The Financial Policies, Practices, and Health of Suburban Municipalities
A comprehensive analysis of the financial condition, management, and policy making of local governments in a metropolitan region that offers local governments currently dealing with the Great Recession a better understanding of what affects them financially and how to operate with less revenue.
Krannert Art Museum: Selected Works is the creation of a wonderfully diverse group: graduate students of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois faculty from multiple disciplines; curators, educators, and volunteer docents from Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion; and specialists from other museums and universities. Their ......
Beginning with a general overview of crime in the Illinois state, this book focuses on such cases as the 'Murder Castle' of H H Holmes, the intellectual thrill killers Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, as well as the bloody St Valentine's Day Massacre involving Al Capone's South Side mob and Bugs Moran's North Side gang.
Controlling Crime, Maintaining Order, and Building Community Activism
With the close proximity of gangs and the easy access to drugs, keeping urban neighborhoods safe from crime has long been a central concern for residents. This book draws on five years of research in a white, working-class community on Chicago's South side to see how they tried to keep their streets safe.
Controlling Crime, Maintaining Order, and Building Community Activism
With the close proximity of gangs and the easy access to drugs, keeping urban neighborhoods safe from crime has long been a central concern for residents. This book draws on five years of research in a white, working-class community on Chicago's South side to see how they tried to keep their streets safe.
On the afternoon of December 30, 1903, during a sold-out matinee performance, a fire broke out in Chicago's Iroquois Theatre. In the short span of twenty minutes, more than six hundred people, two thirds of whom were women and children, were asphyxiated, burned, or trampled to death in a panicked mob's failed attempt to escape. A century after the ......
132 Family - Friendly and Accessible Nature Sites in Illinois
Following the success of their previous collaborations, Illinois Hiking and Backpacking Trails, Revised Edition and A Guide to Mountain Bike Trails in Illinois, Walter and George Zyznieuski offer this concise resource for all outdoor enthusiasts interested in the outstanding nature centers and interpretive trails throughout Illinois. The 135 sites ......
A case study of two brothers, Julius and Wilhelm Wagner, who immigrated to the United States from Baden, Germany. Julius immigrated as part of an early communist group, the "Darmstaedters" or "Forty," who established the utopian settlement of Bettina in 1847. His anti-slavery beliefs forced Julius to Mexico during the Civil War, but he returned to ......
First published in 1946, Warren Brown's history of the Cubs, like Frederick G. Lieb's history of the St. Louis Cardinals, was commissioned by G. P. Putnam's Sons. Brown begins with the founding of the National League - with the Cubs as a charter member - in 1876 and continues through the 1945 World Series, which the Cubs lost to the Detroit ......
