Midwest Regional
- , John Raeburn: Ben Shahn's American Scene: Photographs, 1938
- ADDAMS, Jane : A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil
- ADDAMS, Jane : My Friend, Julia Lathrop
- ADDAMS, Jane : Peace and Bread in Time of War
- ADDAMS, Jane : The Long Road of Woman's Memory
- ADDAMS, Edited by Mary Lynn McCree Bryan, Barbara Bair, and Maree de Angury: The Selected Papers of Jane Addams: vol. 1: Preparing to Lead, 1860-81
- ADDAMS, Jane : The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets
- ADDAMS, Jane : Twenty Years at Hull-House
- ADDAMS, Jane, Emily G. Balch, and Alice Hamilton: Women at The Hague: The International Congress of Women and Its Results
- ADE, George : Stories of Chicago
- ANDERSON, Edited by Margo and Victor Greene: Perspectives on Milwaukee's Past
- ANDERSON, Sherwood : Windy McPherson's Son
- ANGLE, Paul M. : Bloody Williamson: A Chapter in American Lawlessness
- ARDIZZONE, Tony : Taking It Home: Stories from the Neighborhood
- ARREDONDO, Gabriela F. : Mexican Chicago: Race, Identity, and Nation, 1916-39
- BLACK HAWK, Black Hawk: Black Hawk: An Autobiography
- BOLOTIN, Norman and Christine Laing: The World's Columbian Exposition: The Chicago World's Fair of 1893
- BOWEN, Louise de Koven : Growing Up with a City
- BRUNS, Roger A. : Preacher: Billy Sunday and Big-Time American Evangelism
- BUKOWSKI, Douglas : Big Bill Thompson, Chicago, and the Politics of Image
- BURDETTE, Robert J. : The Drums of the 47th
- BURLINGAME, Michael : The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln
- CARRIER, Lois A. : Illinois: Crossroads of a Continent
- CARROLL, John M. : Red Grange and the Rise of Modern Football
- CHA-JUA, Sundiata Keita : America's First Black Town: Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830-1915
- CIALDELLA, Photographs by Gary : The Calumet Region: An American Place
- CUMMING, Carman : Devil's Game: The Civil War Intrigues of Charles A. Dunham
- CURRENT, Richard Nelson : Wisconsin: A History
- CUTLER, Irving : The Jews of Chicago: From Shtetl to Suburb
- DAVIS, Frank Marshall : Black Moods: Collected Poems
- DE SANTIS, Edited by Christopher C. : Langston Hughes and the *Chicago Defender*: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62
- DIRKSEN, Everett McKinley : The Education of a Senator
- DOYLE, Don Harrison : The Social Order of a Frontier Community: Jacksonville, Illinois, 1825-70
- DUIS, Perry R. : Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837-1920
- DUNNE, Finley Peter : Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War
- EDMUNDS, Edited by R. David : Enduring Nations: Native Americans in the Midwest
- EKBERG, Carl J. : French Roots in the Illinois Country: The Mississippi Frontier in Colonial Times
- EMERSON, Edited by Thomas E. and R. Barry Lewis: Cahokia and the Hinterlands: Middle Mississippian Cultures of the Midwest
- FARNHAM, Eliza W. : Life in Prairie Land
- FARRELL, James T. : Chicago Stories
- FARRELL, James T. : Studs Lonigan
- FERBER, Edna : Fanny Herself
- FEURER, Rosemary : Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950
- FLANDERS, Robert Bruce : Nauvoo: Kingdom on the Mississippi
- FLIEGE, Stu : Tales and Trails of Illinois
- FOLEY, William E. and C. David Rice: The First Chouteaus: River Barons of Early St. Louis
- FORD, Thomas : History of Illinois: From Its Commencement as a State in 1818 to 1847
- GANZ, Edited by Cheryl R. and Margaret Strobel: Pots of Promise: Mexicans and Pottery at Hull-House, 1920-40
- GAROFALO, Douglas : Between the Museum and the City
- GITTENS, Joan : Poor Relations: The Children of the State in Illinois, 1818-1990
