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Addie, a twelve-year-old Jewish girl in 1886 Chicago, struggles to keep her family together at the time of the Haymarket affair, as laborers protest for better working conditions.

"NPR's Scott Simon's personal, heartfelt reflections on his beloved Chicago Cubs, replete with club lore, memorable anecdotes, frenetic fandom and wise and adoring intimacy that have made the world champion Cubbies baseball's most tortured--and now triumphant--franchise."--Provided by publisher.

As the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama has worked to better the lives of people in America and in countries around the world. However, her inspirational story began much earlier than that, as she worked hard to graduate from Harvard Law School and become a prominent lawyer. Readers can learn a lot from Obama’s life story, which they explore through engaging main text, fact-filled sidebars, and photographs of Obama interacting with others. Direct quotes from Obama are presented in an eye-catching way, and a detailed timeline of her life summarizes her most important milestones for readers.

Text and photographs from the "Daily Herald" look at the Chicago Cubs' 2016 championship season.

"A story of a family of wild birds that moves into a cramped urban home and decides to settle in among towers filled with people and noise. The birds' new human neighbors are quick to try and evict, but it turns out that the falcons have rights too and the law is on their side."--Provided by publisher.

"On Sunday, October 8, 1871, a fire started on the south side of Chicago. A long drought made the neighborhood go up in flames. And practically everything that could go wrong did. Firemen first went to the wrong location. Fierce winds helped the blaze jump the Chicago River twice. The Chicago Waterworks burned down, making it impossible to fight the fire. Finally after two days, Mother Nature took over, with rain smothering the flames. This overview of a stupendous disaster not only covers the fire but explores the whole history of fire fighting"--Provided by publisher.

Third-grader Anna has had trouble making friends since her family moved from a small town in New York to Chicago, but a group project at school leads to new opportunities, including friendships, a club, and a garden she can work in, just like in her last home.

Discusses the surge of murders by women in Chicago in 1924, highlighting the killers who inspired the play "Chicago" and its subsequent movie and musical adaptations, and introduces girl reporter Maurine Watkins who became embroiled in the cases and dedicated herself to exposing the tendency of the all-male juries to go easy on women--especially the pretty ones.

The infamous 1920's St. Valentine's Day Massacre involved a fight between gangsters. In the complicated underworld of Al Capone's Chicago, Jack McGurn is really Vincent Gebardi, a coldly efficient killer. Louise May Rolfe is his wife. As Jack/Vincent was being hunted as the perpetrator of the killings on St. Valentine's Day, his life was examined in minute detail by the press, and the couple's excesses and extremes define the Prohibition era in America.