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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 They All Live Next Door to Me? by Jen Lancaster
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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 ... More
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Sin in the Second City : Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul by Karen Abbott
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Karen Abbotta (TM) s colorful, nuanced portrait of the iconic Everleigh sisters; their world-famous brothel, the Everleigh Club; and the perennial clash between our nation's ... More
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Our America : Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago by Lealan Jones, David Isay, Lloyd Newman, John Brooks (Photographer)
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Through two award-winning National Public Radio documentaries, and now thispowerful book, LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman have made it their mission to be loud voices from one ... More
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Hoop Dreams : A True Story of Hardship and Triumph by Ben Joravsky, Harper Collins Harperperennial, Charles Barkley (Introduction)
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For nearly five years Arthur Agee s and William Gates remarkable lives were chronicled by a team of filmmakers. Roughly 250 hours of film were devoted to their journeys from ... More
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Christmas on State Street, Illinois : 1940s and Beyond (Images of America Series) by Robert Ledermann, R. Ledermann
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State Street, that Great Street. The name itself stands the test of time, remembered by anyone who lived in or visited Chicago. It is the main artery of the heart of the city. ... More
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Heat Wave : A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago by Eric Klinenberg
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On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually ... More
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Slumming : Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940 by Chad Heap
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During Prohibition, Harlem was the in place to go for music and booze, recalled the African American chanteuse Bricktop. Every night the limousines pulled up to the corner, ... More
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Chicago's Polish Downtown, Illinois (Images of America Series) by Victoria Granacki, The Polish Museum of America (With)
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Polish Downtown is Chicago's oldest Polish settlement and was the capital of American Polonia from the 1870s through the first half of the 20th century. Nearly all Polish ... More
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Death in the Haymarket : A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America by James Green
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On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a ... More
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One More Time : The Best of Mike Royko by Mike Royko, Lois Wille (Commentaries by) , Studs Terkel (Foreword by)
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With the incisive pen of a newspaperman and the compassionate soul of a poet, Mike Royko was a Chicago institution who became, in Jimmy Breslin's words, "the best journalist ... More
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