Dominic A. Pacyga

Autor von Chicago: A Biography

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Dominic A. Pacyga is professor emeritus of history in the Department of Humanities, History, and Social Sciences at Columbia College Chicago. His books include Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago: Workers on the South Side, 1881-1922; Chicago: A Biography; and Slaughterhouse: Chicago's Union mehr anzeigen Stock Yard and the World It Made; all from the University of Chicago Press. Pacyga is the 2014 Mieczyslaw Haiman Award winner for exceptional and sustained contribution to the study of Polish Americans. weniger anzeigen

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Chicago: A Biography (2009) 114 Exemplare

Chicago City of Neighborhoods: Histories and Tours (1986) 45 Exemplare

Slaughterhouse: Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the World It Made (2015) 45 Exemplare

The Chicago Bungalow (Illinois) (2001) 36 Exemplare

Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago: Workers on the South Side, 1880-1922 (1991) 21 Exemplare

American Warsaw: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Polish Chicago (2019) 8 Exemplare

Chicago's Southeast Side (1998) 7 Exemplare

American Warsaw: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of Polish Chicago (2021) 1 Exemplar

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Chicago Bungalow, The von Chicago Architecture Foundation

Growing up in Chicago, I was familiar with the thousands of brick bungalows that lined the streets of my hometown, Oak Park, Illinois, as ell as the other near-by Chicago suburbs. But I had no idea that they were a distinctive vernacular architectural style of the cit.

Mostly built between the end of the first world war and the beginning of the Depression in the 1930's, they transformed the open prairies surrounding the city into neat, mostly working class neighborhoods and provided an economical means for Chicago's working class to become homeowners.

They have stood the test of time and are still great, well-built homes today for Chicago's middle class.… (mehr)