Books about chicago

This is the story of the men and women whose lives were irrevocably changed by the Chicago World Fair, and of two men in particular: an architect and a serial killer. Spicing the narrative are the stories of a cast of historical characters including Buffalo Bill, Scott Joplin and Theodore Dreiser.

This extraordinary, magical novel is the story of Clare and Henry who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty.

Upton Sinclair's story exposed the conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into focus the odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled. This book was championed by the then president Theodore Roosevelt, and was a catalyst to the passing of the Pure Food and Meat Inspection act.

A novel by the author of Caramelo .

The fourth case file from Harry Dresden, a modern-day wizard who gets into some seriously challenging situations.

This is the fictional autobiography of an adventurer and poker-player who sets off from his native Chicago in the spirit of a latter-day Columbus to rediscover the world, and more especially, 20th-century America.

The second case file from Harry Dresden, a modern-day wizard and private investigator who gets into some seriously challenging situations.

The sixth case file from Harry Dresden, a modern-day wizard who gets into some seriously challenging situations.

The first case file from Harry Dresden, a modern-day wizard and P.I.

The fifth case file from Harry Dresden, a modern-day wizard who gets into some seriously challenging situations.

The seventh case file from Harry Dresden, a modern-day wizard who gets into some seriously challenging situations.

The third case file from Harry Dresden, a modern-day wizard who gets into some seriously challenging situations.

The eighth case file from Harry Dresden, a modern-day wizard who gets into some seriously challenging situations.

Dreiser's first novel, intertwining the story of a young woman seduced by the lure of the modern city with the story of a middle-aged man seduced by desire for Carrie herself, established a style and a realism which influenced many later writers.

A quarter-century after his death, journalists Cohen and Taylor present a biography of Mayor Richard J. Daley and his unrivalled 20-year reign of power in Chicago. It is the story of his rise from his working-class Irish neighbourhood to become one the most important figures in American politics.

Follows Bigger Thomas, a young black man who is trapped in a life of poverty in the slums of Chicago. Unwittingly involved in a wealthy woman's death, he is hunted relentlessly, baited by prejudiced officials, charged with murder and driven to acknowledge a strange pride in his crime.