Bibliography of Chicago history

Surveys

• Reiff, Janice L. Ann Durkin Keating and James R. Grossman, eds. The Encyclopedia of Chicago thorough coverage by scholars in 1120pp
• Abu-Lughod, Janet L. New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities, Compares the three cities in terms of geography, economics and race from 1800 to 1990
• Andreas, A. T. History of Chicago. From the earliest period to the present time ; ;
• Gustaitis, Joseph. Chicago's Greatest Year, 1893: The White City and the Birth of a Modern Metropolis
• Gustaitis, Joseph. Chicago Transformed: World War I and the Windy City.
• Longstreet, Stephen. Chicago: An Intimate Portrait of People, Pleasures, and Power, 1860-1919.. 547 pp. popular
• Miller, Donald L. City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America, popular epic;
• Pacyga, Dominic A. Chicago: A Biography, 472pp; detailed history by a scholar, based on secondary sources.
• Pierce, Bessie Louise. A History of Chicago, Volume I: The Beginning of a City 1673-1848 ; Volume III: The Rise of a Modern City, 1871-1893 , 250 short biographies
• Spinney, Robert G. City of Big Shoulders: A History of Chicago, popular epic;

  Geography, region, housing

• Bachin, Robin F., Building the South Side: Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, 1890-1919.. 434 pp.
• Barrett, Paul. The Automobile and Urban Transit: The Formation of Public Policy in Chicago, 1900-1930.. 295 pp.
• Betancur, John J. "The Settlement Experience of Latinos in Chicago: Segregation, Speculation, and the Ecology Model." Social Forces 1996 74: 1299-1324. ISSN 0037-7732 Fulltext:
• Bigott, Joseph C. From Cottage to Bungalow: Houses and the Working Classes in Metropolitan Chicago, 1869-1929
• Bronsky, Eric, Neal Samors and Jennifer Samors. Downtown Chicago in Transition
• Cronon, William. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West.. 530 pp.
• Garb, Margaret. City of American Dreams: A History of Home Ownership and Housing Reform in Chicago, 1871-1919.. 261 pp.
• Keating, Ann Durkin. Building Chicago: Suburban Developers and the Creation of a Divided Metropolis.. 230 pp.
• Keating, Ann Durkin. "Chicagoland: More than the Sum of its Parts." Journal of Urban History 2004 30: 213-230. ISSN 0096-1442 Fulltext: Ebsco
• Mayer, Harold M., and Richard C. Wade. Chicago: Growth of a Metropolis 510pp
• Pacyga, Dominic A. and Skerrett, Ellen. Chicago: City of Neighborhoods. Histories and Tours.. 582 pp.
• Randall, Gregory C. America's Original G.I. Town: Park Forest, Illinois. 2000. 236 pp.
• Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi. American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto,, 360pp, on Robert Taylor Homes, a high rise public housing project with a negative reputation
• WPA. Illinois: A Descriptive and Historical Guide

  Pre-1871

• Fehrenbacher, Don E. Chicago Giant: A Biography of "Long John" Wentworth.. 278 pp.
• Karamanski, Theodore J. Rally 'Round the Flag: Chicago and the Civil War.. 292 pp.
• Pierce, Bessie Louise. A History of Chicago, Volume I: The Beginning of a City 1673-1848 ; Volume II: From Town to City 1848-1871
• Quaife, Milo Milton. Chicago and the Old Northwest, 1673-1835.. 480 pp.

