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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Audio Cassette)
by Erik Larson (shelved 60 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.89 — 31,562 ratings — published 2003
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The Time Traveler's Wife (Paperback)
by Audrey Niffenegger (Goodreads author) (shelved 23 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.04 — 168,001 ratings — published 2003
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Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul (Hardcover)
by Karen Abbott (shelved 22 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.44 — 2,857 ratings — published 2007
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Crossing California (Paperback)
by Adam Langer (shelved 16 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.67 — 1,012 ratings — published 2004
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The Jungle (Paperback)
by Upton Sinclair (shelved 16 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.74 — 11,980 ratings — published 1905
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The Coast of Chicago (Paperback)
by Stuart Dybek (shelved 13 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.10 — 547 ratings — published 1990
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Then We Came to the End (Hardcover)
by Joshua Ferris (shelved 11 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.40 — 11,171 ratings — published 2007
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Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago (Crown Journeys)
by Alex Kotlowitz (shelved 11 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.89 — 317 ratings — published 2004
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Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago (paper)
by Mike Royko (shelved 11 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.07 — 406 ratings — published 1971
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There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America (Paperback)
by Alex Kotlowitz (shelved 11 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,622 ratings — published 1992
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Chicago: City on the Make: 50th Anniversary Edition, Newly Annotated (Paperback)
by Nelson Algren (shelved 10 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.10 — 222 ratings — published 1951
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Native Son (Paperback)
by Richard Wright (shelved 10 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.88 — 10,400 ratings — published 1940
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The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by Sandra Cisneros (shelved 10 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.59 — 16,327 ratings — published 1991
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
by Jim Butcher (shelved 10 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.92 — 9,721 ratings — published 2000
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The Lazarus Project (Hardcover)
by Aleksandar Hemon (shelved 9 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.58 — 2,047 ratings — published 2008
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City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America (Paperback)
by Donald L. Miller (shelved 8 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.94 — 181 ratings — published 1996
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American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation (Paperback)
by Adam Cohen (shelved 8 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.00 — 112 ratings — published 2001
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The Washington Story (Paperback)
by Adam Langer (shelved 8 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.48 — 235 ratings — published 2005
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Hairstyles of the Damned (Paperback)
by Joe Meno (shelved 8 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,936 ratings — published 2004
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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by William Cronon (shelved 8 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.29 — 373 ratings — published 1991
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Gang Leader for a Day (Hardcover)
by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh (shelved 8 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,889 ratings — published 2008
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Division Street: America (Paperback)
by Studs Terkel (shelved 7 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.02 — 296 ratings — published 1967
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The Man with the Golden Arm (50th anniv. ed.)
by Nelson Algren (shelved 7 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.08 — 621 ratings — published 1949
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The Pig and the Skyscraper: Chicago: A History of Our Future (Hardcover)
by Marco D'Eramo (shelved 7 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.70 — 33 ratings — published 1998
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Lost Chicago (Paperback)
by David Garrard Lowe (shelved 7 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.56 — 34 ratings — published 1993
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Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Saul Bellow (shelved 7 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,367 ratings — published 1975
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Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor (Hardcover)
by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh (shelved 6 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.56 — 507 ratings — published 2006
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Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America (Paperback)
by James Green (shelved 6 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.05 — 118 ratings — published 2006
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The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City (Chicago Visions and Revisions)
by Carl Smith (shelved 6 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.54 — 108 ratings — published 2006
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Sister Carrie (Paperback)
by Theodore Dreiser (shelved 6 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.52 — 3,165 ratings — published 1900
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The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow (shelved 6 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,249 ratings — published 1953
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Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (Paperback)
by Chris Ware (shelved 5 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,759 ratings — published 1999
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Chicago in Maps: 1612-2002 (Hardcover)
by Robert Holland (shelved 5 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.44 — 20 ratings — published 2005
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Death Masks (The Dresden Files, #5)
by Jim Butcher (shelved 4 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,416 ratings — published 2003
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Dreams from My Father (Paperback)
by Barack Obama (shelved 4 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.93 — 19,847 ratings — published 1995
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Ghosts of Chicago (Hardcover)
by John McNally (Goodreads author) (shelved 4 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.31 — 49 ratings — published 2008
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The Blade Itself (Hardcover)
by Marcus Sakey (shelved 4 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.45 — 287 ratings — published 2007
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Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, #2)
by Jim Butcher (shelved 4 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.97 — 7,009 ratings — published 2001
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Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, #3)
by Jim Butcher (shelved 4 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.10 — 6,341 ratings — published 2001
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There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America (Hardcover)
by William Julius Wilson (shelved 4 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.37 — 69 ratings — published 2006
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Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (Illinois)
by Eric Klinenberg (shelved 4 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.95 — 181 ratings — published 2003
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Chicago "L", The (IL) (General Series)
by Greg Borzo (shelved 4 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.08 — 22 ratings — published 2007
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Richard Nickel's Chicago: Photographs of a Lost City (Hardcover)
by Michael Williams (shelved 4 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.78 — 33 ratings — published 2006
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I Sailed with Magellan (Paperback)
by Stuart Dybek (shelved 4 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.14 — 341 ratings — published 2003
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Never Come Morning (Paperback)
by Nelson Algren (shelved 4 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.04 — 156 ratings — published 1941
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The Chicago Way (Hardcover)
by Michael Harvey (Goodreads author) (shelved 4 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.36 — 319 ratings — published 2007
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Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse (Paperback)
by Steve Bogira (shelved 4 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.89 — 282 ratings — published 2005
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American Art Deco: Modernistic Architecture and Regionalism (Hardcover)
by Carla Breeze (shelved 3 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.75 — 7 ratings — published 2003
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Dead Beat (The Dresden Files, #7)
by Jim Butcher (shelved 3 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.32 — 5,083 ratings — published 2005
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The Chicago Movie Palaces of Balaban and Katz (IL) (Images of America)
by David Balaban (shelved 3 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.50 — 7 ratings — published 2006
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"On the Rolling Stones - You will walk out of the Amphitheatre after watching the Stones perform and suddenly the Chicago stockyards smell clean and good by comparison."
— Tom Fitzpatrick
— Tom Fitzpatrick
"Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning...proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with
Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation."
— Carl Sandburg
Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation."
— Carl Sandburg
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Justice Incarnate (Shadows of Justice - Book One)
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1 chapters — updated Mar 13, 2008 12:37PM — 1 person liked it
