Illinois
Illinois

Author: Lois Carrier

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1998-01-15

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9780252068089

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With a major port on the Great Lakes, an extensive network of railroads and canals, and a river system including the Mississippi, the Illinois, and the Ohio, Illinois has long played a critical role in linking East Coast industrial cities, the agricultural heartland, and the Gulf Coast. Writing in a fast-paced, down-to-earth style, Lois Carrier introduces a host of innovations and innovators associated with Illinois: Jane Addams and Louis Armstrong, Frank Lloyd Wright and Walt Disney, Cracker Jack and the Ferris wheel. From the Cahokia Mounds to Chicago, Illinois: Crossroads of a Continent provides a panoramic history for students and general readers.

The Lincoln Highway Around Chicago
The Lincoln Highway Around Chicago

Author: Cynthia L. Ogorek

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738551975

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Once known as the "Main Street of America," The Lincoln Highway through western Indiana and eastern Illinois became the first urban bypass on the first hard-surfaced transcontinental highway in the nation. Some 200 vintage photographs visit sites that early-day tourists saw, and documents the people who made the highway what is was.