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Explores life in an inner city Chicago housing project discussing the residents' daily encounters with neighborhood violence, drugs, and gangs.

The story of an African-American woman growing up on the south side of Chicago during the turbulent 1960s as she tests the limits of racism.

A pioneering social worker relates her experiences and observations about the settlement house she founded.

Two young men raised in the Chicago ghetto tell what life is like for the residents of the city's housing projects, drawing from hours of interviews they conducted for two National Public Radio documentaries, and provide an on-site account of the death of Eric Morse, a little boy dropped out of a fourteenth-floor window.

Examines the life and times of Jane Addams who, in 1889, established in Hull House one of the first settlement houses in America and later became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Presents eyewitness accounts of the devastating effects of the 1871 Chicago fire and describes the subsequent rebuilding of the city.

A memoir of the author's last year as a kindergarten teacher during which she, and a little girl named Reeny, became immersed in the words and pictures of author Leo Lionni.

A brief biography of Michelle Obama that chronicles her childhood and heritage, education, marriage, and becoming First Lady of the United States.

Jane Addam's account of her settlement house in Chicago's West side slums covering the years 1889 to 1909.