Chicago in history and fiction (fiction and nonfiction)

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The Devil in the White City
The Devil in the White City really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 739,917 ratings
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Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul 3.63 avg rating — 13,089 ratings
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The Time Traveler's Wife
The Time Traveler's Wife really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,843,126 ratings
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The Jungle
The Jungle 3.78 avg rating — 152,252 ratings
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The House on Mango Street
The House on Mango Street 3.69 avg rating — 223,000 ratings
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Chicago: City on the Make
Chicago: City on the Make 4.15 avg rating — 1,122 ratings
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American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation
American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation 4.15 avg rating — 916 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 4.48 avg rating — 113,305 ratings
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City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago
City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago 3.65 avg rating — 3,344 ratings
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City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America
City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America 4.07 avg rating — 1,696 ratings
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 371,121 ratings
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Illusions of Magic: Love and Intrigue in 1933 Chicago
Illusions of Magic: Love and Intrigue in 1933 Chicago 3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Whispers in the Reading Room (The Chicago World's Fair Mystery, #3)
Whispers in the Reading Room (The Chicago World's Fair Mystery, #3) 3.79 avg rating — 1,449 ratings
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Chicago Poems
Chicago Poems 4.01 avg rating — 2,623 ratings
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The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream
The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream 3.51 avg rating — 1,404 ratings
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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West 4.26 avg rating — 3,510 ratings
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Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago
Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago 4.22 avg rating — 2,993 ratings
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Division Street: America
Division Street: America 4.17 avg rating — 684 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
Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America 4.06 avg rating — 1,190 ratings
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Trade Secrets
Trade Secrets 3.48 avg rating — 170 ratings
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The Finders (Mace Reid K-9 Mystery, #1)
The Finders (Mace Reid K-9 Mystery, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 3,245 ratings
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Sister Carrie
Sister Carrie 3.77 avg rating — 41,372 ratings
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The World's Columbian Exposition: The Chicago World's Fair of 1893
The World's Columbian Exposition: The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 4.11 avg rating — 103 ratings
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There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America 4.30 avg rating — 15,926 ratings
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The Jazz Palace
The Jazz Palace 3.65 avg rating — 834 ratings
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Murder At Wrigley Field
Murder At Wrigley Field
by: Troy Soos
3.80 avg rating — 468 ratings
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For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago
For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago 3.71 avg rating — 3,692 ratings
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Native Son
Native Son 4.04 avg rating — 103,289 ratings
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The Hostage (Great Chicago Fire Trilogy #1)
The Hostage (Great Chicago Fire Trilogy #1) 3.93 avg rating — 2,480 ratings
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1. Windy City Blues, 2.Tunnel Vision - 2 V.I. Warshawski Mysteries in 1
1. Windy City Blues, 2.Tunnel Vision - 2 V.I. Warshawski Mysteries in 1 4.34 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Return to the Scene of the Crime: A Guide to Infamous Places in Chicago
Return to the Scene of the Crime: A Guide to Infamous Places in Chicago 3.84 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, #2)
Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, #2) 3.98 avg rating — 206,763 ratings
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Blood Runs Green: The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago
Blood Runs Green: The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago 3.24 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, #3)
Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, #3) 4.14 avg rating — 175,015 ratings
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A Nice Little Place on the North Side: A History of Triumph, Mostly Defeat, and Incurable Hope at Wrigley Field
A Nice Little Place on the North Side: A History of Triumph, Mostly Defeat, and Incurable Hope at Wrigley Field 3.74 avg rating — 1,425 ratings
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Lost Chicago
Lost Chicago 4.28 avg rating — 185 ratings
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Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago 3.91 avg rating — 1,231 ratings
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Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series 4.05 avg rating — 11,322 ratings
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Malicious Masquerade
Malicious Masquerade
by: Alan Cupp
4.01 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Scandinavians in Chicago: The Origins of White Privilege in Modern America
Scandinavians in Chicago: The Origins of White Privilege in Modern America 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Chicago: A Biography
Chicago: A Biography 3.81 avg rating — 426 ratings
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The Keepers (Mace Reid K-9 Mystery, #2)
The Keepers (Mace Reid K-9 Mystery, #2) 4.10 avg rating — 1,278 ratings
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The Lost (Mace Reid K-9 Mystery, #3)
The Lost (Mace Reid K-9 Mystery, #3) 4.01 avg rating — 1,001 ratings
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Rising Up from Indian Country: The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago
Rising Up from Indian Country: The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago 3.91 avg rating — 102 ratings
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The Night Bookmobile
The Night Bookmobile 3.49 avg rating — 6,550 ratings
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Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets 4.07 avg rating — 25,134 ratings
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Chicago Then and Now (Then & Now Thunder Bay)
Chicago Then and Now (Then & Now Thunder Bay) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 162 ratings
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Damned in Paradise (Nathan Heller, #8)
Damned in Paradise (Nathan Heller, #8) 4.05 avg rating — 410 ratings
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American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto
American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto 3.77 avg rating — 350 ratings
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Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 3.85 avg rating — 1,095 ratings
