Fabulous Chicago Quotes

“For thirty years from 1880 to 1910, the Chicago school of architects essentially designed the engineering and structural systems that have made possible the multistory buildings of today.”
― Emmett Dedmon, Fabulous Chicago: A Great City's History and People

“A radical, who stood on top of an abandoned piano to declare that the fire was the friend of the poor and urge the crowd to help itself to what it wanted, was suddenly quieted by a well-aimed whiskey bottle.”
― Emmett Dedmon, Fabulous Chicago: A Great City's History and People