My Chicago

Jane Byrne

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Lives
• By the end of her first meeting with the late mayor Richard J. Daley, Jane Byrne had been questioned, berated, and told she might, one day, reach the ... Lees meer

Bridges of Memory

Timuel D Black

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Lives
• Winner of 2006 Jewish Council on Urban Affairs Courageous Voices Award In the second volume of Bridges of Memory , historian Timuel D. Black Jr. conti... Lees meer

Long Way Home

Laura Caldwell

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Lives
• By all accounts, Jovan Mosley was a good kid. He was working on a way out of his tough Chicago neighborhood and had been accepted at Ohio State Univer... Lees meer

Challenging the Daley Machine

Leon M Despres

• Hardcover | Engels | Chicago Lives
• Winner, 2006 Illinois State Historical Society Book Award Winner, 2007 The Hyde Park Historical Society Paul Cornell Award Political war stories from ... Lees meer

Ghosts of Chicago

John McNally

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Lives
• Chicago is famously a city of neighborhoods that somehow balances metropolitan and parochial life. In the seventeen vividly rendered stories in Ghosts... Lees meer

Harold!

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Lives
• This handsome book captures in words and pictures the powerful emotions that circled around one man in Chicago in the early 1980's: Harold Washington.... Lees meer

Bridges of Memory

Timuel D Black

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Lives
• Co-published with the DuSable Museum of African American History Recipient of 2007 The Hyde Park Historical Society Paul Cornell Award A collection of... Lees meer

Dawn Clark Netsch

Cynthia Grant Bowman

• Hardcover | Engels | Chicago Lives
• Illinois Democratic politics has recently produced the most skilled and inspirational politician in memory . . . and has also reminded us of the need ... Lees meer

Sidewalks

Rick Kogan

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Lives
• "A wonderful book that tells you the basic truths of our city." --Studs Terkel Few people know Chicago as do Rick Kogan and Charles Osgood, and their ... Lees meer

Knocking Down Barriers

Truman K Gibson Jr, Steve Huntley

• Hardcover | Engels | Chicago Lives
• Winner, 2006 Illinois State Historical Society Book Award Certificate of Excellence Recipient, 2007 Hyde Park Historical Society Paul Cornell Award Si... Lees meer

Sidewalks

Rick Kogan

• Hardcover | Engels | Chicago Lives
• "A wonderful book that tells you the basic truths of our city." --Studs Terkel Few people know Chicago as do Rick Kogan and Charles Osgood, and their ... Lees meer

Hog Butcher

Ronald L Fair

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Lives
• It's summer on the South Side of Chicago, and ten-year-old boys Earl and Wilford are frequently courtside watching their role model Nathaniel "Cornbre... Lees meer

Earl B. Dickerson

Robert J Blakely

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Lives
• Recipient of 2007 The Hyde Park Historical Society Paul Cornell Award At fifteen, Earl Burrus Dickerson stowed away on a train in Canton, Mississippi,... Lees meer

Chicago Portraits

June Skinner Sawyers

• Paperback | Engels | Chicago Lives
• The famous, the infamous, and the unjustly forgotten--all receive their due in this biographical dictionary of the people who have made Chicago one of... Lees meer

Bridges of Memory

Timuel D Black

• Hardcover | Engels | Chicago Lives
• Winner of 2006 Jewish Council on Urban Affairs Courageous Voices Award In the second volume of Bridges of Memory , historian Timuel D. Black Jr. conti... Lees meer