chicago (ill.)

Seventeen-year-old aspiring artist Samantha Henderson, eager to learn about life and to get away from her father's political campaigns and her stepmother, refuses to give up on her new boyfriend, "X," even after he proves to be trouble, damaging her friendships and introducing her to drugs.

While spreading flames threaten to cut off all possibility of escape from the Chicago fire of 1871, twelve-year-old Nate attempts to save a wealthy young girl and to return home safely.

Best friends for eleven years, Holly, Savitri, and Holly's twin, Corey, are a unit, freerunning through Chicago as if they were superheroes until a random act of violence takes Corey's life and, as they tell in their separate voices, Holly seeks the murderer and revenge while Sav feels left behind. Incorporates sections of comic-style art.

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.

When famous pop singer Molly Metropolis disappears, a journalist and Molly's personal assistant join together to find her, following clues the singer left behind in her journals and songs.

Looks at the rivalry between gangster Al Capone and FBI agent Eliot Ness.

Harry Dresden, after being murdered and navigating his way throughout the realm between life and death only to be brought back to the mortal world, is now a Winter Knight to Mab, the Queen of Air and Darkness, and is commanded by her to kill an immortal, and while beset by enemies new and old, Harry gathers his friends and allies to prevent the annihilation of countless innocents.

When thirteen valuable pieces of art are stolen from a Chicago museum, five thirteen-year-olds must find them. But are the adults who hired them hiding something?.

Chronicles the events surrounding the deadliest heatwave in American history, which occured in Chicago in July of 1995, discussing why it was so deadly and how the city could have been better prepared to handle it.