chicago (ill.)

Provides a brief overview of the life of First Lady Michelle Obama, discussing her childhood, schooling, marriage to Barack Obama, and relationship with her daughters.

Describes what happened during the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, discussing its causes, the loss of life and property, and the disaster's aftermath.

Provides fictionalized anecdotes of the author's childhood as a ten-year old living in Chicago.

Presents a biography of the African American poet who has received the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

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

Playing the coronet is the first thing that twelve-year-old Paulie Horvath has taken seriously, but his obsession with becoming a jazz musician leads him into conflict with his parents and into the tough underworld of Chicago in the 1920s.

Four teenage girls from very different social cliques at their progressive Chicago high school become friends after forming a knitting club.

A graphic novel account of the life and grisly career of serial killer H.H. Holmes, particularly focusing on his life in Chicago, where he was responsible for an unknown number of deaths in the late nineteenth century.

Photographs and text, along with personal accounts of actual survivors tell the story of the great fire of 1871 in Chicago.

Describes the conditions of the Chicago stockyards through the eyes of a young immigrant struggling in America.