The Epic of Chicago is the story of the emergence of modern America.
Donald Miller\'s powerful narrative embraces it all: Chicago\'s wild beginnings, its reckless growth, its natural calamities (especially the Great Fire of 1871), its raucous politics, its empire-building businessmen, its world-transforming architecture, its rich mix of cultures, its communi.
Here, witness Chicago\'s growth from a desolate fur-trading post in the 1830s to one of the world\'s most explosively alive cities by 1900.
The Epic of Chicago is the story of the emergence of modern America