| Title | Author/Editor | Published | Categories | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |
“Hugo Martinez-Serros: South Chicago City Dump, Chicago, IL” |
Emiliano Aguilar | NFCS | |
| 2. |
“Inside Prairie Avenue-And Beyond” An article published in Chicago Classic magazine. |
Megan McKinney | CS | |
| 3. |
The Origins of the Chicago Wheel An article in Chicago Architecture Center. |
Marko Dumlija | NFCS | |
| 4. |
Midwest Portraits |
Harry Hansen
Harry Hansen link |
1923 | CS |
| 5. |
Chicago in Seven Days |
John Drury
John Drury link |
1928 | NFCS |
| 6. |
Gem of the Prairie: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld |
Herbert Asbury | 1940 | NFCS |
| 7. |
Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City |
St. Clair Drake
St. Clair Drake link |
1945 | NFCS |
| 8. |
Give the Lady What She Wants: The Story of Marshall Field & Company This history was written when the department store was in its full bloom as a legendary retailer. The narrative begins pre-Chicago Fire, when retail demand, especially among women, had expanded dramatically, then through the devastation caused by the natural disaster. |
Herman Kogan and Lloyd Wendt
Herman Kogan link |
1952 | NFCS |
| 9. |
Fabulous Chicago |
Emmett Dedmon
Emmett Dedmon link |
1953 | NFCSMA |
| 10. |
The Chicago Renaissance in American Letters: A Critical History |
Bernard Duffy | 1954 | NFCS |
| 11. |
Chicago, City of Neighborhoods: Histories & Tours |
Ellen Skerrett and Dominic A. Pacyga | 1986 | CS |
| 12. |
Chicago: City of Neighborhoods |
Dominic A. Pacyga and Ellen Skerrett
Dominic A. Pacyga link, Ellen Skerrett link |
1986 | NFCS |
| 13. |
Explosion of Chicago’s Black Street Gangs: 1900 to Present |
Useni Eugene Perkins
Useni Eugene Perkins, link |
1987 | NFCS |
| 14. |
Nelson Algren: A Walk on the Wild Side |
Bettina Drew | 1989 | NFCSBio |
| 15. |
“71st & Jeffrey” |
David Mamet
David Mamet link |
1992 | CS |
| 16. |
Writing Illinois: The Prairie, Lincoln and Chicago |
James Hurt | 1992 | NFCS |
| 17. |
Chicago’s Sacred Spaces |
Rolf Achilles
Rolf Achilles link |
1993 | NFCS |
| 18. |
The Crime of the Century Martin, then a 29-year-old Cook Count assistant state’s attorney, was the lead prosecutor in the Richard Speck murder trial. |
Dennis L. Breo and William J. Martin | 1993 | NFCS |
| 19. |
Crowdpleaser |
Marc Kelly Smith
Marc Kelly Smith link |
1996 | CSPt |
| 20. |
October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature |
Carlo Rotella
Carlo Rotella link |
1998 | NFCS |
| 21. |
Smokestacks & Skyscrapers: An Anthology of Chicago Writing |
Richard Guzman and David Starkey (ed.)
Richard Guzman link |
1999 | NFCS |
| 22. |
Chicago’s South Shore Country Club |
William M. Krueger | 2001 | NFCS |
| 23. |
Dictionary of Midwestern Literature: Vol. I: The Authors |
Phillip A. Greasley (ed.) | 2001 | NFCS |
| 24. |
The Heart of Chicago’s South Shore: A Neighborhood Coming Full Circle |
2001 | NFCS | |
| 25. |
The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and Culture |
John D'Emilio
John D’Emilio link |
2002 | NFSSCS |
| 26. |
The Encyclopedia of Chicago |
James R. Grossman, Ann Durkin Keating, Janice L. Reiff (eds)
Ann Durkin Keating link |
2004 | NFCS |
| 27. |
Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and the City, 1871-1919 |
Timothy Spears
Timothy Spears link |
2005 | NFCS |
| 28. |
Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity |
Jacqueline Najuma Stewart
Jacqueline Najuma Stewart link |
2005 | NFCS |
| 29. |
Black Writing from Chicago: In the World, Not of It? |
Richard Guzman
Richard Guzman link |
2006 | NFCS |
| 30. |
Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America |
Beryl Satter
Beryl Satter link |
2009 | NFCS |
| 31. |
Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems 1966-2009 |
Haki R. Madhubuti
Haki Madhubuti link |
2009 | FCSMAPt |
| 32. |
The Chicago Literary Renaissance |
Jan Pinkerton and Randolph H. Hudson (eds) | 2009 | NFCS |
| 33. |
The Chicago Sports Reader: 100 Years of Sports in the Windy City |
Steven A. Riess and Gerald R. Gems (eds)
Steven A. Riess link |
2009 | NFCS |
| 34. |
Chicanas of 18th Street: Narratives of a Movement from Latino Chicago |
Leonard G. Ramirez
Leonard G. Ramirez link |
2011 | NFCS |
| 35. |
Remembering Marshall Field’s |
Leslie Goddard
Leslie Goddard link |
