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Chicago and the University of Chicago

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General Books & Guidebooks

Chicago's Urban Nature

Chappell, Sally A. Kitt
A Guide to the City's Architecture + Landscape
July 2007

Soldier Field

Ford, Liam T. A.
A Stadium and Its City
October 2009 E-book

Millennium Park

Gilfoyle, Timothy J.
Creating a Chicago Landmark
June 2006

Guide to Chicago's Murals

Gray, Mary Lackritz
April 2001

Natural History of the Chicago Region

Greenberg, Joel
July 2002

Of Prairie, Woods, and Water

Greenberg, Joel
Two Centuries of Chicago Nature Writing
May 2008

Encyclopedia of Chicago

Grossman, James R.
October 2004

Portraits from the Park

Harney, Thomas W.
Comiskey Park Photographs, 1973-1990
April 2013 New Book

Chicago Neighborhoods and Suburbs

Keating, Ann Durkin
A Historical Guide
November 2008

Chicagoland

Keating, Ann Durkin
City and Suburbs in the Railroad Age
November 2005

Art of Migration

Macnamara, Peggy
Birds, Insects, and the Changing Seasons in Chicagoland
July 2013 New Book E-book

Chicago

Pacyga, Dominic A.
A Biography
October 2009 E-book

From Black Sox to Three-Peats

Rapoport, Ron
A Century of Chicago's Best Sportswriting from the "Tribune," "Sun-Times," and Other Newspapers
October 2013 New Book

Chicago's Famous Buildings

Schulze, Franz
November 2003

Open Door

Share, Don
One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of "Poetry" Magazine
September 2012 New Book E-book

Chicago River

Solzman, David M.
An Illustrated History and Guide to the River and Its Waterways, Second Edition
July 2006

Chicago Architecture

City in a Garden

Bachrach, Julia S.
A History of Chicago's Parks, Second Edition
May 2012 New Book

American Palace

Bagnall, David
Chicago’s Samuel M. Nickerson House
February 2012

Chicago's Historic Hyde Park

Davis, Susan O'Connor
July 2013 New Book E-book

Chicago Schoolhouse

Gyure, Dale Allen
High School Architecture and Educational Reform, 1856-2006
April 2011

Burnham of Chicago

Hines, Thomas S.
Architect and Planner, Second Edition
December 2008

Chicago Makes Modern

Jacob, Mary Jane
How Creative Minds Changed Society
December 2012 New Book E-book

Terror and Wonder

Kamin, Blair
Architecture in a Tumultuous Age
November 2010 E-book

Lost Chicago

Lowe, David Garrard
October 2010

Envisioning the Bloomingdale

Lyster, Clare
5 Concepts
April 2010

Chicago 1890

Merwood-Salisbury, Joanna
The Skyscraper and the Modern City
July 2009

Mies van der Rohe

Schulze, Franz
A Critical Biography, New and Revised Edition
November 2012 New Book E-book

Plan of Chicago

Smith, Carl
Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City
August 2006 E-book

Marion Mahony Reconsidered

Van Zanten, David
July 2011

Chicago Architecture

Waldheim, Charles
Histories, Revisions, Alternatives
September 2005

Midstream

Wasserman, Richard
The Chicago River 1999-2010
February 2012

Henry Ives Cobb's Chicago

Wolner, Edward W.
Architecture, Institutions, and the Making of a Modern Metropolis
June 2011 E-book

Arts & Culture

Chicago: City on the Make

Algren, Nelson
Sixtieth Anniversary Edition
October 2011

Compass

Coleman, Janet
The Improvisational Theatre that Revolutionized American Comedy
November 1991

Slow Trains Overhead

Gibbons, Reginald
Chicago Poems and Stories
May 2010 E-book

Chicagoan

Harris, Neil
A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age
November 2008

World Film Locations: Chicago

Harris, Scott Jordan
April 2013 New Book

Chicago under Glass

Jacob, Mark
Early Photographs from the Chicago Daily News
November 2007

Bigger, Brighter, Louder

Jones, Chris
150 Years of Chicago Theater as Seen by "Chicago Tribune" Critics
October 2013 New Book

Power Stronger Than Itself

Lewis, George
The AACM and American Experimental Music
May 2008 E-book

Re: Chicago

Lincoln, Louise
February 2012

Newberry 125

Newberry Library,
Stories of Our Collection
November 2012 New Book

I Feel So Good

Riesman, Bob
The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy
May 2011 E-book

