{"product_id":"chicago-eternal-9781893121744","title":"Chicago Eternal","description":"\u003cp\u003eLives matter say our cemeteries  columbaria  Viking burial ships  prehistoric gravesites  royal desert tombs  and potters fields. Only in times of the most extreme human brutality are the dead untended. Cemeteries tell the story of both individual lives and our collective journey. They are endlessly fascinating because life is endlessly fascinating.  The cemeteries of Chicago preserve the stories of those who built the brawny city by the lake. In the location and population of cemeteries we can trace their arrival in waves of immigration from all over the world. In monuments to soldiers  we follow the wars they fought at home and abroad. Standing beside individual graves  we consider the industries they developed  the art they made  the noisy lives of societys criminals  the quiet lives of domestic affection.  Disasters are marked here: train wrecks and sinking ships and cholera epidemics. And triumphs: the forming of great universities and museums; art  architecture  urban planning  and philanthropy; advances in medicine  science  industry  and sport. We read compelling stories of such Chicagoans as Emmett Till  Bobby Franks  Jack Ruby  Mary Hastings Bradley  and Mike Todd  husband to Elizabeth Taylor. And  as with cultural fashions and preferences  the arrival and passing of styles and what they meant  we see the changing ways of thinking about life and death.  Larry Broutman has been researching Chicagos cemeteries and recording them with his beautiful photography for the past five years. In the pages of Chicago Eternal  he takes readers on a spectacular tour of deaths domain  which is  in another sense  a celebration of the fullness and flourishing of life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67932162981941,"sku":"ByrdShop_1893121747","price":495.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781893121744.jpg?v=1794220068","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/chicago-eternal-9781893121744","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}