2011 | NFCS |
| 36. |
The Chicago Literary Experience: Writing the City, 1893–1953 |
Frederik Byrn Køhlert | 2011 | NFCS |
| 37. |
The Chicago of Fiction: A Resource Guide |
James A. Kaser | 2011 | NFCS |
| 38. |
Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance |
Steven C. Tracy | 2011 | NFCS |
| 39. |
Chicago Portraits |
June Skinner Sawyers
June Sawyers link |
2012 | NFCS |
| 40. |
Chicago Whispers: A History of LGBT Chicago Before Stonewall |
St. Sukie de la Croix
St. Sukie de la Croix link |
2012 | NFCS |
| 41. |
City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago |
Gary Krist | 2012 | NFCS |
| 42. |
Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect |
Robert J. Sampson
Robert J. Sampson link |
2012 | NFCS |
| 43. |
The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream |
Thomas Dyja
Thomas Dyja link |
2013 | NFCS |
| 44. |
Steeling Chicago: South Side Stories |
Hugo Martinez-Serros
Hugo Martínez-Serros link |
2014 | SSCS |
| 45. |
“Chicago Jazz Age Still Lives in Archibald Motley’s Art” |
Chicago Tribune | 2015 | CS |
| 46. |
Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis |
Liesl Olson
Liesl Olson link |
2017 | NFCS |
| 47. |
Chicago’s Only Castle: The History of Givins Irish Castle and Its Keepers |
Errol Magidson
Errol Magidson link |
2017 | NFCS |
| 48. |
Chicago and the Making of American Modernism: Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald in Conflict |
Michelle Moore
Michelle Moore link |
2018 | NFCS |
| 49. |
“The Unexpected Power of Your Old Neighborhood” |
Carlo Rotella
Carlo Rotella link |
2019 | CSMA |
| 50. |
Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side |
Lee Bey
Lee Bey link |
2019 | NFCS |
| 51. |
The Townhouse Massacre A reconstruction of Speck’s perspective and circumstances, this account of the murderer relies a lot on psychological profiling. |
Ryan Green | 2019 | CS |
| 52. |
The World Is Always Coming to an End: Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood |
Carlo Rotella
Carlo Rotella link |
2019 | NFCS |
| 53. |
The World Is Always Coming to End: Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood |
Carlo Rotella
Carlo Rotella link |
2019 | NFCS |
| 54. |
The World of Juliette Kinzie: Chicago before the fire |
Ann Durkin Keating
Ann Durkin Keating link |
2019 | NFCSBio |
| 55. |
Queer Legacies: Stories from Chicago’s LGBTQ Archives |
John D'Emilio
John D’Emilio link |
2020 | NFCS |
| 56. |
Chicago: A Literary History |
Frederik Byrn Køhlert | 2021 | NFCS |
| 57. |
Tracing Muhammad Ali’s Memory in Chicago- A Photo Essay |
Lee Bay | 2021 | CS |
| 58. |
Making Mexican Chicago: From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification |
Mike Amezcua
Mike Amezcua link |
2022 | NFCS |
| 59. |
Oak Woods Cemetery Project |
Hyde Park Historical Society
Hyde Park Historical Society link |
2022 | NFCS |
| 60. |
Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City, 1940-1977 |
Mirelsie Velazquez
Mirelsie Velázquez link |
2022 | NFCS |
| 61. |
Uninsured in Chicago: How the Social Safety Net Leaves Latinos Behind |
Robert Vargas
Robert Vargas link |
2022 | NFCS |
| 62. |
Mexican and Chicano Literature in Chicago: Transplanting Early Roots to the Barrios and Beyond |
Marc Zimmerman
Marc Zimmerman link |
2023 | NFCS |
| 63. |
The New Naturals |
Gabriel Bump
Gabriel Bump link |
2023 | NovCS |
| 64. |
Chicago Homes: A Portrait of the City’s Everyday Architecture |
Carla Bruni and Phil Thompson
Carla Bruni link, Phil Thompson link |
2025 | NFCS |
| 65. |
Chicago in Transit |
Graham Chapman | 2026 | NFCS |
| 66. |
Doorways of Chicago |
Ronnie Frey | 2026 | NFCS |
| 67. |
Engineered Conflict: Structural Violence and the Future of Black Life in Chicago |
David Omotoso Stovall
David Omotoso Stovall link |
2026 | NFCS |
| 68. |
Fire and Clay: How Bricks Reveal the Hidden History of Chicago |
Will Quam | 2026 | NFCS |
| 69. |
The Chicago Way: An Oral History of Chicago Dining |
Michael Gebert | 2026 | NFCS |
| 70. |
The Conviction Machine: Prosecutors, Politicians, and Police Violence in Chicago |
Flint Taylor | 2026 | NFCS |
| 71. |
The Young Lords Speak: Building Revolution on the Streets of Chicago |
Jacqueline Lazú | 2026 | NFCS |
| 72. |
White, Black, Brown: Becoming Puerto Rican in Chicago |
Michael Staudenmaier | 2026 | NFCS |