Books on Chicago
Reference Books
Caught in the Middle: America's Heartland in the Age of Globalism
By Richard C. Longworth; published by Bloomsbury USA (2007)
Chicago Metropolis 2020: The Chicago Plan for the Twenty-First Century
By Elmer W. Johnson; published by University of Chicago Press (2001)
Chicago Neighborhoods and Suburbs: A Historical Guide
Edited By Ann Durkin Keating; published by University of Chicago Press (2008)
Global Chicago
Edited By Charles Madigan; published by University of Illinois Press (2004)
The Encyclopedia of Chicago
Edited By James R. Grossman, Ann Durkin Keating, and Janice L. Reiff; published
by University Of Chicago Press (2004)
The New Chicago:
A Social and Cultural Analysis
Edited By John P. Koval, Larry Bennett, Michael I. J. Bennett, Fassil Demissie,
Roberta Garner and Kiljoong Kim; published by Temple University Press (2006)
The Plan of
Chicago @ 100: 15 Views of Burnham's Legacy for a New Century
Edited and published by The Ely Chapter, Lambda Alpha International (2009)
Non-Fiction Books
American
Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation
Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor; published by Back Bay Books (2001)
Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago
By Mike Royko; published by Plume (1988)
Chicago '68
By David Farber; published by University of Chicago Press (1994)
Chicago and the Illinois Central Railroad
By Clifford J. Downey; published by Arcadia Publishing (2007)
Chicago Heights at the Crossroads of the Nation
By Dominic Candeloro and Barbara Paul; published by Arcadia Publishing (2004)
Chicago Then and Now
By Elizabeth McNulty; published by Thunder Bay Press (2007)
Chicago: City on the Make
By Nelson Algren; published by University of Chicago Press (1951)
Chicago's Classical Architecture: The Legacy of the White City
By David Stone and Carroll William Westfall; published by Arcadia Publishing (2006)
Chicago's Monuments, Markers and Memorials
By John Graf and Steve Skorpad; published by Arcadia Publishing (2002)
City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America
By Donald Miller; published by Simon & Schuster (1996)
Destination Chicago Jazz
By Sandor Demlinger and John Steiner; published by Arcadia Publishing (2003)
Division Street: America, Working and Talking to Myself
By Studs Terkel; published by New Press (2006)
Hull-House
By Peggy Glowacki and Julia Hendry; published by Arcadia Publishing (2004)
Nature's
Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
By William Cronon; published by W. W. Norton & Company (1992)
Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago
By Alex Kotlowitz; published by Crown (2004)
Plan of Chicago
By Daniel Burnham and Edward H. Bennett; published by Princeton Architectural Press
(1993)
Street Signs Chicago: Neighborhood and Other Illusions of Big-City Life
By Charles Bowden and Lew Kreinberg; published by Chicago Review Press (1981)
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed
America
By Erik Larson; published by Vintage (2004)
The Chicago "L"
By Greg Borzo; published by Arcadia Publishing (2007)
The Chicago Great Western Railway
By David J. Fiore Sr.; published by Arcadia Publishing (2006)
The Global City
By Saskia Sassen; published by Princeton University Press (2001)
The New Chicago:
A Social and Cultural Analysis
By John Koval, Larry Bennett, Michael Bennett, Fassil Demissie, Roberta Garner,
and Kiljoong Kim; published by Temple University Press (2006)
The World's Columbian Exposition: The Chicago World's Fair of 1893
By Norman Bolotin and Christine Laing; published by University of Illinois Press
(2002)
There Are No Children Here
By Alex Kotlowitz; published by Anchor Publishing (1992)
World War II Chicago
By Paul M. Green and Melvin G. Holli; published by Arcadia Publishing (2003)
Fiction Books
An Unfinished Season
By Ward Just; published by Mariner Books (2005)
Chicago: A Novel
By Alaa Al Aswany; published by Harper (2008)
Chicago Poems
By Carl Sandburg; published by Pierce Press (2008)
Dangling Man
By Saul Bellow; published by Penguin Classics (2006)
Humboldt's Gift
By Saul Bellow; published by Penguin Classics (2008)
