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The Devil in the White City
The Devil in the White City really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 739,920 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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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 — 25,136 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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Liliana (Liliana, #1)
Liliana (Liliana, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Seven
Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Seven 4.09 avg rating — 276 ratings
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Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City
Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City 4.06 avg rating — 172 ratings
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There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America
There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America 3.39 avg rating — 204 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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Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City
Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City 4.32 avg rating — 150 ratings
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Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago
Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago 3.82 avg rating — 1,281 ratings
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Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor
Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor 3.73 avg rating — 828 ratings
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Twenty Years at Hull House
Twenty Years at Hull House 3.65 avg rating — 1,328 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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Race Riot: Chicago In the Red Summer of 1919
Race Riot: Chicago In the Red Summer of 1919 3.86 avg rating — 122 ratings
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The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City
The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City 3.51 avg rating — 452 ratings
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Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman
Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman 3.83 avg rating — 53 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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The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City
The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City 3.77 avg rating — 670 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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In Deep: How I Survived Gangs, Heroin, and Prison to Become a Chicago Violence Interrupter
In Deep: How I Survived Gangs, Heroin, and Prison to Become a Chicago Violence Interrupter 4.19 avg rating — 201 ratings
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What Next, Chicago?: Notes of a Pissed-Off Native Son
What Next, Chicago?: Notes of a Pissed-Off Native Son 4.50 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Back of the Yards: The Making of a Local Democracy
Back of the Yards: The Making of a Local Democracy 3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity
Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity 3.85 avg rating — 342 ratings
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Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher's First Year
Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher's First Year 3.91 avg rating — 6,537 ratings
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Urban Flow: Bike Messengers and the City
Urban Flow: Bike Messengers and the City 3.80 avg rating — 30 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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Becoming
Becoming 4.44 avg rating — 1,160,766 ratings
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Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration
Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration 3.57 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The Jungle
The Jungle 3.78 avg rating — 152,252 ratings
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Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago
Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago 3.62 avg rating — 276 ratings
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The Social Order of the Slum: Ethnicity and Territory in the Inner City
The Social Order of the Slum: Ethnicity and Territory in the Inner City 4.19 avg rating — 21 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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Neo-Bohemia
Neo-Bohemia 3.70 avg rating — 142 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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A Neighborhood That Never Changes: Gentrification, Social Preservation, and the Search for Authenticity
A Neighborhood That Never Changes: Gentrification, Social Preservation, and the Search for Authenticity 3.92 avg rating — 36 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 Spirit of Youth and City Streets (Illini Book)
The Spirit of Youth and City Streets (Illini Book) 3.72 avg rating — 53 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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The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America 4.24 avg rating — 781 ratings
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The Gold Coast and the Slum: A Sociological Study of Chicago's Near North Side (University of Chicago Sociological Series)
The Gold Coast and the Slum: A Sociological Study of Chicago's Near North Side (University of Chicago Sociological Series) 3.80 avg rating — 41 ratings
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In America's Court: How a Civil Lawyer Who Likes to Settle Stumbled into a Criminal Trial
In America's Court: How a Civil Lawyer Who Likes to Settle Stumbled into a Criminal Trial 3.67 avg rating — 24 ratings
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American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass 4.13 avg rating — 1,602 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