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Chicago: City of the Century
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General Information | African-Americans in Chicago | Architecture and Infrastructure | Biographies |
Chicago Companies & Businesses | Chicago-Based Fiction | The Fires | Immigrants | Labor History |
Politics, Law Enforcement, and Reform | World's Columbian Exposition
WTTW-Channel 11 in Chicago ran a three-part American Experience program called "Chicago: City of the Century" during the month of January 2003. The following is a list of titles to learn more about this amazing city.
General Information
Algren, Nelson. Chicago: City on the Make. 50th anniversary edition. 2001. 977.311 ALG
Buisseret, David. Historic Illinois from the Air. 1990. 977.3 BUI
Cameron, Robert. Above Chicago: a New Collection of Historical and Original Aerial Photographs of Chicago. 1992. 977.311 CAM
Danckers, Ulrich. Compendium of the Early History of Chicago to the Year 1835 When the Indians Left. 2000. 977.311 DAN
Davis, James. Frontier Illinois. 1998. 977.3 DAV
Dedmon, Emmett. Fabulous Chicago. 1981. 977.311 DED
Duis, Perry. Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life 1837-1920. 1998. 977.311 DUI
Duis, Perry. Chicago: Creating New Traditions. 1976. 977.311 DUI
Fanning, Charles. Finley Peter Dunne and Mr. Dooley: the Chicago Years. 1978. 818 DUN Z
Heise, Kenan. Chicago the Beautiful: A City Reborn. 2001. 977.311 HEI
Holt, Glen E. Chicago: A Historical Guide to the Neighborhoods: The Loop and the South Side. 1979. 977.311 HOL
Miller, Donald L. City of the Century: the Epic of Chicago and the Making of America. 1996. 977.311 MIL
Pacyga, Dominic. Chicago, City of Neighborhoods: Histories & Tours. 1986. 917.7311 PAC
Samors, Neil. Neighborhoods within Neighborhoods: Twentieth Century Life on Chicago's Far North Side. 2002. 977.311 SAM
Terkel, Studs. Chicago. 1986. 977.311 TER
20th Century Chicago: 100 Years 100 Voices. 2000. 977.311 TWE
African-Americans in Chicago
Black, Timuel D. Bridges of Memory: Chicago's First Wave of Black Migration. 2003. 977.3 BLA
Black, Timuel D. Bridges of Memory: Chicago's Second Generation of Black Migration. 2007. 977.3 BLA
Grossman, James R. Land of Hope : Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration. 1989. 973.0496 GRO
Architecture and Infrastructure
Bluestone, Daniel M. Constructing Chicago. 1991. 977.311 BLU
Buder, Stanley. Pullman: an Experiment in Industrial Order and Community Planning, 1880-1930. 1967. 977.311 BUD
Hill, Libby. The Chicago River: A Natural and Unnatural History. 2000. 977.311 HIL
Kamin, Blair. Why Architecture Matters: Lessons from Chicago. 2001. 720.977311 KAM
Siry, Joseph. The Chicago Auditorium Building: Adler and Sullivan's Architecture and the City. 2002. 720.977311 SIR
Solzman, David M. The Chicago River: an Illustrated History and Guide to the River and Its Waterways. 1998. 977.311 SOL
The Sky's the Limit: A Century of Chicago Skyscrapers. 1990. 720.483 SKY
Biographies
Bergreen, Laurence. Capone: The Man & the Era. 1994. B CAPONE
Cohen, Adam. American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley: His Battle for Chicago and the Nation. 2000. B DALEY
Elshtain, Jean. Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy: A Life. 2001. B ADDAMS
Eifert, Virginia. Louis Jolliet, Explorer of Rivers. 1961. B JOLLIET
Herr, Theodore. Seventy Years in the Chicago Stockyards. 1969. B HERR
Levinsohn, Florence. Harold Washington: A Political Biography. 1983. B WASHINGTON
