chicago (ill.)

Twelve-year-old Liam and his family must flee their home when a fire rages through Chicago in 1871. Includes notes on the Great Chicago Fire and suggests creative writing, scrapbook, and family history activities.

Biography of Chicago criminal Al Capone discussing his life, criminal activity, the complex personality of the man, and the Prohibition era.

A young person uses a travel journal and the skills of addition and subtraction to keep track of how much time his family spends at various attractions while visiting Chicago.

In the 1960s, Harold, a Chicago teenager with a special affection for Bushman, the departed gorilla of the Lincoln Park Zoo, embarks on a quest to become a great artist and figure out how he became the object of a famous folk song.

The author describes his privileged life in Havana before he was sent at the age of eleven to the U.S. in 1962, in the wake of the Cuban Revolution.

Chicago private investigator V. I. Warshawski plunges into the darkest and most emotionally shattering case of her career when she tries to unravel the mystery of a battered and discarded woman she finds lying in the street.

V.I. Warshawski, private investigator, uncovers a network of corruption when she goes back to her old neighborhood in Chicago.

In 1893, thirteen-year-old Rosie and members of her family travel from their Illinois farm to Chicago to visit Aunt Euterpe and attend the World's Columbian Exposition which, along with an encounter with Buffalo Bill and Lillian Russell, turns out to be a life-changing experience for everyone.

A young girl living in an Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago ponders the advantages and disadvantages of her environment and evaluates her relationships with family and friends.