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). 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
• 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
• 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)
• Wendt, Lloyd, Herman Kogan, and Bette Jore. Big Bill of Chicago. (2005) ISBN 0-8101-2319-3, mayor in 1920s
• Wendt, Lloyd, and Herman Kogan. Lords of the Levee. (1967), popular stories from early 20th century.

Business, labor and economic

• 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.

Environment

• Platt, Harold L. Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago. 2005. 628 pp.

High culture

• Hallwas, John E. ed., Illinois Literature: The Nineteenth Century (1986)
• 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.
• Waldheim, Charles and Ray, Katerina Rüedi, eds. Chicago Architecture: Histories, Revisions, Alternatives. 2005. 488 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Reed, Christopher Robert. Black Chicago's First Century. Vol. 1: 1833-1900. 2005. 582 pp.
• Wolcott, David B. Cops and Kids: Policing Juvenile Delinquency in Urban America, 1890-1940. 2005. 264 pp.

Reputation, Images

• Spears, Timothy B. Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and the City, 1871-1919. 2005. 322 pp.

Primary sources=

• Despres, Leon M. and Heise, Kenan. Challenging the Daley Machine: A Chicago Alderman's Memoir. 2005. 168 pp.
• Pierce, Bessie Louise. As Others See Chicago