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This fascinating volume takes a look some of Chicago's history makers in fields such as crime, sports, politics, law, and literature.

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This fascinating volume examines native and adopted Chicagoans who have influenced history in fields such as sports, politic, and literature. Each ... More

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Thoroughly researched and magnificently written, "City of the Century" captures all the drama of Chicago's growth from a desolate fur-trading post in ... More

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From the 1910s through the Depression 30s, when Chicago was the undisputed hobo capital of the United States, a small north side neighborhood know as ... More

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This unique book, compiled from the daily series in the Sun-Times, weaves the history of Chicago's century: the stockyards, the First Ward Ball, the ... More

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In "Confronting the Color Line," Alan Anderson and George Pickering examine the hopes and strategies, the frustrations and internal conflicts, the ... More

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Steel and the steel industry are the backbone of Chicago's southeast side, an often overlooked neighborhood with a rich ethnic heritage. Bolstered ... More

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"The Wicked City" presents an account of Chicago's vice, crime, capitalism, and corruption from Pierre the Mole, who sold whiskey to the Indians, ... More

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At the close of World War II, Americans became increasingly concerned about the problem of housing for returning veterans, relocated defense workers, ... More

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As rush hour came to a close on the evening of May 25, 1950, one of Chicago's new streamlined streetcars - known as a Green Hornet - slammed into a ... More

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..". Becky Bradway writes compellingly about the place where she was raised and still lives, but she also knows that the hidden component of place is ... More

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These speeches, delivered between 1895 and 1910 by anarchist agitator Voltairine De Cleyre, eloquently express the mood of US labor militants and ... More

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"Big Town, Little City" was a 22-part series that ran in the Rockford Register Star in 1999. The series, written by Rock River Valley journalist Pat ... More

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Millions of Americans yearn for a lost sense of community, for the days when neighbors looked out for one another and families were stable and secure ... More

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Many Chicagoans rose in protest over A. J. Liebling's tongue-in-cheek tour of their fair city in 1952. Liebling found much to admire in the Windy ... More

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In 1969, the Chicago Seven were charged with intent to "incite, organize, promote, and encourage" antiwar riots during the Democratic National ... More

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Though today it can seem as if all American culture comes out of New York and Los Angeles, much of what defined the nation was produced in Chicago. ... More

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Millions of Americans yearn for a lost sense of community, for the days when neighbors looked out for one another and families were stable and secure ... More

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This distinctive collection features writings from Grant Pick's long, distinguished career in literary journalism. Pick had a uniquely open eye and ... More

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""This story of James Jones and the Handy Colony is a popular account of one of the most unusual writing colonies ever established in the United ... More

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