Abandoned Illinois: Forgotten Places and Lost Histories

Author(s): Lisa Beard

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Series: Abandoned Union
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781634991803
Related Topics: Abandoned Union, Illinois, Midwest, West, Latest

DESCRIPTION

What causes people to leave their lives behind? How is it that places, some of great historical significance, are left unnoticed, even when in plain sight? What does that say about who we are as people and what we will become? It’s easy to overlook these spaces and the people who once occupied them.

Abandoned Illinois: Forgotten Places and Lost Histories is a visual chronicling of these places, from homes filled with left-behind belongings to a steel mill that was responsible for forging more aviation parts for the U.S. government than any other during WWII, to an ornately designed church whose parish lasted over 100 years before becoming obsolete, to a mental health center that was shuttered so abruptly that almost everything was left behind.

Strangely beautiful and stubbornly defying neglect and the passage of time, these once well-known places are either gone or will be soon.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)

Lisa Beard is a fine art photographer who also enjoys writing and creating mixed media art. She was born and continues to live in Woodstock, IL, a suburb of Chicago, where she is also a high school teacher and LRC director. Throughout life, Lisa has been drawn to exploration, especially the history behind abandoned spaces, and to photographing and documenting it. Abandoned Illinois: Secrets Behind the Spaces is her first published book. Volume II and Abandoned Wisconsin will soon follow. For more on Lisa and her work, please visit www.lisambeard.com.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781634991803
FORMAT: Paperback
PUBLISHER: America Through Time
DATE: 12/16/2019
STATE: Illinois
IMAGES: 169
PAGES: 96
DIMENSIONS: 6.5 (w) x 9.25 (h)

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