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Chicago



link to catalog page MICHAEL, The Architecture of Barry Byrne

The Architecture of Barry Byrne

Taking the Prairie School to Europe

Author: Vincent Michael
Pub Date: June 2013

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's earliest apprentices, a visionary of modern Catholic church buildings   learn more...

link to catalog page LESLIE, Chicago Skyscrapers, 1871-1934 Author: Thomas Leslie
Pub Date: July 2013

A detailed tour, inside and out, of Chicago's distinctive towers from an earlier age   learn more...

link to catalog page TORRES, Citizens in the Present

Citizens in the Present

Youth Civic Engagement in the Americas

Author: Maria de los Angeles Torres, Irene Rizzini, and Norma Del Río
Pub Date: July 2013

A transnational study of active and engaged urban youth   learn more...

link to catalog page DOLINAR, The Negro in Illinois

The Negro in Illinois

The WPA Papers

Author: Edited by Brian Dolinar
Pub Date: July 2013

An extraordinary document of the African American experience   learn more...

link to catalog page LICHTMAN, Organized Crime in Chicago

Organized Crime in Chicago

Beyond the Mafia

Author: Robert M. Lombardo
Pub Date: January 2013

Explaining Chicago's mix of crime, corruption, and politics   learn more...

link to catalog page TRACY, Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance Author: Edited by Steven C. Tracy
Pub Date: Cloth: 2011; Paper: December 2013

An expansive introduction to Chicago's great cultural explosion   learn more...

link to catalog page GANZ, The 1933 Chicago World's Fair

The 1933 Chicago World's Fair

A Century of Progress

Author: Cheryl R. Ganz
Pub Date: Cloth: 2008; Paper: February 2012

From fan dancers to fan belts--the compelling, untold stories of Chicago's 1933 world fair   learn more...

link to catalog page ROBERTS, Before the Curse

Before the Curse

The Chicago Cubs' Glory Years, 1870-1945

Author: Edited by Randy Roberts and Carson Cunningham
Pub Date: January 2012

The early days and glory days of the Chicago Cubs   learn more...

link to catalog page HINE, The Black Chicago Renaissance Author: Edited by Darlene Clark Hine and John McCluskey Jr.
Pub Date: July 2012

Presenting early twentieth-century Chicago as a vital centerpiece of Black thought and expression   learn more...

link to catalog page JENTZ, Chicago in the Age of Capital

Chicago in the Age of Capital

Class, Politics, and Democracy during the Civil War and Reconstruction

Author: John B. Jentz and Richard Schneirov
Pub Date: April 2012

Building a city on a shifting, clashing political economy   learn more...

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