Curating Chicago: City Notebook for Chicago , USA


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This quirky city notebook is designed to inspire listmakers to create and curate their own city guide and city biography in list form. It's a do it (all) yourself notebook for independent travelers and thinkers! "YOU ARE AS COOL AS YOUR CITY. Naturally. So, why not curate your city and capture the essence of that coolness? This is a city guide re-imagined for travelers, urban explorers and city locals alike!" — Cormac Younghusband Curating Chicago: City Notebook For Chicago, USA is a do-it-yourself city guide that helps you keep all your important city information organized and ready for when you need it and where you need it. Use the pages of this city notebook to document your adventures, experiences, thoughts, and memories. Have fun making lists of all the highlights and lowlights the city has to offer. Inside you will find D.I.Y. sections like: Getting Started, City Confidential, City Calendar, City Folks, City Adventure, Places to Stay, See & Explore, Eat Drink & Be Merry, Shopping, Sport, Health & Fitness, Entertaining Outings, City Escapes & Excursions, One Day Must Not Miss, Blacklist Must Miss, Curator Special Lists, Local Language & Dialect, Rating & Embetterment, and Notes, Sketches, Maps. This is the perfect place to capture and curate everything you find fascinating about Chicago-which is why it's your city guide in lists. Make your time more fun, more organized, more productive and more creative with a D.I.Y. City Guide from Younghusband City Notebooks. "Aldous Huxley said 'For every traveler who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.'" To help with that, I created a line of D.I.Y City Guides In Lists to help you curate your city and to curate your world. Enjoy!" — Cormac Younghusband CITIES IN THE YOUNGHUSBAND CITY NOTEBOOK COLLECTION: Adelaide, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Asuncion, Athens, Atlanta, Auckland, Bangalore, Bangkok, Barcelona, Basel, Beijing, Beirut, Belo Horizonte, Berlin, Bilbao, Bogotá, Boston, Brasilia, Brisbane, Brussels, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Busan, Cairo, Calgary, Canberra, Cape Town, Caracas, Casablanca, Chang Mai, Chennai, Chicago, Christchurch, Cologne, Colombo, Copenhagen, Dallas, Delhi, Denver, Dhaka, Dubai, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Edinburgh, Florence, Frankfurt, Geneva, Genoa, Glasgow, Goa, Guangzhou, Hamburg, Hanoi, Havana, Helsinki, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Honolulu, Houston, Hyderabad, Istanbul, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Kathmandu, Kinshasa, Kobe, Kolkata, Kuala Lampur, Kyoto, Lagos, Las Vegas, Lhasa, Lima, Lisbon, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, Luxembourg, Lyon, Maastricht, Macau, Madrid, Manchester, Manila, Marrakesh, Marseille, Melbourne, Merida, Mexico City, Miami, Milan, Monaco, Montevideo, Montreal, Moscow, Mumbai, Munich, Nagoya, Nairobi, Naples, New Orleans, New York, Nice, Nuremberg, Osaka, Ottawa, Palermo, Palma, Paris, Perth, Philadelphia, Porto, Prague, Pune, Reykjavik, Riga, Rio de Janeiro, Rome, Rotterdam, Ruhr Valley, Salzburg, San Francisco, Santiago, São Paulo, Sapporo, Seattle, Seoul, Seville, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Singapore, Sochi, St Petersburg, Stockholm, Strasbourg, Stuttgart, Sydney, Taipei, Tel Aviv, Tianjin, Tokyo, Toronto, Turin, Valencia, Vancouver, Venice, Victoria, Vienna, Vientiane, Vladivostok, Warsaw, Washington D.C., Wellington, Yangon, Yokohama, Zurich "Find a place in the world you haven't been, and go there. Keep on trucking, my friends" - Cormac Younghusband, The World's Most Legendary Nomad




Sun Ra's Chicago


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“Sites provides crucial context on how Chicago’s Afrocentrist philosophy, religion, and jazz scenes helped turn Blount into Sun Ra.” —Chicago Reader Sun Ra (1914–93) was one of the most wildly prolific and unfailingly eccentric figures in the history of music. Renowned for extravagant performances in which his Arkestra appeared in neo-Egyptian garb, the keyboardist and bandleader also espoused an interstellar cosmology that claimed the planet Saturn as his true home. In Sun Ra’s Chicago, William Sites brings this visionary musician back to earth—specifically to the city’s South Side, where from 1946 to 1961 he lived and relaunched his career. The postwar South Side was a hotbed of unorthodox religious and cultural activism: Afrocentric philosophies flourished, storefront prophets sold “dream-book bibles,” and Elijah Muhammad was building the Nation of Islam. It was also an unruly musical crossroads where the man then known as Sonny Blount drew from an array of intellectual and musical sources—from radical nationalism, revisionist Christianity, and science fiction to jazz, blues, Latin dance music, and pop exotica—to construct a philosophy and performance style that imagined a new identity and future for African Americans. Sun Ra’s Chicago shows that late twentieth-century Afrofuturism emerged from a deep, utopian engagement with the city—and that by excavating the postwar black experience of Sun Ra’s South Side milieu, we can come to see the possibilities of urban life in new ways. “Four stars . . . Sites makes the engaging argument that the idiosyncratic jazz legend’s penchant for interplanetary journeys and African American utopia was in fact inspired by urban life right on Earth.” —Spectrum Culture







Chicago Heights


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The history of Chicago Heights mirrors the growth and struggles of the entire nation. From determined settlers to visionary industrialists, from the power of rail to the vast intercontinental highway system, this Illinois city of hard workers and dynamic ethnic groups persevered through overwhelming obstacles to claim its place at the center of the Industrial Revolution.




Modern American Environmentalists


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Modern American Environmentalists profiles the lives and contributions of nearly 140 major figures during the twentieth-century environmental movement. Included are iconic environmentalists such as Rachel Carson, E. O. Wilson, Gifford Pinchot, and Al Gore, and important but less expected names, including John Steinbeck and Allen Ginsberg. The entries recount how each individual became active in environmental conservation, detail his or her significant contributions, trace the influence of each on future efforts, and discuss the person's legacy. The individuals selected for the book displayed either an unparalleled commitment to the conservation, preservation, restoration, and enhancement of the natural environment or made a major contribution to the growth of environmentalism during its first century. With a foreword by environmental historian Everett I. Mendolsohn, a time line of key environmental events, a bibliography of groundbreaking works, and an index organized by specialization, this biographical encyclopedia is a handy and complete guide to the major people involved in the modern American environmental movement.




Chinese in Chicago, 1870-1945


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The first wave of Chinese immigrants came to Chicagoland in the 1870s, after the transcontinental railway connected the Pacific Coast to Chicago. In 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act prevented working-class Chinese from entering the U.S., except men who could prove they were American citizens. For more than 60 years, many Chinese immigrants had acquired documents helping to prove that they were born in America or had a parent who was a citizen. The men who bore these false identities were called "paper sons." A second wave of Chinese immigrants arrived after the repeal of the Act in 1943, seeking economic opportunity and to be reunited with their families.




Catalog of Copyright Entries


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The Blue Book


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Trope Chicago


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Trope Chicago is a highly curated collection of photographic images from an active community of urban photographers who have passionately captured their city like never before.




Chicago Tribune Index


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