moholy-Nagy • Nelson Algren • Organized Crime • Police officers • political machine • Prohibition • race riots • richard daley • ring lardner • rioting • Rocks • Sandburg • scandal • Scoundrels • skylight • street cop • Studs Terkel • Sun Ra • transit strike • urban america • Urban History • van der • white cascade • White City • white sox • Windy City
• ISBN-10: 1-5107-1345-X / 151071345X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-1345-1 / 9781510713451