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Fiction

 

AIA Guide to Chicago. 917.7311 AIA

 

Bonansinga, Jay. The Sinking of the Eastland. 910.452 BON

 

Brandt, Nat. Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903. 977.3 BRA

 

Bukowski, Douglas. Pictures of Home. 977.311 BUK

 

Cahan, Richard. A Court That Shaped America: Chicago’s Federal District Court From Abe Lincoln to Abbie Hoffman. 347.7322 CAH

 

Chicago Days: 150 Defining Moments in the Life of a Great City . 977.3 CHI

 

Christiansen, Richard. A Theater of Our Own. 792.09773 CHR

 

Cooley, Robert. When Corruption Was King: How I Helped the Mob Rule Chicago, Then Brought the Outfit Down. 364.106 COO

 

Enright, Laura. Chicago’s Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Murderous Mobsters, Midway Monsters and Windy City Oddities. 977.3 ENR

 

Greenberg, Joel. A Natural History of the Chicago Region. 508.77311 GRE

 

Larson, Erik. The Devil in the White City. 364.1523 LAR

 

Libman, Jeff. An Immigrant Class: Oral Histories From Chicago’s Newest Immigrants. 325.77311 LIB

 

The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition. 977.311 MAY

 

Montanarelli, Lisa and Thomas O’Gorman. Strange But True Chicago: Tales of the Windy City. 977.311 MON

 

O’Faolain, Nuala. The Story of Chicago May. 364.1092 OFA

 

Shea, Stuart. Wrigley Field: The Unauthorized Biography. 796.35706 SHE

 

Stange, Maren. Bronzeville: Black Chicago in Pictures, 1941-1943. 977.3 BRO

 

Young, David. The Iron Horse and the Windy City: How Railroads Shaped Chicago. 385.09773 YOU

 

Biography

 

Ciccone, F. Richard. Royko: A Life in Print. B ROY

 

Cohen, Adam. American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley. B DAL

 

Diliberto, Gioia. A Useful Woman: The Early Life of Jane Addams. B ADD

 

Smith, Richard Norton. The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick. B MCC

 

 

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