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Thank you for all of the questions, thank you so much to all of you for being here. [applause] and now more from the printers row lit fest in chicago. Thanks so much for joining us today. This session is entitled Neil Steinberg, every goddamn day t highly selective, definitely opinionated, and alternatingly humorous and heartbreaking Historical Tour of chicago. In conversation with sherman thomas. oh, yeah, lets give it up. [applause] neils book will be available for sale and sunk at the book sa...

With the help of our spectrum Cable Partners well explore the citys history and literary community, beginning with author pat oneill on the history of irish immigrants and how they helped build kansas city in what it is today. One of my Favorite Places in the whole cold is browns market run by john and john mcclain and cary brown. And they start the business in the late 1880s. Irish style. The oldest continual Retail Operation in west of the mississippi, maybe in the whole world. But browns is k...

Brother, johner pendergrast who came to kansas city in the 1880s and got started establishing this machine in the first ward of kansas city which was in the Industrial City by the river. There were many, there was an irish community, Africanamerican Community it was diverse. There were a lot of workingclass people. Andpendergast had saloons he went and built this machine that was based on favors that helped people get jobs in exchange for fouts, helping people through giving them loans that you ...

Viewers. The political machine boss of 1925 to 1939. Om the political machine got its start from toms older brother, jim pendergast, who came to kansas city in the 1880s and got started establishing this machine in the first ward of kansas city, which was in the industrial west bottoms down by the river. An irish committee, africanamerican community. Very diverse. Lots of workingclass people, saloon. Pendergast had a this machine that was based on favors, basically helping people get jobs in exc...

Graduated in and we had all of 1969. The things the other cities had the panthers, the civil rights movement, the sexual revolution, the drug culture, the antivietnam phase. Everything was here. All at one time. One thing i learned about kansas city at that point time was we tended to be softer on all of issues than others. Our riots were not as vast. We came together to put those out and we moved forward. We learned how to get along with each other although in my opinion, we still remain too se...

It is 480,000 people spread across those 318 square miles for a density of about 1,460 per mile, which is pretty sparse when you get right down to it. Were roughly, 29, 30 African American. About 11 latino, 5 various mixes of immigrants and various cultures there. The rest caucasian. Kansas city has variety of neighborhoods. It has an extremely sophisticated purpose and culture. Things that people might not expect. We have tremendous sports teams. We have great art. Its a place of variety and a ...

Across those 318 square miles for a density of about 1,460 per mile, which is pretty sparse when you get right down to it. Were roughly, 29, 30 African American. About 11 latino, 5 various mixes of immigrants and various cultures there. The rest caucasian. Kansas city has variety of neighborhoods. It has an extremely sophisticated purpose and culture. Things that people might not expect. We have tremendous sports teams. We have great art. Its a place of variety and a place of music and barbecue....

For a density of about 1,460 per mile, which is pretty sparse when you get right down to it. Were roughly, 29, 30 African American. About 11 latino, 5 various mixes of immigrants and various cultures there. The rest caucasian. Kansas city has variety of neighborhoods. It has an extremely sophisticated purpose and culture. Things that people might not expect. We have tremendous sports teams. We have great art. Its a place of variety and a place of music and barbecue. One thing i can tell you as a...

Of abraham lincoln, established the emancipation proclamation, and also the birthday of web 23ois, april 23 february in massachusetts. My wife was pregnant with our second child, and she went into labor february 22. So i said dear, if you have this child tonight, he will be born on toward washingtons birthday. If you hold out a couple of hours, you will have dubois baby. You can imagine what she would say to your husband 10 or 15 years down the road. She called me, but he was born on february 23...