- GORN, Edited by Elliott J. : Muhammad Ali, the People's Champ
- GRAY, James : The Illinois
- GRIERSON, Francis : The Valley of Shadows: Sangamon Sketches
- GUNDY, Jeff : A Community of Memory: My Days with George and Clara
- HALLWAS, John E. : Dime Novel Desperadoes: The Notorious Maxwell Brothers
- HALLWAS, John : The Bootlegger: A Story of Small-Town America
- HANCHETT, William : Out of the Wilderness: The Life of Abraham Lincoln
- HANCHETT, William : The Lincoln Murder Conspiracies
- HAPGOOD, Hutchins Introduction and Notes by James R. Barrett: The Spirit of Labor
- HARRIS, Mark : City of Discontent
- HAVIGHURST, Walter : Ohio: A History
- HAYCRAFT, William R. : Yellow Steel: The Story of the Earthmoving Equipment Industry
- HICKEN, Victor : Illinois in the Civil War
- HIGBIE, Frank Tobias : Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930
- HIGDON, Hal : Leopold and Loeb: The Crime of the Century
- HODDESON, Edited by Lillian : No Boundaries: University of Illinois Vignettes
- HOFFMEISTER, Donald F. : Mammals of Illinois
- HOLZER, Harold, Gabor S. Boritt, and Mark E . Neely Jr.: The Lincoln Image: Abraham Lincoln and the Popular Print
- HUEBNER, Jeff : Murals: The Great Walls of Joliet
- ILLINOIS COMMITTEE FOR THE NATIONAL MUSEUM IN THE ARTS, The Illinois Committee for the National Museum of Women in the Arts: Illinois Women Artists: The New Millennium
- IRVING, Gary : Beneath an Open Sky: Panoramic Photographs
- IRVING, Photographs by Gary Irving; Essay by Michal Strutin: Places of Grace: The Natural Landscapes of the American Midwest
- JACKSON, Robert W. : Rails across the Mississippi: A History of the St. Louis Bridge
- JEFFORDS, Michael R., Susan L. Post, and Kenneth R. Robertson: Illinois Wilds
- JENSEN, Richard J. : Illinois: A History
- JOSLIN, Katherine : Jane Addams, a Writer's Life
- KANFER, Larry : On Second Glance: Midwest Photographs
- KANFER, Larry : Prairiescapes: Photographs
- KAY, Betty Carlson : Illinois from A to Z
- KEATING, Ann Durkin : Building Chicago: Suburban Developers and the Creation of a Divided Metropolis
- KECKLEY, Elizabeth : Behind the Scenes: Formerly a slave, but more recently modiste, and friend to Mrs. Lincoln; or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
- LAGRAND, James B. : Indian Metropolis: Native Americans in Chicago, 1945-75
- LAUNIUS, Edited by Roger D. and John E. Hallwas: Kingdom on the Mississippi Revisited: Nauvoo in Mormon History
- LESTER, Robin : Stagg's University: The Rise, Decline, and Fall of Big-Time Football at Chicago
- LEWIS, Arnold : An Early Encounter with Tomorrow: Europeans, Chicago's Loop, and the World's Columbian Exposition
- LINN, James Weber Introduction by Anne Firor Scott: Jane Addams: A Biography
- LOERZEL, Robert : Alchemy of Bones: Chicago's Luetgert Murder Case of 1897
- LOVEJOY, Owen : His Brother's Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838-64
- MADIGAN, Edited by Charles : Global Chicago
- MASTERS, Edgar Lee : Spoon River Anthology: An Annotated Edition
- MCCAFFERTY, Michael : Native American Place-Names of Indiana
- MCPHERSON, Edited by James M. : "We Cannot Escape History": Lincoln and the Last Best Hope of Earth
- MILLER, Ross : The Great Chicago Fire
- MOHR, Richard D. : Pottery, Politics, Art: George Ohr and the Brothers Kirkpatrick
- MOORE, Leonard N. : Carl B. Stokes and the Rise of Black Political Power
- OAKS, Dallin H. and Marvin S. Hill: Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith
- PEATTIE, Elia W. : The Precipice
- PECKHAM, Howard H. : Indiana: A History
