Locality/Chicago
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The Chicago L
$26.99 Read moreDiscover the world-famous Chicago L – in all its grit and glory.
The thundering L is one of Chicago’s most enduring icons. Operating 247 since 1892, it is not only an antique but a working antique. Mor
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Borzo, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 30 2007
- ISBN10: 0738551007
- Language: English
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Remembering Christmas in Chicago
$19.99 Add to cartIn Chicago, wherever Christmas is celebrated, holiday traditions reflect both universal themes and local color, both the spirit of giving and snow-covered State Street. In 1913, Chicago decorated its
- Series: Remembering
- Author: Adams, Rosemary K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 1684422418
- Language: English
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Oak Park:: The Evolution of a Village
$24.99 Read moreJourney to the past with historian David M. Sokol as he reveals the city that nurtured and inspired the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Ray Kroc and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Though it is a handsome village, with
- Series: Brief History
- Author: Sokol, David M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 27, 2011
- ISBN10: 1609490703
- Language: English
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Marshall Field’s: The Store That Helped Build Chicago
$23.99 Add to cartAnyone who has waited in a Christmas line for the Walnut Room’s Great Tree can attest that Chicago’s loyalty to Marshall Field’s is fierce.
Dayton-Hudson even had to take out advertising around town to
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Soucek, Gayle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 10 2010
- ISBN10: 1596298545
- Language: English
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One Day It’ll All Make Sense
$16.99 Add to cartFrom the hip hop icon, Hollywood star, and “a true artist and writer of deep talent” (James McBride, author of The Color of Water)–a candid, New York Times bestselling memoir ranging from his childho… [more below]
- Author: Common
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 18 2012
- ISBN10: 145162588X
- Language: English
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Iconic Chicago Dishes, Drinks and Desserts
$23.99 Add to cartThe food that fuels hardworking Chicagoans needs to be hearty, portable and inexpensive. Featuring select stories and recipes, author Amy Bizzarri surveys the delectable landscape of Chicago’s homegro
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Bizzarri, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1467135518
- Language: English
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Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect
$29.00 Add to cartFor over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regard… [more below]
- Author: Sampson, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: June 14 2013
- ISBN10: 022605568X
- Language: English
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Once Anillos/ Eleven Rings
$12.95 Read moreDurante su exitosa carrera como entrenador de los Chicago Bulls y Los Angeles Lakers, Phil Jackson conquistó más campeonatos que ningún otro entrenador en la historia profesional del deporte.
Jackso… [more below]- Author: Jackson, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 30 2016
- ISBN10: 8416240574
- Language: Spanish
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Walking Chicago: 35 Tours of the Windy City’s Dynamic Neighborhoods and Famous Lakeshore
$16.95 Add to cartFeaturing 35 self-guided walking tours, Walking Chicago leads readers through some of the city’s most interesting, scenic, and historic places.
- Series: Walking
- Author: Loerzel, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0899976972
- Language: English
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There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)
$19.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A moving and powerful account by an acclaimed journalist that “informs the heart. [This] meticulous portrait of two boys in a Chicago housing project shows how much heroism is re… [more below]
- Author: Kotlowitz, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0385265565
- Language: English
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Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
$22.00 Add to cart“A classic. I can’t recommend it enough.”–Chris Hayes
On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measure- Author: Klinenberg, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 06 2015
- ISBN10: 022627618X
- Language: English
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Weird Chicago
$20.00 Add to cartThe city of Chicago is unquestionably the weirdest and most haunted city in America With a history dating back to the early 1800s that is filled with violent events, mysterious happenings and a lot o… [more below]
- Series: Haunted Illinois
- Author: Taylor, Troy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: July 22 2008
- ISBN10: 1892523590
- Language: English
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The Jungle
$7.99 Read moreEnriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students an… [more below]
- Series: Enriched Classics
- Author: Sinclair, Upton
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 458
- Publish Date: May 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0743487621
- Language: English
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Match Me If You Can
$8.99 Add to cartYou met star quarterback Kevin Tucker in This Heart of Mine. Now get ready to meet his shark of an agent, Heath Champion, and Annabelle Granger, the girl least likely to succeed.
Annabelle’s endured de
- Series: Chicago Stars #6
- Author: Phillips, Susan Elizabeth
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 29 2006
- ISBN10: 0060734566
- Language: English
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The Middlesteins
$21.99 Add to cartFor more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life together in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are splintering apart, for one reason, it seems: Edie’s enormous … [more below]
- Author: Attenberg, Jami
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 04 2013
- ISBN10: 1455507202
- Language: English
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Caramelo (Spanish Edition)
$19.95 Add to cartLa c lebre autora de La casa en Mango Street, y ganadora del PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature 2019, nos ofrece una nueva y extraordinaria novela narrada en un lenguaje de
- Author: Cisneros, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 09 2003
- ISBN10: 1400030994
- Language: Spanish
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Then We Came to the End
$17.99 Add to cartWinner of the Hemingway Foundation / PEN Award, this debut novel is “as funny as The Office, as sad as an abandoned stapler . . . that rare comedy that feels blisteringly urgent.” (TIME)
No one knows- Author: Ferris, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 26 2008
- ISBN10: 031601639X
- Language: English
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The Litigators
$35.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER – After leaving a fast-track legal career and going on a serious bender, David Zinc is sober, unemployed, and desperate enough to take a job at Finley & Figg, a self-desc… [more below]
- Author: Grisham, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0385535139
- Language: English
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The Coast of Chicago
$19.00 Add to cartThe stolid landscape of Chicago suddenly turns dreamlike and otherworldly in Stuart Dybek’s classic story collection. A child’s collection of bottle caps becomes the tombstones of a graveyard. A lowly
- Author: Dybek, Stuart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 173
- Publish Date: April 03 2004
- ISBN10: 0312424256
- Language: English
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Bronzeville Boys and Girls
$16.99 Read moreThis classic picture book from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks, paired with full-color illustrations by Caldecott Honor artist Faith Ringgold, explores the lives and dreams of the childre
- Author: Brooks, Gwendolyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: December 26, 2006
- ISBN10: 0060295058
- Language: English