• Politics

• Allswang, John. A House For All Peoples: Ethnic Politics In Chicago, 1890-1936.. 213 pp.
• Barnard, Harry. "Eagle Forgotten": The Life of John Peter Altgeld
• Beito, David T. Taxpayers in Revolt: Tax Resistance during the Great Depression.. 216 pp.
• Biles, Roger. Richard J. Daley: Politics, Race, and the Governing of Chicago.. 292 pp.
• Biles, Roger. Big City Boss in Depression and War: Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chicago.. 219 pp.
• Bukowski, Douglas. Big Bill Thompson, Chicago, and the Politics of Image.. 273 pp.
• Cohen, Adam, and Elizabeth Taylor. American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation.. 614pp
• Flanagan, Maureen A. Charter Reform in Chicago.. 207 pp.
• Fuchs, Ester R. Mayors and Money: Fiscal Policy in New York and Chicago.. 361 pp.
• Gottfried, Alex. Boss Cermak of Chicago: A study of political leadership
• Green, Paul M. and Holli, Melvin G., eds. The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition
• Green, Paul M. and Holli, Melvin G., eds. Restoration 1989: Chicago Elects a New Daley.. 212 pp.
• Gosnell, Harold F. Machine Politics: Chicago Model, classic statistical study
• Guterbock, Thomas M. Machine Politics in Transition: Party and Community in Chicago.. 324 pp.
• Hartley, Robert E. Big Jim Thompson of Illinois, governor 1980s
• Helgeson, Jeffrey. Crucibles of Black Empowerment: Chicago's Neighborhood Politics from the New Deal to Harold Washington
• Hogan, David John. Class and Reform: School and Society in Chicago, 1880-1930.. 328 pp.
• Jentz, John B. and Richard Schneirov. Chicago in the Age of Capital covers politics 1860 to 1880 ; 330pp
• Kantowicz, Edward R. Polish-American Politics in Chicago, 1888-1940.. 260 pp.
• Kleppner, Paul. Chicago Divided: The Making of a Black Mayor.. 313 pp.
• Littlewood, Thomas B. Horner of Illinois, governor 1933-40
• Lydersen, Karl. Mayor 1%: Rahm Emanuel and the Rise of Chicago's 99%
• Materson, Lisa G. For the Freedom of Her Race: Black Women and Electoral Politics in Illinois, 1877-1932
• Merriner, James L. Grafters and Goo Goos: Corruption and Reform in Chicago
• Merriam, Charles Edward. Chicago: A More Intimate View of Urban Politics
• Miller, Kristie. Ruth Hanna Mccormick: A Life in Politics, 1880-1944
• Miranda, Rowan A. "Post-Machine Regimes and the Growth of Government A Fiscal History of the City of Chicago, 1970-1990." Urban Affairs Review 28#3 pp: 397-422.
• Morton, Richard Allen. Justice and Humanity: Edward F. Dunne, Illinois Progressive, 174pp Democrfatic mayor 1905-7 and governor 1913-17.
• Peterson, Paul E. The Politics of School Reform, 1870-1940.. 241 pp.
• Pinderhughes, Dianne M. Race and Ethnicity in Chicago Politics: A Reexamination of Pluralist Theory.. 318 pp.
• Rakove, Milton. Don't Make No Waves...Don't Back No Losers: An Insiders' Analysis of the Daley Machine. 426 pp.
• Schmidt, John R. "The Mayor Who Cleaned Up Chicago": A Political Biography of William E. Dever.. 239 pp.
• Schneirov, Richard. Labor and Urban Politics: Class Conflict and the Origins of Modern Liberalism in Chicago, 1864-97.. 390 pp.
• Simpson, Dick. Rogues, Rebels, and Rubber Stamps: The Politics of the Chicago City Council from 1863 to the Present 356pp
• Smith, Joan K. Ella Flagg Young: Portrait of a Leader.. 272 pp.
• Tarr, Joel Arthur. A Study in Boss Politics: William Lorimer of Chicago.. 376 pp.
• Wendt, Lloyd, Herman Kogan, and Bette Jore. Big Bill of Chicago. , popular vio of mayor in 1920s

