Whats Great About Illinois

Author : Kate Boehm Jerome
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781589730199
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Massachusetts written by Kate Boehm Jerome and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents information and facts about Massachusetts, including famous people, places, and events associated with the state.

Author : Kristin Marciniak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781467777223
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What's Great about Illinois? written by Kristin Marciniak and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Josh Gregory
Publisher : Children's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780531232866
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Illinois written by Josh Gregory and published by Children's Press. This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book details the history, culture, geography and government of Illinois."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Best Books on
Publisher : Best Books on
ISBN 13 : 1623760127
Total Pages : 775 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Illinois; a Descriptive and Historical Guide, written by Best Books on and published by Best Books on. This book was released on 1939 with total page 775 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: originally compiled and written by the Federal writersþ project for the state of Illinois. Rev., with additions, in 1946.

Author : Michael Lotus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692300862
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Illinois, a Great Future written by Michael Lotus and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joesph Smith
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781475118483
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The United States written by Joesph Smith and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-04-07 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's so special about Illinois? Illinois is the 25th most extensive and the 5th most populous of the 50 United States, and is often noted as a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal, timber, and petroleum in the south, Illinois has a broad economic base. Illinois is a major transportation hub. The Port of Chicago connects the state to other global ports from the Great Lakes, via the St. Lawrence Seaway, to the Atlantic Ocean; as well as the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River, via the Illinois River. For decades, O'Hare International Airport has ranked as one of the world's busiest airports. Illinois has long had a reputation as a bellwether both in social and cultural terms and politics.In the 1810s, settlers began arriving from Kentucky. Find out more about Illinois now ...

Author : James W. Loewen
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620974541
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sundown Towns written by James W. Loewen and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Powerful and important . . . an instant classic." —The Washington Post Book World The award-winning look at an ugly aspect of American racism by the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, reissued with a new preface by the author In this groundbreaking work, sociologist James W. Loewen, author of the classic bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, brings to light decades of hidden racial exclusion in America. In a provocative, sweeping analysis of American residential patterns, Loewen uncovers the thousands of "sundown towns"—almost exclusively white towns where it was an unspoken rule that blacks weren't welcome—that cropped up throughout the twentieth century, most of them located outside of the South. Written with Loewen's trademark honesty and thoroughness, Sundown Towns won the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Booklist, and launched a nationwide online effort to track down and catalog sundown towns across America. In a new preface, Loewen puts this history in the context of current controversies around white supremacy and the Black Lives Matter movement. He revisits sundown towns and finds the number way down, but with notable exceptions in exclusive all-white suburbs such as Kenilworth, Illinois, which as of 2010 had not a single black household. And, although many former sundown towns are now integrated, they often face "second-generation sundown town issues," such as in Ferguson, Missouri, a former sundown town that is now majority black, but with a majority-white police force.

Author : Jerome Pohlen
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613740352
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oddball Illinois written by Jerome Pohlen and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this updated edition, it's plain to see that the state of Illinois has only gotten weirder. Where there was once just a single Popeye statue in downstate Chester, today the town has monuments to Olive Oyl, Swee' Pea, Bluto, the Sea Hag, and more. The creepy Piasa Bird petroglyph on the bluff in Alton now has a roadside pullout with picnic tables, and the two-story outhouse in Gays has a new contemplative garden. With almost twice as many destinations as its predecessor, this edition boasts detailed information on each site—address, phone number, website, hours, entry fees, and driving directions—as well as maps, photos, and a wealth of regional history in the descriptions. Some new sites include Henry's Rabbit Ranch, the World's First Jungle Gym, Ahlgrim Acres (a miniature golf course at a funeral home), the Leather Archives and Museum, General Santa Ana's two wooden legs, the World's Largest Sock Monkey, the Friendship Shoe Fence, a truck stop with a marionette show, and a coin-operated fire-breathing dragon. There is more between Chicago and St. Louis than cornfields and plenty of fascinating places in the Windy City that aren't on Michigan Avenue, and here is a chance to see these underappreciated sites throughout the state.

Author : Michael Jeffords
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252096266
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring Nature in Illinois written by Michael Jeffords and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loaded with full color photographs and evocative descriptions, Exploring Nature in Illinois provides a panorama of the state's overlooked natural diversity. Naturalists Michael Jeffords and Susan Post explore fifty preserves, forests, restoration areas, and parks, bringing an expert view to wildlife and landscapes and looking beyond the obvious to uncover the unexpected beauty of Illinois's wild places. From the colorful variety of birds at War Bluff Valley Audubon Sanctuary to the exposed bedrock and cliff faces of Apple River Canyon, Exploring Nature in Illinois will inspire readers to explore wonders hidden from urban sprawl and cultivated farmland. Maps and descriptions help travelers access even hard-to-find sites while a wealth of detail and photography offers nature-lovers insights into the flora, fauna, and other aspects of vibrant settings and ecosystems. The authors also include diary entries describing their own impressions of and engagement with the sites. A unique and much-needed reference, Exploring Nature in Illinois will entertain and enlighten hikers, cyclers, students and scouts, morning walkers, weekend drivers, and anyone else seeking to get back to nature in the Prairie State.

Author : Weston Arthur Goodspeed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Cook County, Illinois-- written by Weston Arthur Goodspeed and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: