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=** World's Fairs: **= **//The book of the fair: an historical and descriptive presentation viewed through the Columbian exposition at Chicago in 1893//** by Hubert Howe Bancroft.
 * New acquisition 2014/2015 **
 * 506 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 907.4 COL ban**

//**The world's Columbian exposition: the Chicago world's fair of 1893**// by Norman Bolotin & Christine Laing.
 * 166 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 907.4 COL bol**

**//The fair women: the story of the Women's Building at the world's Columbian exposition, Chicago 1893//** by Jeanne Madeline Weimann.
 * 611 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 907.4 COL wei**


 * //The 1933 Chicago world's fair: a century of progress//** by Cheryl R. Ganz.
 * New acquisition 2014/2015 **
 * **Call #: CHI 907.4 PRO gan**
 * 206 pages.

//**Chicago's 1933 world's fair: a century of progress in vintage postcards**// by. Samantha Gleisten.
 * **Call #: CHI 907.4 PRO gle**
 * 128 pages.

= Chicago Area Guidebooks: = //**Chicago: a pictorial guide**// by Marilyn D. Clancy & Ron Schramm.
 * 96 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 910.202 CLA**

//**The streets and san man's guide to Chicago eats**// by Dennis Foley.
 * 124 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 910.202 FOL**

**//A native's guide to Chicago 4th edition.//**
 * 479 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 910.202 NAT**

//**Historic bars of Chicago**// by Sean Parnell.
 * 271 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 910.202 PAR**

//**A cook's guide to Chicago: where to find everything you need and lots of things you didn't know you did**// by Marilyn Pocius.
 * 335 pahes.
 * **Call #: CHI 910.202 POC**

//**Oddball Illinois: a guide to some really strange places**// by Jerome Pohlen.
 * 244 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 910.202 POH**

//**A native's guide to Chicago's northern suburbs**// by Jason Fargo.
 * 207 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 910.202 SUB nor**

//**A native's guide to Chicago's northwest suburbs**// by Martin A. Bartels.
 * 207 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 910.202 SUB nw**

//**A native's guide to Chicago's south suburbs**// by Christina Bultinck & Christy Johnston-Czarnecki.
 * 242 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 910.202 SUB sou**

//**A native's guide to Chicago's western suburbs**// by Laura Mazzuca Toops & John W. Toops, Jr.
 * 210 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 910.202 SUB wes**

= Maps & Atlases: = **//Chicago in maps: 1612-2002//** by Robert A. Holland.
 * 208 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 912 HOL**

= Geneology & Graveyards: = //**Finding your Chicago ancestors: a beginners guide to family history in the city and Cook County**// by Grace DuMelle.
 * 321 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 929.3 DUM**

//**A walk through Graceland Cemetery**// by Barbara Lanctot.
 * 61 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 929.5 GRA**

//**Graveyards of Chicago: the people, history, art, and lore of Cook County cemeteries**// by Matt Hucke & Ursula Bielski.
 * 230 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 929.5 HUC**

= Chicago History: =

//** Comprehensive Histories **//
**//A wild kind of boldness: the Chicago history reader//** edited by[| Rosemary K. Adams].
 * 458 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.31 ADA**

//**Real Chicago: photographs from the files of the Chicago Sun-Times**// by Richard Cahan, Michael Williams, & Neal Samors.
 * 263 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.31 CAH**

//**Chicago dyas: 150 defining moments in the life of a great city**// by the staff of the Chicago Tribune.
 * 276 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.31 CHI**

//**Great Chicago fires: historic blazes that shaped a city**// by David Cowan.
 * 169 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.31 COW**

**//Chaos, creativity & culture: a sampling of Chicago in the twentieth century//** ​by [|Kenan Heise].
 * 192 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.31 HEI**

**//Chicago under glass: early photographs from the Chicago Daily News//** by Marc Jacob & Richard Cahan
 * Acquisition added 2013/20 ** 14
 * 263 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.31 JAC**

//**Chicago: a pictorial history**// by Herman Kogan & Lloyd Wendt (1958 edition).
 * 224 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.31 KOG**


 * [[image:CHI yesterday's chicago.jpg width="280" height="390" caption="Click image for author biography." link="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-rickkogan,0,5863976.columnist"]]//Yesterday's//** //**Chicago**// by Herman Kogan & Rick Kogan.
 * Acquisition added 2013/20 ** 14
 * 204 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.31 KOG**

//**Chicago sketches: urban tales, stories, and legends from Chicago history**// by June Skinner Sawyers.
 * 274 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.31 SAW**

//**City of big shoulders: a history of Chicago**// by Robert G. Spinney.
 * 300 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.31 SPI**

//**20th century Chicago: 100 years--100 voices**// bu the Chicago Sun-Times & edited by Adrienne Drell.
 * 216 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.31 SUN**

= Chicago Ethnic History = //**Ethnic Chicago: a multicultural portrait**// by Melvin Holli & Perter d'A. Jones.
 * 648 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.3104 ETH**

**//The ethnic frontier: essays in the history of group survival in Chicago and the Midwest//** edited by Melvin Holli & Perter d'A. Jones.
 * 422 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.3104 ETH**

//** Chicago's Chinese History **// //**Chinese in Chicago (1870-1945)**// edited by Chuimei Ho and Soo Lon Moy.
 * 128 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.3104 ETH chi**

//** Chicago's LGBT History **//
**//Out and proud in Chicago: a visual history of Chicago's Gay movement//** edited by [|Tracy Baim].
 * 224 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.3104 LGBT**

//** Chicago's African American History **//
//**Bridges of memory: Chicago's first wave of black migration: an oral history**// by Timuel D. Black, Jr.
 * 616 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.310496 BLA**
 * Chicago Magazine article about **[|Timuel Black, Jr.]**

**//Our America: life and death on the south side of Chicago//** by LeAlan Jones & Lloyd Newman.
 * New acquisition 2013/2014. **
 * 203 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.310496 JON**

//**Those Pullman blues: an oral history of the African American railroad attendant**// by David D. Perata.
 * 178 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.310496 PER**

**//Black Chicago: The making of a negro ghetto//** by Allan H. Spear.
 * Acquisition added 2013/20 ** 14
 * 254 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.310496 SPE**

//**An autobiography of black Chicago**// by Dempsey J. Travis.
 * 378 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.310496****099 TRA**

//**An autobiography of black politics**// by Dempsey J. Travis.
 * 679 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.310496****099 TRA**

//**The chosen...the damned...and other people**// by Dempsey J. Travis.
 * 175 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.310496****099 TRA**

//**Chicago originals: a cast of the city's colorful characters**// by Kenan Heise and Ed Baumann.
 * Chicago Collected Biography **
 * In this updated version of Chicago Originals, you will learn how Oprah Winfrey got her name. How a newspaper slugger became a top gangster mouthpiece. What Sondra Gair did for the city. Plus delightful, dramatic profiles of more than 150 other Chicago Originals. Good and bad, here are the characters who make Chicago the only city of its kind.
 * 307 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.31099 HEI**

//**Chicago Portraits: biographies of 250 famous Chicagoans**// by June Skinner Sawyers.
 * 322 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.31099 SAW**

//**Speaking ill of the dead: jerks in Chicago history**// by Adam Selzer.
 * Acquisition added 2013/20 ** 14
 * 217 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.31099 SEL**

//**Chicago lives: men and women who shaped our city.**//
 * You may never have heard of Donald Mussay, but if you’ve looked at the Sears Tower, you’ve seen the window hanger’s work. You may be familiar with Richard J. Daley and Harold Washington, but you will be captivated by Emma Schweer, the woman who might have been America’s oldest elected officeholder. Through their stories, Chicago Lives tells the story of twentieth-century Chicago itself. Charming, surprising, inspirational, and historical, Chicago Lives presents elegant narratives first told on the obituary pages of the Chicago Tribune. Among them were faces we saw every day and thought we knew well enough until their obituaries gave us a final, fuller look.
 * 280 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.31099 TRI**

//** Chicago History Before 1871 **//
**//Early Chicago as seen by a cartoonist//** by Ralph E. Wilder (cartoonist) and Charles S. Winslow (writer).
 * 276 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.31103 WIN**

//**The hoofs and guns of the storm: Chicago's Civil War connections**// by Arnie Bernstein.
 * 276 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.31103** **1861 BER**

//**Challenging Chicago: coping with everyday life, 1837-1920**// by Perry R. Duis.
 * 430 pages.
 * **Call #:** **CHI 977.311041 DUI**

//** Chicago History 1871-1900: **//
//** General: **// //**Urban disorder and the shape of belief: the Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket bomb and the model town of Pullman**// by Carl Smith. >
 * 395 pages.
 * **Call #:** **CHI 977.311041** **SMI**

//** Great Chicago Fire (1871): **// //**The great Chicago fire and the myth of Mrs. O'Leary's cow**// by Richard F. Bales. >
 * The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 swallowed up more than three square miles in two days, leaving thousands homeless and 300 dead. Throughout history, the fire has been attributed to Mrs. O’Leary, an immigrant Irish milkmaid, and her cow. On one level, the tale of Mrs. O’Leary’s cow is merely the quintessential urban legend. But the story also represents a means by which the upper classes of Chicago could blame the fire’s chaos on a member of the working poor. Although that fire destroyed the official county documents, some land tract records were saved. Using this and other primary source information, Richard F. Bales created a scale drawing that reconstructed the O’Leary neighborhood. Next he turned to the transcripts—more than 1,100 handwritten pages—from an investigation conducted by the Board of Police and Fire Commissioners, which interviewed 50 people over the course of 12 days. The board’s final report, published in the Chicago newspapers on December 12, 1871, indicates that commissioners were unable to determine the cause of the fire. And yet, by analyzing the 50 witnesses’ testimonies, the author concludes that the commissioners could have determined the cause of the fire had they desired to do so. Being more concerned with saving their own reputation from post-fire reports of incompetence, drunkenness and bribery, the commissioners failed to press forward for an answer. The author has uncovered solid evidence as to what really caused the Great Chicago Fire.
 * 338 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.311041** **1871 BAL**

//**The great Chicago fire**// by Robert Cromie.
 * 282 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.311041** **1871 CRO**

//**The great Chicago fire, in eyewitness accounts and 70 contemporary photographs and illustrations**// by David Lowe (ed.).
 * New acquisition 2013/2014. **
 * 87 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.311041** **1871 LOW**

//**The great fire**// by Jim Murphy.
 * 144 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.311041** **1871 MUR**
 * **Click for [|Chicago fire website].**

//**Mrs. O'Leary's comet: cosmic causes of the great Chicago fire**// by Mel Waskin.
 * Did Mrs O'Leary's cow cause the fire? Or was it something different, something much bigger? Mel Waskin explores the bigger possibility -- that the Chicago Fire was caused by the earth's collision with a comet. He draws on a wide range of sources, from speculations on catastrophism to astronomical observations to eyewitness accounts of the fateful night in Chicago, and in Wisconsin and Michigan, where companion fires blazed.
 * 168 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.311041** **1871 WAS**

//** 1890's **// //**The city comes of age: Chicago in the 1890s**// by Susan E. Hirsh & Robert I Goler.
 * A well-illustrated examination of the unrestrained urban, industrial, and population growth that swept this quintessential American city.
 * 170 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.311041** **1890 HIR**

//** Chicago History 1900-1955: **//
//** Iroquois Theater Fire (1903): **// //**Chicago death trap: the Iroquois Theater fore of 1903**// by Nat Brandt.
 * 180 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.311041** **1903 BRA**

//**Chicago History (Fall 2003): The Magazine of the Chicago Historical Society.**//
 * 28 page article //Inferno at the Iroquois.//
 * **Call #: CHI 977.311041** **1903 CHI**

//**Tinderbox: The Iroquois Theatre disaster of 1903**// by Anthony Hatch.
 * 274 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.311041** **1903 HAT**

//** Eastland Disaster (1915) **// //**The sinking of the Eastland: America's forgotten tragedy**// by Jay Bonasinga.
 * 280 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.311041** **1915 BON**

//**Eastland: legacy of the Titanic**// by George W. Hilton.
 * 364 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.311041** **1915 HIL**

//** Chicago Race Riot (1919): **// **//The Chicago race riots: July, 1919//** by Carl Sandburg.
 * 82 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.311042** **1919 SAN**

//**Race riot: Chicago in the red summer of 1919**// by William M. Tuttle, Jr.
 * 305 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.311042** **1919 TUT**

//** Chicago Biography 1900-1955: **// **//Big Bill Thompson, Chicago, and the politics of image//** by Douglas Bukowski.
 * 273 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.311042092 THO**

= Chicago History 1955-Present = **//A view from Chicago's city hall: mid-century to millennium//** by Melvin G. Holli & Paul M. Green. >
 * 128 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.3110043 1955 HOL**

//** Our Lady of the Angels school fire (1958): **// //**To sleep with angels: the story of a fire**// by David Cowan and John Kuenster.
 * 299 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.3110043 1958 COW**
 * [|Powerhouse topical website] about all aspects of the OLA fire!