  Crime, law and disaster

• Adler, Jeffrey S. First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt: Homicide in Chicago, 1875-1920.. 357 pp.
• Adler, Jeffrey S. "'We've Got a Right to Fight; We're Married': Domestic Homicide in Chicago, 1875-1920." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2003 34: 27-48. ISSN 0022-1953 Fulltext: Project Muse
• Avrich, Paul. The Haymarket Tragedy
• Bales, Richard F. The Great Chicago Fire and the Myth of Mrs. O'Leary's Cow.. 338 pp.
• Brandt, Nat. Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903.. 180 pp.
• Bruno, Robert. Reforming the Chicago Teamsters: The Story of Local 705.. 203 pp.
• Cahan, Richard. A Court that Shaped America: Chicago's Federal District Court from Abe Lincoln to Abbie Hoffman.. 273 pp.
• Chicago Commission on Race Relations. The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot - 672 pages;
• Cohen, Andrew Wender. The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900-1940.. 333 pp.
• Cooley, Will, "'Stones Run It': Taking Back Control of Organized Crime in Chicago, 1940–1975," Journal of Urban History, 37, 933–51
• Getis, Victoria. The Juvenile Court and the Progressives.. 216 pp.
• Farber, David. Chicago '68.. 304 pp.
• Heinz, John P. and Laumann, Edward O. Chicago Lawyers: The Social Structure of the Bar.. 496 pp.
• Higdon, Hal. Leopold and Loeb: The Crime of the Century.. 380 pp.
• Hilton, George W. Eastland: Legacy of the Titanic.. 364 pp. The cruise ship capsized at its pier on a calm day in 1915, killing over 800 passengers. It was top heavy because of new federal laws requiring lifeboats.
• Hoffman, Dennis E. Scarface Al and the Crime Crusaders: Chicago's Private War against Capone.. 192 pp.
• Krist, Gary. City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster that Gave Birth to Modern Chicago.. 347 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.
• Merriner, James L. Grafters and Goo Goos: Corruption and Reform in Chicago, 1833-.. 302 pp.
• Miller, Ross. The Great Chicago Fire ; 1st ed was American Apocalypse: The Great Chicago Fire and the Myth of Chicago 287 pp.
• Mumford, Kevin J. Interzones: Black/White Sex Districts in Chicago and New York in the Early Twentieth Century.. 238 pp.
• Sawislak, Karen. Smoldering City: Chicagoans and the Great Fire, 1871-1874.. 408 pp.
• Tuttle, William M., Jr. Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919.. 305 pp.
• Wendt, Lloyd, and Herman Kogan. Lords of the Levee., popular stories from early 20th century.
• Willrich, Michael. City of Courts: Socializing Justice in Progressive Era Chicago.. 332 pp.
• Wolcott, David B. Cops and Kids: Policing Juvenile Delinquency in Urban America, 1890-1940.. 264 pp.

  Labor

• Bae, Youngsoo. Labor in Retreat: Class and Community among Men's Clothing Workers of Chicago, 1871-1929.. 295 pp.
• Barrett, James. Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers, 1894—1922,
• Cohen, Lizabeth. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939.. 526 pp.
• Cummings, John. "The Chicago Teamsters' Strike: A study in industrial democracy." Journal of Political Economy 13: 536-73.
• Fine, Lisa M. The Souls of the Skyscraper: Female Clerical Workers in Chicago, 1870-1930.. 249 pp.
• Green, James. Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America.. 383 pp.
• Halpern, Rick. Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses, 1904-1954.. 309 pp.
• Hogan, John F. The 1937 Chicago Steel Strike: Blood on the Prairie
• Meyerowitz, Joanne J. Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880-1930.. 224 pp.
• Newell, Barbara Wayne. Chicago and the Labor Movement: Metropolitan Unionism in the 1930s
• Papke, David Ray. The Pullman Case: The Clash of Labor and Capital in Industrial America.. 118 pp. legal aspects
• Schneirov, Richard; Stromquist, Shelton; and Salvatore, Nick, eds. The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s: Essays on Labor and Politics.. 258 pp.
• Schneirov, Richard and Suhrbur, Thomas J. Union Brotherhood, Union Town: A History of the Carpenters' Union of Chicago, 1863-1987.. 211 pp.

