On This Day in Chicago History

by John R. Schmidt

Join John R. Schmidt on a day-by-day look at some of Chicago's most fascinating lesser-known events.
Think you know Chicago? If you are thinking of Al Capone, the L, the Cubs, Barack Obama or the Great Fire of 1871, then you are remembering the highlights from the tour bus. Here's the rest of the story, day by day. Chicago opened the first blood bank, invented the vacuum cleaner and sent a bowling ball around the world. One high school football game drew 120,000 people. Chicagoans fought nineteen years over the name of a street. For fifty years, they saved a gallows for an escaped killer. And those are just some of the stories...

384 pages, Paperback

First published January 20, 2014

About the author

John R. Schmidt is the author of The Unraveling. He teaches at the Elliott School for International Affairs at George Washington University. He served in the State Department during a thirty-year service career, including as Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad in the years leading up to 9/11.

http://us.macmillan.com/author/johnrs...

Reviews

[Dorothy Hynous · Rating 3 out of 5]

interesting facts

[Dale · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun little fact book