chicago (ill.)

Describes what a visitor to Chicago in 1929 would find to see and do, including providing references to famous gangster activities and haunts.

Chronicles one year in a courtroom in Chicago's Cook County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country, recounting the stories of the lawyers, judges, and criminals who passed through the courtroom.

Presents a biography of Al Capone, tracing the life of the infamous prohibition-era criminal from his youth in New York to his death at the age of forty-eight from complications of syphilis, and including a look at corruption in American society, a time line, and a bibliography.

A young girl living in a Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago ponders the advantages and disadvantages of her environment and evaluates her relationships with family and friends.

Explores life in an American inner city through the lives of two boys.

A graphic novel adaptation of Upton Sinclair's novel in which a young Lithuanian immigrant, hoping to create a good life for himself and his family in the early 1900s, is discouraged by the shocking conditions he encounters as a worker in the Chicago stockyards.

Photographs and text, along with personal accounts of actual survivors tell the story of the great fire of 1871 in Chicago.