  Business and economics

• Ascoli, Peter Max. Julius Rosenwald: The Man Who Built Sears, Roebuck and Advanced the Cause of Black Education in the American South
• Clavel, Pierre, and Robert Giloth, "Planning for Manufacturing: Chicago After 1983," Journal of Planning History, 14#1 pp: 19-37.
• Doussard, Marc; Peck, Jamie; Theodore, Nik. "After Deindustrialization: Uneven Growth and Economic Inequality in 'Postindustrial' Chicago" Economic Geography 85#2 pp 183–207.
• Emmet, Boris, and John E. Jeuck. Catalogues and Counters: A History of Sears, Roebuck & Company, the standard corporate history
• Ferris, William G. The Grain Traders: The Story of the Chicago Board of Trade.. 221 pp.
• Franch, John. Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes.. 374 pp.
• Hoyt, Homer. 1933. One Hundred Years of Land Values in Chicago. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
• McDonald, Forrest. Insull: The Rise and Fall of a Billionaire Utility Tycoon
• Rast, Joel. Remaking Chicago: The Political Origins of Urban Industrial Change.. 220 pp. redevelopment of area near downtown
• Smith, Raymond D., and William P. Darrow. "Strategic Management and Entrepreneurial Opportunity: The Rise of Sears, Inc.," Journal of Business & Entrepreneurship 11#1
• Soloman, Brian, et al. Chicago: America's Railroad Capital: The Illustrated History, 1836 to Today
• Young, David M. The Iron Horse and the Windy City: How Railroads Shaped Chicago.. 270 pp. popular
• Young, David M. Chicago Aviation: An Illustrated History.. 254 pp. popular
• Young, David M. Chicago Transit: An Illustrated History.. 213 pp. popular

  Environment

• Cain, Louis P. Sanitation Strategy for a Lakefront Metropolis: The Case of Chicago.. 141 pp.
• Cain, Louis P. "Sanitation in Chicago: A Strategy for a Lakefront Metropolis," Encyclopedia of Chicago
• Capano, Daniel E. "Chicago's War with Water." American Heritage of Invention & Technology 2003 18: 50–58. ISSN 8756-7296
• Cronon, William. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West.. 530 pp.
• Ferrie, Joseph P., & Werner Troesken. "Water and Chicago's mortality transition, 1850-1925." Explorations in Economic History 45#1 pp 1–16 ; economic analysis
• Klinenberg, Eric. Heat wave: A social autopsy of disaster in Chicago the 1995 disaster
• O'Connell, James C. Chicago's Quest for Pure Water..
• Pellow, David Naguib. Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago.. 234 pp.; 1940s-1990s
• Platt, Harold L. Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago.. 628 pp.
• Platt, Harold L. The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880–1930.. 318 pp.
• Rosen, Christine Meisner. "Businessmen against pollution in late nineteenth century Chicago." Business History Review 69#3 pp: 351-397.

