Chicago Ragtime: Another Look at Chicago, 1880-1920

by Richard Lindberg

Pages are clean and binding is tight. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896511030
• ISBN13: 9780896511033
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Icarus Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

What started it all for me.

Many people have asked me what started myalcaponemuseum and my interest in gangland Chicago. My answer mostly consists of the performance by Robert DeNiro in The Untouchables. If there's one book that started my interest before DeNiro, then this one is most definitely it! I got it two years before DeNiro's performance and was quickly wrapped up in Mr. Lindberg's storytelling of old Chicago. The book is set right before Al Capone set foot in Chi-town. So many interesting non Capone stories in here. I highly recommend it to all the Chicago buffs out there. It helps understand how Capone would come to be and what was going on before in old Chicago. We get a great glimpse of how Chicago was named, events after the great fire, it's players, movers, shakers and the Great Mike McDonald etc... Just a great book with terrific illustrations! Lindberg makes the readers use their imagination, and it works! Can't find it new? Get it used. Mario Gomes Founder of myalcaponemuseum