Chicago: A Civic, Industrial, and Familial History - Paperback

by Andrew Taylor Call (Author)

This is a history of the civic, industrial, commercial, and familial aspects of the development of Chicago and Cook County, Illinois. Contained here is information about companies, churches, schools, hospitals, civic organizations, and many families who were builders of Chicago and the region. The book covers the timeline of Chicago from the Native American cultures and the beginning of the first permanent European settlements to the middle of the twentieth century.