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The Devil in the White City
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3.99 avg rating — 606,467 ratings
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For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Chicago
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3.69 avg rating — 3,438 ratings
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The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired Chicago
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3.65 avg rating — 4,576 ratings
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Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
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3.62 avg rating — 12,452 ratings
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Ugly Prey: An Innocent Woman and the Death Sentence That Scandalized Jazz Age Chicago
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4.02 avg rating — 240 ratings
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Poison Girls
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4.24 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Al Capone's Beer Wars: A Complete History of Organized Crime in Chicago During Prohibition
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3.45 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
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3.82 avg rating — 9,790 ratings
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The Beast of Chicago: An Account of the Life and Crimes of Herman W. Mudgett, Known to the World As H.H. Holmes
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3.83 avg rating — 686 ratings
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Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
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4.04 avg rating — 10,199 ratings
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Leopold and Loeb: The Crime of the Century
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3.94 avg rating — 426 ratings
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Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
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4.04 avg rating — 1,005 ratings
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Family Secrets: The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob
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3.86 avg rating — 313 ratings
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Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903
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3.89 avg rating — 193 ratings
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Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Seven
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4.10 avg rating — 218 ratings
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Blood Runs Green: The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago
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3.23 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation
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3.86 avg rating — 1,746 ratings
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Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone
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3.86 avg rating — 666 ratings
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The Chicago Outfit (Images of America: Illinois)
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3.94 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America
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4.01 avg rating — 726 ratings
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The Gangs of Chicago: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld
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3.64 avg rating — 434 ratings
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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre: The Untold Story of the Gangland Bloodbath That Brought Down Al Capone
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3.91 avg rating — 172 ratings
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Mr. Capone
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3.92 avg rating — 416 ratings
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Armed and Dangerous: Memoirs of a Chicago Policewoman
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4.07 avg rating — 185 ratings
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Accardo: The Genuine Godfather
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3.90 avg rating — 144 ratings
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The Bootleggers: The Story of Chicago's Prohibition Era
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3.45 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Alchemy of Bones: Chicago's Luetgert Murder Case of 1897
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4.12 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Gangsters & Grifters: Classic Crime Photos from the Chicago Tribune
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4.07 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Empire of Deception: From Chicago to Nova Scotia--The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation
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3.86 avg rating — 1,746 ratings
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A Treasury of Victorian Murder Compendium: Including: Jack the Ripper, The Beast of Chicago, Fatal Bullet
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3.97 avg rating — 276 ratings
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Heartland Serial Killers: Belle Gunness, Johann Hoch, and Murder for Profit in Gaslight Era Chicago
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3.48 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Inside the Murder Castle: Investigating Chicago's First Serial Killer, H.H. Holmes
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3.12 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Belle Gunness: The True Story of the Slaying Mother (True Crime by Evil Killers #14)
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3.38 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties
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3.48 avg rating — 237 ratings
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The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther
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4.44 avg rating — 2,089 ratings
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Chicago Street Cop: Amazing True Stories from the Mean Streets of Chicago and Beyond
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3.96 avg rating — 68 ratings
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The Life and Times of Frank Balistrieri: The Last, Most Powerful Godfather of Milwaukee
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3.27 avg rating — 62 ratings
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The Pied Piper Of South Shore
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3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America's Most Wanted Gangster
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3.80 avg rating — 904 ratings
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The Man Who Got Away: The Bugs Moran Story: A Biography
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4.21 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Deadly Thrills: The True Story of Chicago's Most Shocking Killers
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3.55 avg rating — 53 ratings
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When Corruption Was King: How I Helped the Mob Rule Chicago, Then Brought the Outfit Down
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3.87 avg rating — 275 ratings
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Defending the Damned: Inside Chicago's Cook County Public Defender's Office
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3.85 avg rating — 478 ratings
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Capone: The Man and the Era
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4.10 avg rating — 566 ratings