  High culture, architecture, science

• Achilles, Rolf. Chicago School of Architecture: Building the Modern City, 1880-1910
• Bachin, Robin F., Building the South Side: Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, 1890-1919.. 434 pp.
• Bolotin, Norman and Laing, Christine. The World's Columbian Exposition: The Chicago World's Fair of 1893.. 166 pp.
• Bonner, Thomas Neville. Medicine in Chicago, 1850-1950: A Chapter in the Social and Scientific Development of a City.. 335 pp.
• Bruegmann, Robert. The Architects and the City: Holabird & Roche of Chicago, 1880-1918.. 544 pp.
• Cappetti, Carla. Writing Chicago: Modernism, Ethnography, and the Novel.. 274 pp.
• Christiansen, Richard. A Theater of Our Own: A History and a Memoir of 1,001 Nights in Chicago.. 317 pp.
• Clarke, Jane H.; Saliga, Pauline A.; and Zukowsky, John. The Sky's the Limit: A Century of Chicago Skyscrapers.. 304 pp.
• Condit, Carl W. Chicago, 1910-29: Building, Planning, and Urban Technology.. 354 pp.
• Condit, Carl W. Chicago, 1930-70: Building, Planning, and Urban Technology.. 351 pp.
• Garvey, Timothy J. Public Sculptor: Lorado Taft and the Beautification of Chicago.. 222 pp.
• Gray, Mary Lackritz. A Guide to Chicago's Murals.. 488 pp.
• Greenhouse, Wendy and Weininger, Susan. Chicago Painting 1895-1945: The Bridges Collection.. 251 pp.
• Gustaitis, Joseph. Chicago's Greatest Year, 1893: The White City and the Birth of a Modern Metropolis
• Hallwas, John E. ed., Illinois Literature: The Nineteenth Century
• Harris, Neil. Chicago Apartments: A Century of Lakefront Luxury.. 352 pp.
• Hines, Thomas S. Burnham of Chicago: Architect and Planner.. 445 pp.
• Leslie, Thomas. Chicago Skyscrapers, 1871-1934
• Longstreth, Richard, ed. The Charnley House: Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the Making of Chicago's Gold Coast.. 249 pp.
• Lowe, David Garrard. Lost Chicago, architectural landmarks that were torn down.
• McCarthy, Kathleen D. Noblesse Oblige: Charity and Cultural Philanthropy in Chicago, 1849-1929.. 230 pp.
• Moore, Michelle E. "Chicago and the Making of American Modernism: Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald in Conflict.". 264 pp.
• Moudry, Roberta, ed. The American Skyscraper: Cultural Histories.. 281 pp.
• Saum, Lewis O. Eugene Field and His Age.. 324 pp.
• Schaffer, Kristen. Daniel H. Burnham: Visionary Architect and Planner.. 223 pp.
• Siry, Joseph M. The Chicago Auditorium Building: Adler and Sullivan's Architecture and the City. . 550 pp.
• Siry, Joseph. Carson Pirie Scott: Louis Sullivan and the Chicago Department Store.. 290 pp.
• Waldheim, Charles and Ray, Katerina Rüedi, eds. Chicago Architecture: Histories, Revisions, Alternatives.. 488 pp.
• Wright, Gwendolyn. Moralism and the Model Home: Domestic Architecture and Cultural Conflict in Chicago, 1873-1913.. 382 pp.
• Zukowsky, John, ed. Chicago Architecture and Design, 1923-1993: Reconfiguration of an American Metropolis.. 479 pp.

  Black Chicago

• Best, Wallace D. Passionately Human, No Less Divine: Religion and Culture in Black Chicago, 1915-1952.. 251 pp.
• Black, Timuel D., Jr. Bridges of Memory: Chicago's First Wave of Black Migration.. 600 pp.
• Blakely, Robert J. Earl B. Dickerson: A Voice for Freedom and Equality.. 270 pp.
• Chicago Commission on Race Relations. The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot - 672 pages;
• Drake, St. Clair, and Horace R. Cayton. Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City, classic sociological study
• Grimshaw, William J. Bitter Fruit: Black Politics and the Chicago Machine, 1931-1991.. 248 pp.
• Grossman, James R. Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration.. 384 pp.
• Hirsch, Arnold R. Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-60.. 362 pp.
• Keiser, Richard A. "Explaining African-American Political Empowerment Windy City Politics from 1900 to 1983." Urban Affairs Review 29#1 pp: 84-116.
• Knupfer, Anne Meis. The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism.. 244 pp.
• Lemann, Nicholas. The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America.. 401 pp.
• Philpott, Thomas Lee. The Slum and the Ghetto: Immigrants, Blacks, and Reformers in Chicago, 1880-1930.. 437 pp.
• Pinderhughes, Dianne M. Race and Ethnicity in Chicago Politics: A Reexamination of Pluralist Theory.. 318 pp.
• Reed, Christopher Robert. Black Chicago's First Century. Vol. 1: 1833-1900.. 582 pp.
• Reed, Christopher Robert. The Chicago NAACP and the Rise of Black Professional Leadership, 1910-1966.. 257 pp.
• Rivlin, Gary. Fire on the Prairie: Chicago's Harold Washington and the Politics of Race.. 426 pp.
• Spear, Allan. Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto, 1890—1920,
• Strickland, Arvarh E. History of the Chicago Urban League.. 286 pp.
• Tuttle, William M., Jr. Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919.. 305 pp.
• Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi. American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto,, 360pp, on Robert Taylor Homes, a high rise public housing project with a negative reputation
• Wellman, James K., Jr. The Gold Coast Church and the Ghetto: Christ and Culture in Mainline Protestantism.. 241 pp.