Madsen, Axel. The Marshall Fields: Evolution of an American Business Dynasty. 2002. B FIELD
Ross, Ishbel. Silhouette in Diamonds: the Life of Mrs. Potter Palmer. 1960. B PALMER
Skinner Sawyers, June. Chicago Portraits: Biographies of 250 Famous Chicagoans. 1991. 920.077311 SAW
Smith, Richard Norton. The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert McCormick 1880-1955. 1997. 070.5092 MCC
Chicago Companies & Businesses
Wendt, Lloyd. Give the Lady What She Wants! The Story of Marshall Field & Company. 1952. 658.87 WEN
Wendt, Lloyd. Chicago Tribune: The Rise of a Great American Newspaper. 1979. 070.7311 WEN
Chicago-Based Fiction
Dreiser, Theodore. Sister Carrie. 1900. DREISER
Dreiser, Theodore. The Titan. 1925. DREISER
Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. 1906. SINCLAIR
The Fires
Bales, Richard F. The Great Chicago Fire and the Myth of Mrs. O'Leary's Cow 2003. 977.311 BAL
Brandt, Nat Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903. 2003. 977.311 BRA
Cowan, David. To Sleep with the Angels: the Story of a Fire. 1996. 977.311 COW.
Cromie, Robert. The Great Chicago Fire. 1963. 977.311 CRO.
The Great Chicago Fire: in Eyewitness Accounts and 70 Contemporary Photographs and Illustrations. 1979. 977.311 GRE.
Hatch, Anthony P. Tinder Box: The Iroquois Theatre Disaster, 1903. 2003. 977.311 HAT
Miller, Ross. American Apocalypse: the Great Fire and the Myth of Chicago. 1990. 720.977311 MIL.
Immigrants
Bigott, Joseph C. From Cottage to Bungalow: Houses and the Working Class in Metropolitan Chicago, 1869-1929. 2001. 363.5 BIG.
Cutler, Irving. Jews of Chicago: From Shtetl to Suburb. 1996. 973.04924 CUT.
Ethnic Chicago. 1981. 305.8 ETH.
Labor History
Adelman, William. Touring Pullman: A Study in Company Paternalism: A Walking Guide to the Pullman Community in Chicago, Illinois. 1977. 917.7311 ADE.
Avrich, Paul. The Haymarket Tragedy. 1984. 977.311 AVR.
The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s: Essays on Labor & Politics. 1999. 331.892 PUL.
Werstein, Irving. Strangled Voices: the Story of the Haymarket Affair. 1970. 977.311 WER.
Politics, Law Enforcement, and Reform
Binder, John J. The Chicago Outfit.2003. 977.7311 BIN
Cahan, Richard. A Court that Shaped America: Chicago's Federal District Court: From Abe Lincoln to Abbie Hoffman. 2002. 347.732 CAH
Lindberg, Richard. Chicago by Gaslight: A History of Chicago's Netherworld, 1880-1920.1996. 977.7311 LIN
Lindberg, Richard. Return Again to the Scene of the Crime: A Guide to Even More Infamous Places in Chicago.2001. 917.7311 LIN
The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition. 1995. 977.311 MAY.
Russo, Gus. The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America. 2001. 364.106 RUS.
Sautter, R. Craig. Inside the Wigwam: Chicago Presidential Conventions, 1860-1996. 1996. 324.973 SAU.
World's Columbian Exposition
Badger, Reid. The Great American Fair: The World's Columbian Exposition and American Culture. 1979. 977.311 BAD.
Brown, Julie K. Contesting Images: Photography and the World's Columbian Exposition. 1994. 977.311 BRO.
Burg, David. Chicago's White City of 1893. 1976. 977.311 BUR.
Grand Illusions: Chicago's World's Fair of 1893. 1993. 977.311 GRA.
Larson, Erik. Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America 2003. 977.311 LAR.
Compiled by
Colleen Ringel
Reference Department
Morton Grove Public Library
01/03. Updated 3/2003. Updated 5/2004.
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