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Chicago by Gaslight: A History of Chicago's Netherworld: 1880-1920
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3.57 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders
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3.94 avg rating — 5,738 ratings
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Al Capone and His American Boys: Memoirs of a Mobster's Wife
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3.77 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Mob Cop: My Life of Crime in the Chicago Police Department
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3.60 avg rating — 111 ratings
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John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster
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3.82 avg rating — 2,789 ratings
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Operation Family Secrets: How a Mobster's Son and the FBI Brought Down Chicago's Murderous Crime Family
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3.70 avg rating — 1,013 ratings
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The Chicago Killer
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4.31 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Capone: A Photographic Portrait of America's Most Notorious Gangster
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3.54 avg rating — 59 ratings
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The Man Who Killed Boys: The John Wayne Gacy, Jr. Story
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3.83 avg rating — 458 ratings
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After Capone: The Life and World of Chicago Mob Boss Frank The Enforcer" Nitti"
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4.29 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Return Again to the Scene of the Crime: A Guide to Even More Infamous Places in Chicago
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4.06 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Depraved: The Definitive True Story of H.H. Holmes, Whose Grotesque Crimes Shattered Turn-Of-The-Century Chicago
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3.96 avg rating — 2,187 ratings
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The Strange Case Of Dr. H.H. Holmes
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3.68 avg rating — 197 ratings
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The Boys in Chicago Heights
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3.63 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Devil's Disciple: The Deadly Dr. H.H. Holmes
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3.60 avg rating — 25 ratings
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H.H. Holmes: The Devil In Me
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3.57 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Chicago Conspiracy Trial
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4.12 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Murder Castle of H.H. Holmes: Eyewitness Accounts, Diagrams, and Pictures
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3.73 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Eight
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4.10 avg rating — 218 ratings
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Voices of the Chicago Eight: A Generation on Trial
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3.97 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Insane Chicago Way: The Daring Plan by Chicago Gangs to Create a Spanish Mafia
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3.78 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Renegade Dreams: Living through Injury in Gangland Chicago
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4.14 avg rating — 231 ratings
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St. Valentine's Day Massacre, 1929
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2.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Race Riot: Chicago In the Red Summer of 1919
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3.86 avg rating — 113 ratings
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The Enforcer: Spilotro, The Chicago Mob's Man Over Las Vegas
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3.71 avg rating — 135 ratings
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People Wasn't Made to Burn: A True Story of Housing, Race, and Murder in Chicago
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4.22 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Our America
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4.29 avg rating — 1,942 ratings
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The Tangled Web: The Life and Death of Richard Cain - Chicago Cop and Mafia Hit Man
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3.33 avg rating — 123 ratings
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Fatal Fortune: The Death of Chicago's Millionaire Orphan
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3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Family Affair: Greed, Treachery, and Betrayal in the Chicago Mafia
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3.82 avg rating — 72 ratings
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The Chicago Nurse Murders
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2.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Murder and Mayhem in Chicago's Downtown
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3.91 avg rating — 23 ratings
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A History of Violence:: An Encyclopedia of 1400 Chicago Mob Murders
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3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Murder During the Chicago World's Fair: The Killing of Little Emma Werner
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2.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Whacked: One Hundred Years Murder and Mayhem in the Chicago Outfit (The Mob Files Series)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Murder and Mayhem on Chicago's North Side
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3.76 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Murder and Mayhem on Chicago's West Side
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4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Murder and Mayhem on Chicago's South Side
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3.80 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Shattered Sense of Innocence: The 1955 Murders of Three Chicago Children
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4.15 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Murder and Mayhem in Chicago's Vice Districts
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3.81 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Gangsters and Organized Crime in Jewish Chicago
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Shadows of Chicago: The True Story of Three Men and the Crimes That Shocked America
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3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Cop Shop: True Crime on the Streets of Chicago
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3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Drew Peterson: The Tribune Files: The True-Crime Story of the Wife-Killing Cop
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3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Touhy vs. Capone: The Chicago Outfit’s Biggest Frame Job
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2.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Guns and Roses: The Untold Story of Dean O'Banion, Chicago's Big Shot Before Al Capone
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4.27 avg rating — 48 ratings
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The Neighborhood Outfit: Organized Crime in Chicago Heights
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4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings
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