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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Bridgeport

Bridgeport

Bloom, Joanne Gazarek
Pogorzelski, Daniel
Sullivan, Maureen

Paperback

Series: Images of America

General PhotographyRegional: Midwest

Publisher Price: $24.99

ISBN10: 0738577308
ISBN13: 9780738577302
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Published: Aug 13 2012
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Explore Bridgeport, the most political neighborhood in the most political of cities - home to five Chicago mayors and parades of politicians honoring its power at national conventions.


Once a Native American village traversed by Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet, as Chicago grew the area was called Hardscrabble, then Cabbage Gardens, and finally Bridgeport. Immigrants built it: the Irish dredged a canal and mined a quarry that led to slaughterhouses, cooperages, rolling mills, and breweries that were worked by Germans, Bohemians, Swedes, and Poles. Held dear as the Heart of Lithuania, muckrakers described parts of it as a heartbreaking jungle. More immigrants came: Italians, Croatians, Mexicans, Chinese. Against the backdrop of prairies, labor strife, gangways, and Joe Podsajdwokiem, this sometimes uneasy mix lived, worked, and voted together. Bridgeport still has streets that defy the city's orderly grid, settlement houses, language stews, and, for each nationality, churches and taverns. Today, it may welcome artists and expensive housing, but on summer nights stoop sitting and rooting for the White Sox remain social obligations.

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