//** Democratic National Convention and Civil Unrest (1968): **// //**The Chicago Seven political protest trial**// by Karen Alonso. >
 * 112 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.3110043 1968 ALO**

//**Chicago '68**// by David Farber. >
 * 304 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.3110043 1968 FAR**

//**Voices of the Chicago eight: a generation on trial**// by Tom Hayden, Ron Sossi, & Frank Condon.
 * New acquisition 2013/2014. **
 * 277 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.3110043 1968 HAY**

//**Battleground Chicago: the police and the 1968**// **//D//****//emocrati//c //national convention//** by Frank Kusch. >
 * 206 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.3110043 1968 KUS**

//**Conspiracy in the streets: the extraordinary trial of the Chicago eight** edited by Jon Wiener.//
 * New acquisition 2013/2014. **
 * 283 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.3110043 1968 WIE**

//**After Daley: Chicago politics in transition**// edited Samuel K. Gove & Luis H. Msotti.
 * New acquisition 2013/2014. **
 * 244 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.3110043 1982 GOV**

//** Election and Administration of Mayor Harold Washington (1983-1987): **// //**The making of the mayor: Chicago 1983**// edited by Melvin G. Holli and Paul M. Green. >
 * pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.3110043 1983 HOL**

//**Harold: Photographs from the Harold Washington Years**// by Antonio Dickey, Mark Pokempner, & Salim Muwakkil.
 * 212 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.3110043 1983 MUK**

//**Bashing Chicago traditions: Harold Washington's last campaign**// edited by Melvin G. Holli & Paul M. Green. >
 * New acquisition 2013/2014. **
 * 217 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.3110043 1987 HOL**

//**Chicago History (Fall 2003): The Magazine of the Chicago Historical Society.**//
 * 20 page article //Harold Washington: the Man and the Movement//
 * **Call #: CHI 977.311041** **1903 CHI**

//** Election and Administration of Mayor Richard M. Daley (1989-2012): **// //**Restoration 1989: Chicago elects a new Daley**// edited by Paul M. Green & Melvin G. Holli.
 * New acquisition 2013/2014. **
 * 212 pages.
 * **CHI 977.3110043 1989 GRE**

//**It happened four years ago: Mayor Daley's brutal conquest of Chicago's first ward**// by Peter Zelchenko. >
 * 191 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.3110043 1999 ZEL**

//** Chicago Biography 1955-Present **// ** (Alphabetical order by name of subject): ** //**Fighting Jane: mayor Jane Byrne and the Chicago machine**// by Bill Granger & Lori Granger. >
 * New acquisition 2013/2014. **
 * 244 pages
 * **Call #: CHI 977.3110043092 BYR**

//**American pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley: his battle for Chicago and the nation**// by Adam Cohen & Elizabeth Taylor. >
 * 614 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.3110043092 DAL**

//**First son: the biography of Richard M. Daley**// by Keith Koeneman.
 * New acquisition 2013/2014. **
 * 367pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.3110043092 DAL**

**//The Daley legacy: looking back at four decades of the Chicago mayors//** by Chicago Sun-Times.
 * New acquisition 2013/2014. **
 * 143 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.3110043092 DAL**

**//Harold Washington: the mayor, the man//** by Alto//n Miller.//
 * New acquisition 2013/2014. **
 * 312 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.3110043092 WAS**

**//Harold Washington: a political biography//** by Florence Hamlish Levinsohn.
 * New acquisition 2013/2014. **
 * 308 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.3110043092 WAS**


 * //Harold Washington, the people's mayor: an authorized biography of Mayor Harold Washington//** by Dempsey Travis.
 * 349 pages.
 * **Call #: CHI 977.3110043092 WAS**