chicago (ill.)

A $10,000 insurance benefit creates conflict within a Chicago ghetto family when the family matriarch wants to use the money to buy a home in a currently all-white neighborhood.

Presents a group portrait of the author's boyhood friends growing up in a dangerous Chicago housing project.

Examines the successful teaching strategies of educator and principal Marva Collins and offers advice on how to motivate children to reach their full potential.

An insurance check can allow the Youngers to escape their difficult life in a Chicago apartment, but their prospective white neighbors are not welcoming.

Brik, a young writer in Chicago, travels through Eastern Europe with his friend Rora, tracing the life of Lazarus Averbuch, a Jewish immigrant who lived in Chicago until he was shot and killed by George Skippy, the chief of police, when Lazarus had attempted to deliver the officer a letter.

Commander Larry Cole, a tough Chicago cop, thinks he has seen it all, until the drug bust outside the National Science and Space Museum goes wrong, and he learns that 188 people have disappeared from that museum over the years.

Chronicles the life of George "Bugs" Moran, the last of Chicago's North Side gang leaders, discussing his childhood in Minnesota, his early years as a horse thief, his rise and fall in Chicago's Prohibition-era underworld, his life as an outlaw in the 1930s and 1940s, and other related topics.

A history of crime in Chicago from its founding to the Prohibition era, looking at how the city earned its reputation as the hub of the underworld, and discussing some of its most notorious neighborhoods and criminals.

A history of Chicago from the Gilded Age through 1919, focusing on the netherworld as it existed in the city before Prohibition.

Presents a detailed account of the murder of fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks in Chicago in 1924, the arrest of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, their trial, and imprisonment.