chicago (ill.)

Sixth-grade friends Petra and Calder are joined by Calder's friend Tommy in trying to save the Robie House, a Chicago landmark designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, from destruction.

In the 1920s, a ten-year-old newsgirl who aspires to be a reporter at the Chicago Tribune investigates the murder of a gangster.

In 1924 Chicago, eighteen-year-old Piper Sail attempts to solve the mystery of her best friend Lydia's disappearance and finds herself in danger as she uncovers corruption in her privileged neighborhood.

A three-act play concerned with the tensions in a middle-class African American family living on Chicago's Southside in the 1950s.

Larry, a dog, and Pete, his young owner, see many Chicago attractions as they search for each other after getting separated on the L station platform.

Thirteen-year-old Simon Fleming, the son of a civil rights activist minister, is sent to a predmoninantly African American high school where he's exposed to gang warfare, drug abuse, and violence, exposing an out-of-touch edcational system of the 1960s.

In 1859, eleven-year-old Nell goes to live with her aunt, Kate Warne, the first female detective for Pinkerton's National Detective Agency. Nell helps her aunt solve cases, including a mystery surrounding Abraham Lincoln, and the mystery of what happened to Nell's own father.

When two pigeons that Sarah wants as pets move from her Chicago apartment's window ledge to the building next door, Sarah tries to figure out how to get them to come back.

In 1871, a tragic fire destroyed a major section of Chicago, Illinois, killing nearly 300 people and leaving more than 100,000 homeless. These are the stories of those who experienced it.

Presents Upton Sinclair's classic 1906 novel about the conditions of the Chicago stockyards through the eyes of a young struggling immigrant, and includes a profile of the author, introduction, and textual notes.