Chicago, Illinois

Chicago is the dominant city of the American Midwest, and the third largest in population in the U.S., with xxx people. The Chicago Metropolitan Area (sometimes called "Chicagoland") has a population of xxx.

Architecture

High culture

Museums

On the Chicago Historical Society.

See also

• Chicago School of Economics
• Hull House
• Jane Addams

External links

• summary of 2000 census for city
• Kenneth M. Johnson, "Demographic Trends in the Chicago Metropolitan Area" (2006)

Bibliography

the best source to study all aspects of Chicago is James R. Grossman, Ann Durkin Keating, and Janice L. Reiff, eds.. The Encyclopedia of Chicago (University of Chicago Press, (2005) ISBN 0-226-31015-9; (online version)

Current

• Frommer's Chicago 2007 (2006) excerpt and text search

History

• The Encyclopedia of Chicago (2005) (online version), the place to start

Surveys

• Miller, Donald L. City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America (1997), popular epic; excerpt and text search
• Pierce, Bessie Louise. A History of Chicago, Volume I: The Beginning of a City 1673-1848 (1937; reprint 2007); Volume II: From Town to City 1848-1871 (reprint 2007); Volume III: The Rise of a Modern City, 1871-1893 (reprint 2007)
• Spinney, Robert G. City of Big Shoulders: A History of Chicago (2000), popular epic; excerpt and text search

Geography

• Bronsky, Eric, Neal Samors and Jennifer Samors. Downtown Chicago in Transition (2007) excerpt and text search
• Mayer, Harold M., and Richard C. Wade. Chicago: Growth of a Metropolis (1973)
• WPA. Illinois: A Descriptive and Historical Guide (1939)

Politics and Corruption

• Barnard, Harry. "Eagle Forgotten": The Life of John Peter Altgeld (1938)
• Cohen, Adam, and Elizabeth Taylor. American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation. (2001). 614pp ISBN 0-316-83489-0
• Green, Paul M. The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition. (1987). ISBN 0-8093-2612-4
• Hartley, Robert E. Big Jim Thompson of Illinois (1979), governor 1980s
• Hutchinson, William. Lowden of Illinois the Life of Frank O. Lowden 2 vol (1957) governor in 1917-21
• Littlewood, Thomas B. Horner of Illinois (1969), governor 1933-40
• Miller, Kristie. Ruth Hanna Mccormick: A Life in Politics, 1880-1944 (1992)
• Morton, Richard Allen. Justice and Humanity: Edward F. Dunne, Illinois Progressive (1997) governor 1913-17.
• Simpson, Dick. Rogues, Rebels, and Rubber Stamps: The Politics of the Chicago City Council from 1863 to the Present (2001) 356pp
• Wendt, Lloyd, Herman Kogan, and Bette Jore. Big Bill of Chicago. (2005) ISBN 0-8101-2319-3, mayor in 1920s

Crime, courts and disaster

• Bales, Richard F. The Great Chicago Fire and the Myth of Mrs. O'Leary's Cow. (2002). 338 pp.
• Bonansinga, Jay. The Sinking of the Eastland: America's Forgotten Tragedy. (2004). 280 pp.
• Brandt, Nat. Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903. (2003). 180 pp.
• Bruno, Robert. Reforming the Chicago Teamsters: The Story of Local 705. (2003). 203 pp.
• Cahan, Richard. A Court that Shaped America: Chicago's Federal District Court from Abe Lincoln to Abbie Hoffman. (2002). 273 pp.
• Cohen, Andrew Wender. The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900-1940. (2004). 333 pp.
• Lindberg, Richard Carl. To Serve and Collect: Chicago Politics and Police Corruption from the Lager Beer Riot to the Summerdale Scandal: 1855-1960. 1991. ISBN 0-275-93415-2
• Merriner, James L. Grafters and Goo Goos: Corruption and Reform in Chicago, 1833-(2003). (2004). 302 pp.
• Wendt, Lloyd, and Herman Kogan. Lords of the Levee. (1967), popular stories from early 20th century.
• Willrich, Michael. City of Courts: Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago. (2003). 332 pp.
• Wolcott, David B. Cops and Kids: Policing Juvenile Delinquency in Urban America, 1890-1940. (2005). 264 pp.

Business, labor and economic

• Bae, Youngsoo. Labor in Retreat: Class and Community among Men's Clothing Workers of Chicago, 1871-1929. (2001). 295 pp.
• Cronon, William.
• Franch, John. Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes. (2006). 374 pp.
• Garb, Margaret. City of American Dreams: A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919. (2005). 261 pp.
• Green, James. Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America. (2006). 383 pp.
• Hutchinson, William. Lowden of Illinois the Life of Frank O. Lowden 2 vol (1957) governor in 1917-21
• Kinsley, Philip. The Chicago Tribune: Its First Hundred Years (1943)
• Sears
• Young, David M. The Iron Horse and the Windy City: How Railroads Shaped Chicago. (2005). 270 pp.
• Young, David M. Chicago Aviation: An Illustrated History. (2003). 254 pp.