Playing in Time

Rotella, Carlo
Essays, Profiles, and Other True Stories
September 2012 New Book E-book

Early Royko

Royko, Mike
Up Against It in Chicago
May 2010

For the Love of Mike

Royko, Mike
More of the Best of Mike Royko
April 2001

One More Time

Royko, Mike
The Best of Mike Royko
April 1999

Royko in Love

Royko, Mike
Mike's Letters to Carol
September 2010 E-book

Hack

Samarov, Dmitry
Stories from a Chicago Cab
October 2011 E-book

You Were Never in Chicago

Steinberg, Neil
October 2012 New Book E-book

Veeck--As In Wreck

Veeck, Bill
The Autobiography of Bill Veeck
April 2001 E-book

History & Social Issues

Third City

Bennett, Larry
Chicago and American Urbanism
November 2010 E-book

Sundays at Sinai

Brinkmann, Tobias
A Jewish Congregation in Chicago
June 2012 New Book E-book

Organizing Schools for Improvement

Bryk, Anthony S.
Lessons from Chicago
January 2010 E-book

Black Metropolis

Drake, St. Clair
August 1993

Slim's Table

Duneier, Mitchell
Race, Respectability, and Masculinity
August 1992

Chicago '68

Farber, David
April 1988 E-book

Brown in the Windy City

Fernandez, Lilia
Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago
December 2012 New Book E-book

Selling the Race

Green, Adam
Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940-1955
November 2006

Land of Hope

Grossman, James R.
Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration
February 1991 E-book

Making the Second Ghetto

Hirsch, Arnold R.
Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960
May 1998 E-book

Chicago

Hudson, John C.
A Geography of the City and Its Region
July 2006

Blueprint for Disaster

Hunt, D. Bradford
The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing
July 2009 E-book

Rising Up from Indian Country

Keating, Ann Durkin
The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago
August 2012 New Book E-book

Heat Wave

Klinenberg, Eric
A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
July 2002

Citizen

Knight, Louise W.
Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy
November 2005 E-book

First Son

Koeneman, Keith
The Biography of Richard M. Daley
March 2013 New Book E-book

Battleground Chicago

Kusch, Frank
The Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention
May 2008

White Field, Black Sheep

Markelis, Daiva
A Lithuanian-American Life
November 2010 E-book

Chicago

Mayer, Harold M.
Growth of a Metropolis
May 1973

Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago

Pacyga, Dominic A.
Workers on the South Side, 1880-1922
November 2003

Black on the Block

Pattillo, Mary
The Politics of Race and Class in the City
April 2007 E-book

Black Picket Fences, Second Edition

Pattillo, Mary
Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class
June 2013 New Book E-book

As Others See Chicago

Pierce, Bessie Louise
Impressions of Visitors, 1673-1933
May 2004

History of Chicago, Volume I

Pierce, Bessie Louise
The Beginning of a City 1673-1848
September 2007

History of Chicago, Volume II

Pierce, Bessie Louise
From Town to City 1848-1871
September 2007

History of Chicago, Volume III

Pierce, Bessie Louise
The Rise of a Modern City, 1871-1893
September 2007

Chicago Business and Industry

Reiff, Janice L.
From Fur Trade to E-Commerce
May 2013 New Book

Great American City

Sampson, Robert J.
Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect
February 2012 E-book

Smoldering City

Sawislak, Karen
Chicagoans and the Great Fire, 1871-1874
December 1995

Chicago Conspiracy Trial

Schultz, John
Revised Edition
April 2009

No One Was Killed

Schultz, John
The Democratic National Convention, August 1968
April 2009

City Water, City Life

Smith, Carl
Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago
April 2013 New Book E-book

Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief

Smith, Carl
The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman, Second Edition
November 2007 E-book

Gang

Thrasher, Frederic Milton
A Study of 1,313 Gangs in Chicago
March 2013 New Book

Exit Zero

Walley, Christine J.
Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago
January 2013 New Book E-book

Forever Open, Clear, and Free

Wille, Lois
The Struggle for Chicago's Lakefront
June 1991

The University of Chicago

American Egyptologist

Abt, Jeffrey
The Life of James Henry Breasted and the Creation of His Oriental Institute
January 2012 E-book

Great Latke-Hamantash Debate

Cernea, Ruth Fredman
November 2005

Restoring Justice

Levi, Edward H.
The Speeches of Attorney General Edward H. Levi
May 2013 New Book E-book

Building Ideas

Pridmore, Jay
An Architectural Guide to the University of Chicago
August 2013 New Book