Explores how artists uses faces, places, and inner spaces to express themselves, studying a wide range of artistic works with subjects falling into one of the three categories.
The author details the start of Barack Obama's career in Chicago through his eventual victory for Senator, exploring the city's south side history, the key players in Obama's path to the U.S. Senate, and Chicago's political style.
A brief biography, in graphic novel format, of Robert "Yummy" Sandifer, an eleven-year old African American gang member from Chicago who went on the run after shooting a young girl and was later found dead, shot by members of his own gang.
In 1941 Chicago, fifteen-year-old Ruby, a Polish-American girl from the slums, leaves her meat-packing plant job to be a "taxi" dancer, paid a dime apiece to dance with men in a dance hall, and becomes entangled with the mob.
the secret plot that captured America's most wanted gangster
Eig, Jonathan
2010
Traces the efforts by federal and local law enforcement agencies to bring down Chicago crime boss Al Capone during the 1920s, which led to his arrest and conviction in 1931 for tax evasion and conspiracy to violate Prohibition laws.
race, real estate, and the exploitation of Black urban America
Satter, Beryl
2009
Argues that legal and financial exploitation has led to the ruin of African-American urban neighborhoods throughout the country and offers examples of instances that support the theory.
Relates the experiences of eight high school students in Chicago, Illinois, including a soccer playing honor roll student, an overachieving class president, a Muslim, and others.
Discusses the labor strike against the Pullman Palace Car Company in Pullman, Illinois, in 1894, and the federal government's use of force to keep the railroads operating and to control the striking workers.
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.