- PICKLE, Linda Schelbitzki : Contented among Strangers: Rural German-Speaking Women and Their Families in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest
- PLUMMER, Mark A. : Lincoln's Rail-Splitter: Governor Richard J. Oglesby
- POLACHECK, Hilda Satt : I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl
- PRUTER, Robert : Chicago Soul
- PRUTER, Robert : Doowop: The Chicago Scene
- QUAIFE, Milo Milton : Chicago and the Old Northwest, 1673-1835
- RANDALL, Frank A. : The History of the Development of Building Construction in Chicago
- RHODEHAMEL, Edited by John and Louise Taper: "Right or Wrong, God Judge Me": The Writings of John Wilkes Booth
- ROSENTHAL, Mark, Carol Tauber, and Edward Uhlir: The Ark in the Park: The Story of Lincoln Park Zoo
- RUDWICK, Elliott : Race Riot at East St. Louis, July 2, 1917
- RYDELL, Ida B. WELLS; Frederick DOUGLASS; Irvine Garland PENN; and Ferdinand L. BARNETT--Edited by Robert W. : The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World's Columbian Exposition: The Afro-American's Contribution to Columbian Literature
- SCHEINMAN, Muriel : A Guide to Art at the University of Illinois: Urbana-Champaign, Robert Allerton Park, and Chicago
- SCHMITT, Ronald E. : Sullivanesque: Urban Architecture and Ornamentation
- SENGSTOCK, Charles A. Jr.: That Toddlin' Town: Chicago's White Dance Bands and Orchestras, 1900-1950
- SHUMAN, Compiled by Carrie V. : Favorite Dishes: A Columbian Autograph Souvenir Cookery Book
- SIMON, Paul : Lincoln's Preparation for Greatness: The Illinois Legislative Years
- SINCLAIR, Upton : The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism
- SINCLAIR, Upton : The Jungle
- SMITH, Illinois State Museum Society: Chicago Painting 1895 to 1945: The Bridges Collection
- SMITH, Philip W. : The Fishes of Illinois
- SMITH, Madeline Babcock : The Lemon Jelly Cake
- SOLBERG, Winton U. : The University of Illinois, 1894-1904: The Shaping of the University
- STEIN, Edited by Kevin and G. E. Murray: Illinois Voices: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Poetry
- STORCH, Randi : Red Chicago: American Communism at Its Grassroots, 1928-35
- STOWELL, Edited by Daniel W. : In Tender Consideration: Women, Families, and the Law in Abraham Lincoln's Illinois
- TAYLOR, Edited by Henry Louis, Jr.: Race and the City: Work, Community, and Protest in Cincinnati, 1820-1970
- THOMAS, Benjamin P. : "Lincoln's Humor" and Other Essays
- TISHLER, Edited by William H. : Midwestern Landscape Architecture
- TUTTLE, William M., Jr.: Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919
- WADE, Louise Carroll : Chicago's Pride: The Stockyards, Packingtown, and Environs in the Nineteenth Century
- WALSH, John Evangelist : The Shadows Rise: Abraham Lincoln and the Ann Rutledge Legend
- WALTHALL, Edited by John A. : French Colonial Archaeology: The Illinois Country and the Western Great Lakes
- WARREN, Edited by Lynne : Dan Peterman: Plastic Economies
- WEINBERG, Edited by Arthur and Lila : The Muckrakers
- WILLIAMSON, Joy Ann : Black Power on Campus: The University of Illinois, 1965-75
- WILSON, Edited by Douglas L. and Rodney O. Davis: Herndon's Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincoln
- WILSON, Douglas L. : Lincoln before Washington: New Perspectives on the Illinois Years
- WOODEN, Howard E. : Billy Morrow Jackson: Interpretations of Time and Light
- WRIGHT, John : Traveling the High Way Home: Ralph Stanley and the World of Traditional Bluegrass Music
- YOUNG, Biloine Whiting and Melvin L. Fowler: Cahokia, the Great Native American Metropolis
- YOUNKER, Richard : Chicago People