| 1. |
“Inside Prairie Avenue-And Beyond”
An article published in Chicago Classic magazine.
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Megan McKinney
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CS |
| 2. |
The Origins of the Chicago Wheel
An article in Chicago Architecture Center.
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Marko Dumlija
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NFCS |
| 3. |
Midwest Portraits
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Harry Hansen
Harry Hansen link
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1923 |
CS |
| 4. |
Chicago in Seven Days
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John Drury
John Drury link
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1928 |
NFCS |
| 5. |
Gem of the Prairie: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld
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Herbert Asbury
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1940 |
NFCS |
| 6. |
Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City
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St. Clair Drake
St. Clair Drake link
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1945 |
NFCS |
| 7. |
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.
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Herman Kogan and Lloyd Wendt
Herman Kogan link
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1952 |
NFCS |
| 8. |
Fabulous Chicago
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Emmett Dedmon
Emmett Dedmon link
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1953 |
NFCSMA |
| 9. |
The Chicago Renaissance in American Letters: A Critical History
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Bernard Duffy
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1954 |
NFCS |
| 10. |
Chicago: City of Neighborhoods
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Dominic A. Pacyga and Ellen Skerrett
Dominic A. Pacyga link,
Ellen Skerrett link
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1986 |
NFCS |
| 11. |
Writing Illinois: The Prairie, Lincoln and Chicago
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James Hurt
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1992 |
NFCS |
| 12. |
October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature
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Carlo Rotella
Carlo Rotella link
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1998 |
NFCS |
| 13. |
Smokestacks & Skyscrapers: An Anthology of Chicago Writing
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Richard Guzman and David Starkey (ed.)
Richard Guzman link
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1999 |
NFCS |
| 14. |
Dictionary of Midwestern Literature: Vol. I: The Authors
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Phillip A. Greasley (ed.)
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2001 |
NFCS |
| 15. |
The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and Culture
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John D'Emilio
John D’Emilio link
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2002 |
NFSSCS |
| 16. |
The Encyclopedia of Chicago
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James R. Grossman, Ann Durkin Keating, Janice L. Reiff (eds)
Ann Durkin Keating link
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2004 |
NFCS |
| 17. |
Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and the City, 1871-1919
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Timothy Spears
Timothy Spears link
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2005 |
NFCS |
| 18. |
Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity
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Jacqueline Najuma Stewart
Jacqueline Najuma Stewart link
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2005 |
NFCS |
| 19. |
Black Writing from Chicago: In the World, Not of It?
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Richard Guzman
Richard Guzman link
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2006 |
NFCS |
| 20. |
The Chicago Literary Renaissance
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Jan Pinkerton and Randolph H. Hudson (eds)
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2009 |
NFCS |
| 21. |
The Chicago Sports Reader: 100 Years of Sports in the Windy City
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Steven A. Riess and Gerald R. Gems (eds)
Steven A. Riess link
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2009 |
NFCS |
| 22. |
Chicanas of 18th Street: Narratives of a Movement from Latino Chicago
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Leonard G. Ramirez
Leonard G. Ramirez link
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2011 |
NFCS |
| 23. |
Remembering Marshall Field’s
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Leslie Goddard
Leslie Goddard link
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2011 |
NFCS |
| 24. |
The Chicago Literary Experience: Writing the City, 1893–1953
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Frederik Byrn Køhlert
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2011 |
NFCS |
| 25. |
The Chicago of Fiction: A Resource Guide
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James A. Kaser
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2011 |
NFCS |
| 26. |
Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance
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Steven C. Tracy
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2011 |
NFCS |
| 27. |
Chicago Portraits
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June Skinner Sawyers
June Sawyers link
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2012 |
NFCS |
| 28. |
Chicago Whispers: A History of LGBT Chicago Before Stonewall
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St. Sukie de la Croix
St. Sukie de la Croix link
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2012 |
NFCS |
| 29. |
City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago
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Gary Krist
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2012 |
NFCS |
| 30. |
The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream
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Thomas Dyja
Thomas Dyja link
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2013 |
NFCS |
| 31. |
Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis
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Liesl Olson
Liesl Olson link
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2017 |
NFCS |
| 32. |
Chicago and the Making of American Modernism: Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald in Conflict
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Michelle Moore
Michelle Moore link
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2018 |
NFCS |
| 33. |
The World of Juliette Kinzie: Chicago before the fire
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Ann Durkin Keating
Ann Durkin Keating link
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2019 |
NFCSBio |
| 34. |
Queer Legacies: Stories from Chicago’s LGBTQ Archives
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John D'Emilio
John D’Emilio link
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2020 |
NFCS |
| 35. |
Chicago: A Literary History
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Frederik Byrn Køhlert
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2021 |
NFCS |
| 36. |
Tracing Muhammad Ali’s Memory in Chicago- A Photo Essay
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Lee Bay
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2021 |
CS |
| 37. |
Making Mexican Chicago: From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification
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Mike Amezcua
Mike Amezcua link
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2022 |
NFCS |
| 38. |
Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City, 1940-1977
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Mirelsie Velazquez
Mirelsie Velázquez link
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2022 |
NFCS |
| 39. |
Uninsured in Chicago: How the Social Safety Net Leaves Latinos Behind
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Robert Vargas
Robert Vargas link
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2022 |
NFCS |
| 40. |
Mexican and Chicano Literature in Chicago: Transplanting Early Roots to the Barrios and Beyond
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Marc Zimmerman
Marc Zimmerman link
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2023 |
NFCS |
| 41. |
Chicago Homes: A Portrait of the City’s Everyday Architecture
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Carla Bruni and Phil Thompson
Carla Bruni link,
Phil Thompson link
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2025 |
NFCS |