Title Sensing Chicago : noisemakers, strikebreakers, and muckrakers / Adam Mack

Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource Series Studies in sensory history Studies in sensory history. Contents Smelling civic peril: the Chicago Styx -- Sensory overload: the Chicago Fire, 1871 -- To quiet the roar of the mob: George M. Pullman's model town -- A revolutionary and a puritan: Upton Sinclair and The jungle -- Sensory refreshment: the other white city Summary A hundred years and more ago, a walk down a Chicago street invited an assault on the senses. Untiring hawkers shouted from every corner. The manure from thousands of horses lay on streets pooled with molasses and puddled with kitchen grease. Odors from a river gelatinous and lumpy with all manner of foulness mingled with the all-pervading stench of the stockyard slaughterhouses. In this book, Adam Mack lets fresh air into the sensory history of Chicago in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by examining five events: the Chicago River, the Great Fire, the 1894 Pullman Strike, the publication of Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle', and the rise and fall of the White City amusement park Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Senses and sensation -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century Senses and sensation -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) HISTORY -- Social History. Senses and sensation Social conditions SUBJECT Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 20th century Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century Subject Illinois -- Chicago Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780252097225 025209722X

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