chicago (ill.)

Albert Corde, newspaperman turned academic, accompanies his wife to visit her dying mother in Bucharest. At home in Chicago, his magazine articles and involvement in a student murder scandal have him in the middle of a raging controversy.

Presents a short biography of African-American poet Gwendolyn Brooks, and looks at her works which reflect racism and urban poverty.

A young woman leaves her hometown to study music in Chicago, falls in love with a middle-aged singer, knows a brief moment of contentment, and then feels the pain of a separation that is final.

When a car accident kills her best friend Jimmy, with whom she has shared everything from childhood escapades to entering the professional theater in Chicago, seventeen-year-old Morgan must find her own way to cope with his death.

McCormack Malloy, a fiftyish ex-cop and partner at Gage & Griswell, is sent to find a missing lawyer and the 5.6 million dollars that disappeared from a company fund.

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

Chicago police sergeant Abe Liebermann is stunned early one morning to hear some of the worst news possible. His brother's son, David, has been murdered in a robbery the night before and David's pregnant wife, Carol, has been seriously wounded.

Describes the history, people, and places of the nation's third largest city.

Mr. Pin, the rock hopper penguin detective in Chicago, investigates two cases involving gargoyles and baseball.