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Studs Terkel's Chicago by Studs Terkel Synopsis In the tradition of E. B. Whites bestselling Here Is New York, Chicago is a tribute to the “Second City”—part history, part memoir, and 100% Studs Terkel—infused with anecdotes, memories, and reflections that celebrate the great city.... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Hardcover 
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Nature's Metropolis : Chicago and the Great West (91 Edition) by William Cronon Publisher Comments In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago America's most dynamic city and the Great West its... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul by Karen Abbott Staff Pick Take one bordello. Muddle it with a bit of turn-of-the-century Chicago. Add a few characters to the mix, including the Everleigh sisters, John Barrymore, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., William Howard Taft, and Al Capone, and you serve up quite a cocktail... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why It Often Sucks in The City, or Who Are These Idiots and Why Do by Jen Lancaster Publisher Comments Jen Lancaster hates to burst your happy little bubble, but life in the big city isn't all it's cracked up to be. Contrary to what you see on TV and in the movies, most urbanites aren't party-hopping in slinky dresses and strappy stilettos. But lucky for... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Chief O'Neill's Sketchy Recollections of an Eventful Life in Chicago by Francis Oneill Publisher Comments This remarkable memoir of immigration and assimilation provides a rare view of urban life in Chicago in the late 1800s by a newcomer to the city and the Midwest, and the nation as well. Francis ONeill left Ireland in 1865. After five years traveling the... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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City of the Century (96 Edition) by Donald L. Miller Publisher Comments The epic of Chicago is the story of the emergence of modern America. 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. Donald Miller's powerful narrative embraces it... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Chicago in Focus: Portrait of a City Through the Eyes of Its People by Dream Town Publisher Comments Showing Chicago through the eyes of its people, the photographs in this book go beyond the major tourist destinations and exhibit a multifaceted celebration of what life is like in Chicago. Collected from public involvement in a photo competition, the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Strange But True: Chicago: Tales of the Windy City (Insiders' Guide) by Thomas J Ogorman Publisher Comments This compulsively readable guide looks deep into the heart of the windy city uncovering the stories behind startling headlines quirky laws and obscure police logs From classic "strange but true" tales that made the national news to little-known but... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Woman of Uncertain Character: The Amorous, Radical, and Unscrupulous Adventures of My Mother Jennie (Who in Her Heart of Hearts Wanted to Be a Respe by Clancy Sigal Publisher Comments This memoir is about Clancy Sigal's intense attachment to his fast-talking, redhaired, sexy, unwed mother Jennie, a firebrand union organizer, and his roaring Oedipal rivalry with his mostly absent father Leo who carries a gun to social occasions. In the... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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People Wasn't Made to Burn: A True Story of Race, Murder, and Justice in Chicago by Joe Allen Publisher Comments In 1947, James Hickman shot and killed the landlord he believed was responsible for a tragic fire that took the lives of four of his children on Chicagos West Side. But a vibrant defense campaign, exposing the working poverty and racism that led to his... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Hardcover
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Chicago's Nelson Algren by Nelson Shay Publisher Comments They met in 1949 when Art was a reporter for Life. Shay followed Algren around with a camera, gathering pictures for a photo-essay piece he was pitching to the magazine. Life didnt pick up the article, but Shay and Algren became fast friends. Algren gave... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties by Michael Lesy Publisher Comments Lesy's portrait of a gruesome era could be fiction--but it's not. Providing a glimpse into the dark side of the Jazz Age, Lesy's sharp, fearless storytelling makes a compelling case that this collection of criminals may be the progenitors of our modern... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $7.97 Sale - Hardcover
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Hutchins' University: A Memoir of the University of Chicago, 1929-1950 by William H Mcneill Publisher Comments The inauguration of Robert Maynard Hutchins as the fifth President of the University of Chicago in 1929 coincided with a drastically changed social and economic climate throughout the world. And Hutchins himself opened an era of tumultuous reform and... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
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Chicago Stories : Tales of the City (93 Edition) by John (ed.) Miller Publisher Comments Hometown and host to talents as diverse as Richard Wright, David Mamet, Maya Angelou, Saul Bellow, and Mike Royko, Chicago boasts a rich tradition of writers who have helped shape our sense of the city even as the city informs their best work. It's "a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Chicago Lawn & Marquette Manor, Illinois (Images of America) by Kathleen J Headley Publisher Comments The Marquette Park area on the southwest side of Chicago is comprised of two neighborhoods- Chicago Lawn and Marquette Manor. This book depicts the evolution of both neighborhoods with photographs and images of the earliest developments, buildings, and... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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This Day in Illinois History (This Day in History) by Jeff Ruetsche Synopsis This Day in Illinois History is a day-by-day survey of the people and events that shaped the state. The browsable format encourages readers to flip to any day to find fun facts and anecdotes: October 14, 1906 — The White Sox defeated the Cubs in the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Damndest Radical: The Life and World of Ben Reitman, Chicago's Celebrated Social Reformer, Hobo King, and Whorehouse Physician by Roger A Bruns Synopsis Roger A. Bruns's immensely entertaining biography, now available in paperback, throws a spotlight on a colorful, influential, but long-obscured Chicago character. This is the true story of Ben Reitman, ally of hobos, personal physician to scores of Al... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Chicago by Santi Visalli Publisher Comments This handy format showcases Chicagos greatest sites and views, including four gatefolds of breathtaking panoramic beauty that capture the visual paradoxes and triumphs of this famous city by the lake. Visalli photographs the architectural masterpieces... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Feininger S Chicago, 1941 by Andreas Feininger Publisher Comments El trains, South Side slums, Lake Shore Drive, stockyards. 60 pictures from 1941, 5 from 1948.... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago (Crown Journeys) by Alex Kotlowitz Publisher Comments For Kotlowitz, Chicago is the perfect perch from which to peer into America's heart. This is not so much a tour of a place as a tour of its people, a chronicle of its soul and lifeblood.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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