I Sailed With Magellan
By Stuart Dybek; published by Picador (2004)
Knock on Any Door
By Willard Motley; published by Northern Illinois University Press (1989)
Maud Martha,
a Novel
By Gwendolyn Brooks; published by Third World Press (1992)
Native Son
By Richard Wright; published by HarperCollins (2005)
Presumed Innocent
By Scott Turow; published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1987)
Ravelstein
By Saul Bellow; published by Penguin Classics (2001)
Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser, published by New American Library (1994)
Studs Lonigan: A
Trilogy
James T. Farrell, published by Library of America (2004)
The Adventures of Augie March
By Saul Bellow; published by Penguin Classics (2006, originally published in 1953)
The Coast of Chicago
By Stuart Dybek; published by Picador (2004)
The Cliff-Dwellers
By Henry Blake Fuller; published by HardPress (2008)
The Dean's December
By Saul Bellow; published by Penguin Classics (1998)
The House on Mango Street
By Sandra Cisneros; published by Vintage Books (1991)
The Jungle
By Upton Sinclair; published by Signet Classics (2001)
The Lazarus Project
By Aleksander Hemon; published by Riverhead Hardcover (2008)
The Man
with the Golden Arm
By Nelson Algren; published by Seven Stories Press (1999)
The Pit: A Story of Chicago
By Frank Norris; published by Penguin Classics (1994)
Windy City: A Novel of Politics
By Scott Simon; published by Random House (2008)
Books on Ethnic Communities
An Immigrant Class: Oral Histories from Chicago's Newest Immigrants
By Jeff Libman; published by Flying Kite, Inc (2004)
Arabs of Chicagoland
By Ray Hanania; published by Arcadia Publishing (2005)
Asian Indians of Chicago
By the Indo-American Center; published by Arcadia Publishing (2003)
Assyrians in Chicago
By Vasili Shoumanov; published by Arcadia Publishing (2001)
Bosnian Americans of Chicagoland
By Samira Puskar; published by Arcadia Publishing (2007)
Chicago Italians at Work
By Peter Nicholas Pero; published by Arcadia Publishing (2009)
Chicago's Forgotten Synagogues
By Robert A. Packer; published by Arcadia Publishing (2007)
Chicago's Italians: Immigrants, Ethnics, Americans
By Dominic Candeloro; published by Arcadia Publishing (2003)
Chicago's Polish Downtown
By Victoria Granacki and the Polish Museum of America; published by Arcadia Publishing
(2004)
Chinese in Chicago: 1870-1945
By Chuimei Ho, Soo Lon Moy, and the Chinatown Museum Foundation; published by Arcadia
Publishing (2005)
Czechs of Chicagoland
By Malynne Sternstein; published by Arcadia Publishing (2008)
Ethnic Chicago: A Multicultural Portrait
Edited By Melvin G. Holli and Peter Jones; published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Company (1995)
Filipinos in Chicago
By Estrella Ravelo Alamar and Willi Red Buhay; published by Arcadia Publishing (2001)
German Chicago Revisited
By Raymond Lohne; published by Arcadia Publishing (2001)
German Chicago: The Danube Swabians and the American Aid Societies
By Raymond Lohne; published by Arcadia Publishing (1999)
Greek-American Pioneer Women of Illinois
By the Greek Women's University Club and Elaine Thomopoulos; published by Arcadia
Publishing (2000)
Greeks in Chicago
By Michael George Davros Ph.D.; published by Arcadia Publishing (2009)
Iranians in Chicagoland
By Hamid Akbari and Azar Khounani; published by Arcadia Publishing (2005)
Irish Chicago
By John Gerald McLaughlin; published by Arcadia Publishing (2003)
Italians in Chicago
By Dominic Candeloro; published by Arcadia Publishing (1999)
Italian-American Women of Chicagoland
By the Italian-American Women's Club; published by Arcadia Publishing (2003)
Japanese Americans in Chicago
By Alice Murata; published by Arcadia Publishing (2003)
Korean Americans in Chicago
By Kyu Young Park; published by Arcadia Publishing (2003)
Mexican Chicago
By Rita Arias Jirasek and Carlos Tortolero; published by Arcadia Publishing (2001)
Puerto Rican Chicago
By Wilfredo Cruz; published by Arcadia Publishing (2005)
Swedish Chicago
By Paul Michael Peterson; published by Arcadia Publishing (2003)
Ukrainians of Chicagoland
By Myron B. Kuropas Ph.D.; published by Arcadia Publishing (2006)