Arlington Heights, Illinois : a brief history
(2009)
By:
Souter, Gerry
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
Local History/Genealogy/977.31/SOUTER,G
977.31/SOUTER,G
977.31/SOUTER,G
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Charleston, SC : History Press, 2009
DESCRIPTION
154 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781596296749 (alk. paper), 1596296747 (alk. paper)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Wagon ruts over Pottawatomie trails -- Growing up by the tracks -- Education and worship come to Arlington Heights -- Fire, police and plumbing -- Arlington Heights marches off to war -- Prohibition-the beginning and end in 1919 -- Pulling together through the Great Depression -- Arlington Heights on the homefront -- Baby boom and building boom -- Downtown way down-1960s Arlington Heights -- Protection and prevention grow with the village -- Construction and destruction go hand in hand -- Arlington Heights reinvents itself -- No conclusion in sight