chicago (ill.)

Seventeen-year-old socialite Gloria secretly longs to be a flapper, but now that she is engaged to Sebastian, she must leave her partying days behind, until her future is threatened by an alluring jazz musician who encourages Gloria to risk everything.

The rape and murder of a young girl from Maizy and Fred's working-class neighborhood in 1930s Chicago draws them together with Zane, a preacher's son from a better part of town, as they all navigate the trials of adolescence.

Re-creates the events surrounding the 1886 bombing of a Chicago labor rally and the controversial trial and eventual execution of four men accused of the crime.

A graphic novel about an adolescent boy in 1930s Chicago whose curiosity about his father's work--enforcement for the Irish crime syndicate--leads to tragedy and a quest for revenge and redemption.

Presents the abridged 1940 version of Richard Wright's novel in which a young African-American man trapped in the poverty-stricken ghetto of Chicago's South Side accidentally kills a rich white girl and finds himself on a path to self-destruction.

A concise biography of Michelle Obama that describes her childhood in Chicago, Princeton and Harvard education, family, and role as first lady of the United States.

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.