{"id":4780,"date":"2013-10-16T18:20:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T23:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/?p=4780"},"modified":"2013-10-16T18:20:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T23:20:14","slug":"a-chicago-firehouse-stories-of-wrigleyvilles-engine-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/a-chicago-firehouse-stories-of-wrigleyvilles-engine-78\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chicago Firehouse: Stories of Wrigleyville&rsquo;s Engine 78"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"ChicagoFirehouse\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ChicagoFirehouse\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/julietarr.com\/genealogy\/blog\/images\/e4d150e19e70_FEED\/ChicagoFirehouse.jpg\" width=\"104\" height=\"146\">I just learned about the book, <em>A Chicago Firehouse: Stories of Wrigleyville\u2019s Engine 78<\/em>, written in 2001 by Karen Kruse.&nbsp; It sounds like an interesting read, so I\u2019ve added it to my \u201cTo Read\u201d list on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/user\/show\/8774517-julie\" target=\"_blank\">Goodreads<\/a> (I think I\u2019ll add it to my Amazon wish list too, perhaps a Christmas present?).&nbsp; It\u2019s available in paperback, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0738518573\/ref%3Dnosim\/searchbyisbn\/103-1826093-9908659\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/a-chicago-firehouse-karen-kruse\/1112767019?ean=9780738518572&amp;itm=1&amp;usri=9780738518572\" target=\"_blank\">Nook<\/a> editions.&nbsp; You can even get a signed copy through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.achicagofirehouse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">author\u2019s website<\/a>.&nbsp; Another neat thing about the book, the foreword is written by former Chicago Bears coach, Mike Ditka.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a brief description of the book from the author\u2019s website: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>From its humble beginnings in 1884 as a one-story frame building with one bay to house Hose Company 4 and its team of horses, Engine Company 78 has been the firefighting sentinel at the end of Waveland Avenue, sitting in the shadow of Wrigley Field. Using vintage photographs and moving stories from firefighters themselves, Karen Kruse captures the spirit and heroism of this historic Chicago landmark. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just learned about the book, A Chicago Firehouse: Stories of Wrigleyville\u2019s Engine 78, written in 2001 by Karen Kruse.&nbsp; It sounds like an interesting read, so I\u2019ve added it to my \u201cTo Read\u201d list on Goodreads (I think I\u2019ll add it to my Amazon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,300],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genblog","category-resources-genblog","cat-25-id","cat-300-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-1f6","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4781,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4780\/revisions\/4781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}