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The Devil in the White City
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 778,315 ratings
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There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
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4.30 avg rating — 16,304 ratings
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Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
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4.07 avg rating — 25,939 ratings
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American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto
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3.78 avg rating — 353 ratings
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Liliana (Liliana, #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Seven
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4.11 avg rating — 285 ratings
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Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City
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4.07 avg rating — 175 ratings
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There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America
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3.38 avg rating — 205 ratings
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Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago
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4.23 avg rating — 3,211 ratings
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Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City
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4.31 avg rating — 152 ratings
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Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago
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3.83 avg rating — 1,300 ratings
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Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor
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3.73 avg rating — 829 ratings
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Twenty Years at Hull House
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3.66 avg rating — 1,378 ratings
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Chicago: City on the Make
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4.15 avg rating — 1,152 ratings
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Race Riot: Chicago In the Red Summer of 1919
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3.86 avg rating — 129 ratings
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The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City
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3.51 avg rating — 467 ratings
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Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman
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3.88 avg rating — 56 ratings
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City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America
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4.08 avg rating — 1,752 ratings
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The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City
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3.77 avg rating — 676 ratings
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The Easy Chain
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4.30 avg rating — 155 ratings
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The Book of Angels: Twin Flames Rising
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4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Poison Girls
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4.23 avg rating — 73 ratings
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In Deep: How I Survived Gangs, Heroin, and Prison to Become a Chicago Violence Interrupter
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4.19 avg rating — 217 ratings
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What Next, Chicago?: Notes of a Pissed-Off Native Son
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4.43 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Back of the Yards: The Making of a Local Democracy
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3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity
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3.85 avg rating — 357 ratings
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Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher's First Year
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3.91 avg rating — 6,649 ratings
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Urban Flow: Bike Messengers and the City
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3.73 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
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4.03 avg rating — 2,142 ratings
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Becoming
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4.43 avg rating — 1,234,293 ratings
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Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration
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3.60 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The Jungle
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3.78 avg rating — 157,310 ratings
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Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago
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3.61 avg rating — 289 ratings
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The Social Order of the Slum: Ethnicity and Territory in the Inner City
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4.19 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960
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4.10 avg rating — 348 ratings
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Neo-Bohemia
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3.69 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
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4.26 avg rating — 3,673 ratings
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A Neighborhood That Never Changes: Gentrification, Social Preservation, and the Search for Authenticity
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3.97 avg rating — 39 ratings
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American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation
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4.15 avg rating — 957 ratings
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The Spirit of Youth and City Streets (Illini Book)
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3.74 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
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3.85 avg rating — 1,123 ratings
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The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
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4.24 avg rating — 800 ratings
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The Gold Coast and the Slum: A Sociological Study of Chicago's Near North Side (University of Chicago Sociological Series)
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3.80 avg rating — 41 ratings
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In America's Court: How a Civil Lawyer Who Likes to Settle Stumbled into a Criminal Trial
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3.67 avg rating — 24 ratings
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American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
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4.13 avg rating — 1,615 ratings
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City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago
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3.66 avg rating — 3,440 ratings
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