  Education

• Nakano, Shinji. "". 生活科・総合的学習研究 7, 15-22, 2009-03-31. 愛知教育大学生活科教育講座. AUE Repository. CiNii.
• Shinohara, Takeshi. "". 日本教育政策学会年報, 153-166, 2008-06-30. Japan Academic Society for Educational Policy. CiNii which includes the English abstract.
• Takei, Hiroshi. "". Hitotsubashi Bulletin of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University. #5, 213-239, 2008-12. . HERMES-IR. CiNii.
• Yamashita, Kouichi. "". Bulletin of the JEAS , 135-146, 1997-10-17. The Japan Educational Administration Society. CiNii.

  Social, religious, and ethnic

• Anderson, Philip J. and Blanck, Dag, eds. Swedish-American Life in Chicago: Cultural and Urban Aspects of an Immigrant People, 1850-1930.. 394 pp.
• Avella, Steven M. This Confident Church: Catholic Leadership and Life in Chicago, 1940-1965.. 410 pp.
• Barrett, James. Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers, 1894—1922,
• Beijbom, Ulf. Swedes in Chicago: A Demographic and Social Study of the 1846-1880 Immigration.. 381 pp
• Betancur, John J. "The Settlement Experience of Latinos in Chicago: Segregation, Speculation, and the Ecology Model." Social Forces 1996 74: 1299–1324. ISSN 0037-7732 Fulltext:
• Bowly Jr., Devereux The Poorhouse: Subsidized Housing in Chicago, 1895-1976
• Candeloro, Dominic. Italians in Chicago.. 128 pp.
• Cutler, Irving. The Jews of Chicago: From Shtetl to Suburb.. 316 pp.
• Dahm, Charles and Ghelardi, Robert. Power and Authority in the Catholic Church: Cardinal Cody in Chicago.. 334 pp.
• DeGenova, Nicholas. Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and "Illegality" in Mexican Chicago.. 329 pp.
• Duis, Perry R. Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837-1920.. 430 pp.
• Duis, Perry R. The Saloon: Public Drinking in Chicago and Boston, 1880-1920.
• Erdmans, Mary Patrice. Opposite Poles: Immigrants and Ethnics in Polish Chicago, 1976-1990.. 267 pp.
• Fernandez, Lilia. Brown in the Windy City: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago
• Fuerst, J. S. and Hunt, D. Bradford, eds. When Public Housing Was Paradise: Building Community in Chicago. 228 pp.
• Green, Paul M., and Melvin G. Holli. Chicago, World War II
• Greene, Victor. For God and Country: The Rise of Polish and Lithuanian Ethnic Consciousness in America, 1860-1910.. 202 pp.
• Guglielmo, Thomas A. White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945.. 296 pp.
• Harden, Jacalyn D. Double Cross: Japanese Americans in Black and White Chicago.. 232 pp.
• Holli, Melvin G. and Jones, Peter d'A., eds. Ethnic Chicago: A Multicultural Portrait.. 648 pp. essays by scholars on each major ethnic group
• Hoy, Suellen. Good Hearts: Catholic Sisters in Chicago's Past.. 242 pp.
• Inglot, Tomasz, and John P. Pelissero. "Ethnic Political Power in a Machine City Chicago's Poles at Rainbow's End." Urban Affairs Review 28#4 pp: 526-543.
• Jaher, Frederic Cople. The Urban Establishment: Upper Strata in Boston, New York, Charleston, Chicago, and Los Angeles.. 777 pp.
