Fabulous Chicago

Here is the best-selling history of an American city like no other -- and of the vibrant people who built it.The Yankees who came west to gamble fortunes on the Board of Trade, the Swifts and Amours, Fields and McCormicks, and the new immigrants who worked in their stockyards, stores and railroads -- together and at odds they built Chicago out of the prairie mud, and built it again when the Great ...