Chicago

Books about people, settings, or topics from or featuring Chicago.

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
The House on Mango Street
The Jungle
The Great Believers
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
The Time Traveler's Wife
Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
Native Son
Dark Matter
Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago
There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
Becoming
City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
Nelson Algren
Big-shot town, small-shot town, jet-propelled old-fashioned town, by old-world hands with new-world tools built into a place whose heartbeat carries farther than its shout, whose whispering in the night sounds less hollow than its roistering noontime laugh: they have builded a heavy-shouldered laughter here who went to work too young.
Nelson Algren, Chicago: City on the Make

Carl Sandburg
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

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