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Illinois History Books
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Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi (Penguin Library of American Indian History)
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avg rating 3.64 — 1,427 ratings — published 2009
Chicago's Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as illinois-history)
avg rating 3.84 — 485 ratings — published 2020
Lincoln: Twenty Years on Eastern Prairie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as illinois-history)
avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 2001
An elusive presence: The discovery of John H. Finley and his America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as illinois-history)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1979
Jolliet and Marquette: A New History of the 1673 Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as illinois-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 12 ratings — published
One Man Great Enough: Abraham Lincoln's Road to Civil War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as illinois-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 188 ratings — published 2007
Abandoned Chicago: Decay in the Windy City (America Through Time)
by (shelved 1 time as illinois-history)
avg rating 3.80 — 20 ratings — published
Cave-in-Rock Pirates and Outlaws (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 13 ratings — published
Cavern of Crime (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published
Chicago to Springfield: Crime and Politics in the 1920s (Images of America: Illinois)
by (shelved 1 time as illinois-history)
avg rating 3.17 — 12 ratings — published 2010
Stories of Springfield: Life in Lincoln's Town (American Chronicles)
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avg rating 3.00 — 5 ratings — published 2010
Starved Rock Stories: Selected Histories and Images of North Central Illinois (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as illinois-history)
avg rating 3.79 — 14 ratings — published 1997
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as illinois-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 39,027 ratings — published 2021
Mysterious Chicago: History at Its Coolest (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as illinois-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 143 ratings — published
Lewis and Clark in the Illinois Country: The Little-Told Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as illinois-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 6 ratings — published 2002
A Woman's Story of Pioneer Illinois (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as illinois-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 30 ratings — published 1920
Reminiscences Of Chicago During The Civil War (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as illinois-history)
avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 2015
The gang: A study of 1,313 gangs in Chicago by Frederic Milton Thrasher (2000-05-03)
by (shelved 1 time as illinois-history)
avg rating 3.64 — 14 ratings — published 1927
Organized Crime in Chicago, Part III of The Illinois Crime Survey, 1927 (Midway Reprint)
by (shelved 1 time as illinois-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published 1979
Al Capone: The Biography of a Self-Made Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as illinois-history)
avg rating 3.61 — 18 ratings — published 1930
The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as illinois-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 785 ratings — published 2002
Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie (The Lamar Series in Western History)
by (shelved 1 time as illinois-history)
avg rating 3.51 — 156 ratings — published 1986
The Chicago Outfit (Images of America: Illinois)
by (shelved 1 time as illinois-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 84 ratings — published 2003
Jacob Bunn: Legacy Of An Illinois Industrial Pioneer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as illinois-history)
avg rating 3.43 — 7 ratings — published 2005
Cemeteries of Illinois: A Field Guide to Markers, Monuments, and Motifs (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as illinois-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 14 ratings — published
Sun Born (People of Cahokia #2; North America's Forgotten Past #2)
by (shelved 1 time as illinois-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 339 ratings — published 2016
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as illinois-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 746,784 ratings — published 2003
Bloody Williamson: A Chapter in American Lawlessness (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 191 ratings — published 1952
“From the 1930s through the 1960s, black people across the country were largely cut out of the legitimate home-mortgage market through means both legal and extralegal. Chicago whites employed every measure, from 'restrictive covenants' to bombings, to keep their neighborhoods segregated.”
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“North Lawndale's Jewish People's Institute actively encouraged blacks to move into the neighborhood, seeking to make it a 'pilot community for interracial living.”
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