Lost German Chicago

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Lost German Chicago

Author: Joseph C. Heinen, Susan Barton Heinen
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 128
Cover Price: $ 21.99

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By 1900, one in four Chicagoans was either German born or had a German-born parent. No other ethnic group's thumbprint has been larger in helping establish Chicago as a major economic and cultural center nor has any group's influence been more erased by the passage and vicissitudes of time. Lost German Chicago traces the mosaic of German life through the tumultuous events of the Beer Riots, Haymarket Affair, Prohibition, and America's entry into two world wars.

The book is a companion piece to the Lost German Chicago exhibition debuting in the newly created DANK-Haus German American Cultural Center museum, located in what is still known today as the German town of the north side of Chicago. Entrusted as the caretaker of many archives, artifacts, and historical documents from many now defunct German organizations, the DANK-Haus German American Cultural Center has been committed to preserving history, traditions, and contributions of Germans and German Americans for over 50 years.

Background Information

Chicago, Illinois, is the largest city on the Great Lakes. The Haymarket Square Riot was a confrontation in Chicago that followed a peaceful labor demonstration in 1886 during which several people died. Prohibition was the social experiment in the abolition of the human consumption of intoxicating alcohol between 1919 and 1933.