Environment

• Pellow, David Naguib. Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago. (2002). 234 pp.
• Platt, Harold L. Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago. (2005). 628 pp.

High culture, architecture

• Bolotin, Norman and Laing, Christine. The World's Columbian Exposition: The Chicago World's Fair of 1893. (1992). 166 pp.
• Christiansen, Richard. A Theater of Our Own: A History and a Memoir of 1,001 Nights in Chicago. (2004). 317 pp.
• Gray, Mary Lackritz. A Guide to Chicago's Murals. (2001). 488 pp.
• Greenhouse, Wendy and Weininger, Susan. Chicago Painting 1895-1945: The Bridges Collection. (2004). 251 pp.
• Hallwas, John E. ed., Illinois Literature: The Nineteenth Century (1986)
• Harris, Neil. Chicago Apartments: A Century of Lakefront Luxury. (2004). 352 pp.
• Longstreth, Richard, ed. The Charnley House: Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the Making of Chicago's Gold Coast. (2004). 249 pp.
• Lowe, David Garrard. Lost Chicago (2000), architectural landmarks that were torn down. excerpt and text search
• Moudry, Roberta, ed. The American Skyscraper: Cultural Histories. (2005). 281 pp.
• Saum, Lewis O. Eugene Field and His Age. (2001). 324 pp.
• Schaffer, Kristen. Daniel H. Burnham: Visionary Architect and Planner. (2003). 223 pp.
• Siry, Joseph M. The Chicago Auditorium Building: Adler and Sullivan's Architecture and the City. (2002). 550 pp.
• Waldheim, Charles and Ray, Katerina Rüedi, eds. Chicago Architecture: Histories, Revisions, Alternatives. (2005). 488 pp.

Regional and suburbia

• Cronon, William.
• Quaife, Milo Milton. Chicago and the Old Northwest, 1673-1835. (1913, reprint (2001). 480 pp.
• Randall, Gregory C. America's Original G.I. Town: Park Forest, Illinois. 2000. 236 pp.

Social, religious, racial and ethnic

• Adler, Jeffrey S. First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt: Homicide in Chicago, 1875-1920. (2006). 357 pp.
• Best, Wallace D. Passionately Human, No Less Divine: Religion and Culture in Black Chicago, 1915-1952. (2005). 251 pp.
• Black, Timuel D., Jr. Bridges of Memory: Chicago's First Wave of Black Migration. (2003). 600 pp.
• Blakely, Robert J. Earl B. Dickerson: A Voice for Freedom and Equality. (2006). 270 pp.
• DeGenova, Nicholas. Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and "Illegality" in Mexican Chicago. (2005). 329 pp.
• Fuerst, J. S. and Hunt, D. Bradford, eds. When Public Housing Was Paradise: Building Community in Chicago. (2003) 228 pp.
• Guglielmo, Thomas A. White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945. (2003). 296 pp.
• Harden, Jacalyn D. Double Cross: Japanese Americans in Black and White Chicago. (2003). 232 pp.
• Hoy, Suellen. Good Hearts: Catholic Sisters in Chicago's Past. (2006). 242 pp.
• Knupfer, Anne Meis. The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism. (2006). 244 pp.
• Pacyga, Dominic A. Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago: Workers on the South Side, 1880-1920. (1991). 322 pp.
• Rangaswamy, Padma. Namasté America: Indian Immigrants in an American Metropolis. 2000. 366 pp.
• Reed, Christopher Robert. Black Chicago's First Century. Vol. 1: 1833-1900. (2005). 582 pp.
• Strickland, Arvarh E. History of the Chicago Urban League. (1966, 2nd ed. (2001). 286 pp.
• Swierenga, Robert P. Dutch Chicago: A History of the Hollanders in the Windy City. (2002). 825 pp.

Sports, entertainment, music

• Sengstock, Charles A., Jr. That Toddlin' Town: Chicago's White Dance Bands and Orchestras, 1900-1950. (2004). 244 pp.
• Spirou, Costas and Bennett, Larry. It's Hardly Sportin': Stadiums, Neighborhoods, and the New Chicago. (2003). 212 pp.
• Vaillant, Derek. Sounds of Reform: Progressivism & Music in Chicago, 1873-1935. (2003). 401 pp.

Reputation, images, visions

• Flanagan, Maureen A. Seeing with Their Hearts: Chicago Women and the Vision of the Good City, 1871-1933. (2002). 319 pp.
• Spears, Timothy B. Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and the City, 1871-1919. (2005). 322 pp.

Primary sources

• Byrne, Jane. My Chicago. (1992), mayor in 1980s
• Despres, Leon M. and Heise, Kenan. Challenging the Daley Machine: A Chicago Alderman's Memoir. (2005). 168 pp.
• Pierce, Bessue Louise, ed. Title: As Others See Chicago: Impressions of Visitors, 1673-1933. (1937, reprinted (2004). 548 pp
• Royko, Mike. For the Love of Mike: More of the Best of Mike Royko. (2001). 270 pp.