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Guns and Roses: The Untold Story of Dean O'Banion, Chicago's Big Shot Before Al Capone
Guns and Roses: The Untold Story of Dean O'Banion, Chicago's Big Shot Before Al Capone 4.29 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The F***ing Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel
The F***ing Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel 4.26 avg rating — 296 ratings
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Set the Night on Fire
Set the Night on Fire 4.01 avg rating — 245 ratings
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Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960
Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960 4.09 avg rating — 338 ratings
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Death at Pullman
Death at Pullman 3.66 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Slaughterhouse: Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the World It Made
Slaughterhouse: Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the World It Made 3.73 avg rating — 77 ratings
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The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation 4.03 avg rating — 2,071 ratings
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Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City
Chicago on the Make: Power and Inequality in a Modern City 4.17 avg rating — 63 ratings
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A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919
A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 3.67 avg rating — 1,205 ratings
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Chicago '68
Chicago '68 3.80 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Death at the Fair
Death at the Fair 3.37 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Chicago: A Novel
Chicago: A Novel 2.91 avg rating — 1,527 ratings
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Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)
Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4) 4.26 avg rating — 158,700 ratings
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Death Masks (The Dresden Files, #5)
Death Masks (The Dresden Files, #5) 4.29 avg rating — 145,071 ratings
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The Chicago River: A Natural and Unnatural History
The Chicago River: A Natural and Unnatural History 3.68 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Blood Rites (The Dresden Files, #6)
Blood Rites (The Dresden Files, #6) 4.29 avg rating — 136,797 ratings
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Death at Chinatown
Death at Chinatown 3.74 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Dead Beat (The Dresden Files, #7)
Dead Beat (The Dresden Files, #7) 4.41 avg rating — 132,246 ratings
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Proven Guilty (The Dresden Files, #8)
Proven Guilty (The Dresden Files, #8) 4.39 avg rating — 127,018 ratings
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The Gangs of Chicago: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld
The Gangs of Chicago: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld 3.65 avg rating — 454 ratings
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Turn Coat (The Dresden Files, #11)
Turn Coat (The Dresden Files, #11) 4.44 avg rating — 110,203 ratings
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Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)
Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10) 4.43 avg rating — 115,246 ratings
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White Night (The Dresden Files, #9)
White Night (The Dresden Files, #9) 4.38 avg rating — 125,228 ratings
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Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side
Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side 4.38 avg rating — 3,351 ratings
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Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class
Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class
by: Larry Tye
4.08 avg rating — 421 ratings
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Changes (The Dresden Files, #12)
Changes (The Dresden Files, #12) 4.51 avg rating — 120,951 ratings
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A thousand and one afternoons in Chicago
A thousand and one afternoons in Chicago
by: Ben Hecht
3.87 avg rating — 224 ratings
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Alchemy of Bones: Chicago's Luetgert Murder Case of 1897
Alchemy of Bones: Chicago's Luetgert Murder Case of 1897 4.06 avg rating — 50 ratings
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The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service
The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service 4.33 avg rating — 3,399 ratings
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Spoonful
Spoonful 4.07 avg rating — 56 ratings
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We'Ve Got a Job to Do: Chicagoans and World War II
We'Ve Got a Job to Do: Chicagoans and World War II really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Painted Black (Street Stories, #1)
Painted Black (Street Stories, #1) 4.09 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Company Orders
Company Orders 3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Belly Dancer (The Dancer Chronicles, #1)
The Belly Dancer (The Dancer Chronicles, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 256 ratings
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South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration
South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration 3.96 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Moonlight (Rose of Anzio, #1)
Moonlight (Rose of Anzio, #1) 4.11 avg rating — 720 ratings
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The Easy Chain
The Easy Chain
by: Evan Dara
4.30 avg rating — 145 ratings
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The Book of Angels: Twin Flames Rising
The Book of Angels: Twin Flames Rising
by: Maya El
4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Poison Girls
Poison Girls 4.24 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Where We Belong
Where We Belong 4.24 avg rating — 3,299 ratings
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Light Changes Everything
Light Changes Everything 4.12 avg rating — 3,720 ratings
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Storing Up Trouble (American Heiresses, #3)
Storing Up Trouble (American Heiresses, #3) 4.31 avg rating — 1,590 ratings
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Someone's Listening
Someone's Listening 3.70 avg rating — 7,334 ratings
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Wild Women and the Blues
Wild Women and the Blues 3.77 avg rating — 7,344 ratings
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A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun 3.85 avg rating — 107,586 ratings
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How Sweet the Sound (How Sweet the Sound, #1)
How Sweet the Sound (How Sweet the Sound, #1) 4.12 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Depraved: The Definitive True Story of H.H. Holmes, Whose Grotesque Crimes Shattered Turn-of-the-Century Chicago
Depraved: The Definitive True Story of H.H. Holmes, Whose Grotesque Crimes Shattered Turn-of-the-Century Chicago 3.98 avg rating — 2,427 ratings
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Neanderthal Seeks Human (Knitting in the City, #1)
Neanderthal Seeks Human (Knitting in the City, #1) 3.88 avg rating — 67,617 ratings
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Smitten with the Best Man (Chicago Law #1)
Smitten with the Best Man (Chicago Law #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,960 ratings
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Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes
Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes 3.72 avg rating — 283 ratings
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