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Graceland Cemetery - Chicago Stories, Symbols, and Secrets (Paperback)
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Graceland Cemetery - Chicago Stories, Symbols, and Secrets (Paperback)
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Loot Price R487
Discovery Miles 4 870
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One of Chicago's landmark attractions, Graceland Cemetery
chronicles the city's sprawling history through the stories of its
people. Local historian and Graceland tour guide Adam Selzer
presents ten walking tours covering almost the entirety of the
cemetery grounds. While nodding to famous Graceland figures from
Marshall Field to Ernie Banks to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Selzer
also leads readers past the vaults, obelisks, and other markers
that call attention to less recognized Chicagoans like: Jessie
Williams de Priest, the Black wife of a congressman whose 1929
invitation to a White House tea party set off a storm of
controversy; Engineer and architect Fazlur Khan, the Bangladeshi
American who revived the city's skyscraper culture; The
still-mysterious Kate Warn (listed as Warn on her tombstone), the
United States' first female private detective. Filled with
photographs and including detailed maps of each tour route,
Graceland Cemetery is an insider's guide to one of Chicago's great
outdoor destinations for city lore and history.
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