• Kantowicz, Edward R. Corporation Sole: Cardinal Mundelein and Chicago Catholicism.. 295 pp.
• Keil, Hartmut, ed. German Workers' Culture in the United States, 1850 to 1920.. 330 pp.
• Keil, Hartmut and Jentz, John B., eds. German Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1850-1910: A Comparative Perspective.. 252 pp.
• Lovoll, Odd S. A Century of Urban Life: The Norwegians in Chicago before 1930.. 367 pp.
• McCaffrey, Lawrence J.; Skerrett, Ellen; Funchion, Michael F.; and Fanning, Charles. The Irish in Chicago.. 171 pp.
• Nelli, Humbert S. The Italians in Chicago: A Study in Ethnic Mobility, 1880-1930.. 300 pp.
• Pacyga, Dominic A. Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago: Workers on the South Side, 1880-1920.. 322 pp.
• Padilla, Felix M. Puerto Rican Chicago.. 277 pp.
• Parot, Joseph John. Polish Catholics in Chicago, 1850-1920: A Religious History. 298 pp.
• Philpott, Thomas Lee. The Slum and the Ghetto: Immigrants, Blacks, and Reformers in Chicago, 1880-1930.. 437 pp.
• Posadas, Barbara M. "Crossed Boundaries in Interracial Chicago: Filipino American Families since 1925," in Unequal Sisters: A Multi-Cultural Reader in U.S. Women's History, ed. Vicki L. Ruiz and Ellen Carol DuBois, 319+.
• Rangaswamy, Padma. Namasté America: Indian Immigrants in an American Metropolis. 2000. 366 pp.
• Robertson, Darrel M. The Chicago Revival, 1876: Society and Revivalism in a Nineteenth-Century City.. 225 pp.
• Sanders, James W. The Education of an Urban Minority: Catholics in Chicago, 1833-1965.. 278 pp.
• Shanabruch, Charles. Chicago's Catholics: The Evolution of an American Identity.. 296 pp.
• Shaw, Stephen J. The Catholic Parish as a Way-Station of Ethnicity and Americanization: Chicago's Germans and Italians, 1903-1939.. 206 pp.
• Swierenga, Robert P. Dutch Chicago: A History of the Hollanders in the Windy City.. 825 pp.
• Tischauser, Leslie V. The Burden of Ethnicity: The German Question in Chicago, 1914-1941.. 282 pp.
• Tuttle, William M., Jr. Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919.. 305 pp.
• Wade, Louise Carroll. Chicago's Pride: The Stockyards, Packingtown, and Environs in the Nineteenth Century.. 423 pp.
• Walch, Timothy. The Diverse Origins of American Catholic Education: Chicago, Milwaukee, and the Nation.. 235 pp.
• Wellman, James K., Jr. The Gold Coast Church and the Ghetto: Christ and Culture in Mainline Protestantism.''. 241 pp.

  Sports, entertainment, music, newspapers

• Heap, Chad. Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940.. 432 pp.
• Kenney, William Howland. Chicago Jazz: A Cultural History, 1904-1930.. 233 pp.
• Kinsley, Philip. The Chicago Tribune: Its First Hundred Years
• Sengstock, Charles A., Jr. That Toddlin' Town: Chicago's White Dance Bands and Orchestras, 1900-1950.. 244 pp.
• Smith, Richard Norton. The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick, 1880-1955.. 597 pp.
• Spirou, Costas and Bennett, Larry. It's Hardly Sportin': Stadiums, Neighborhoods, and the New Chicago.. 212 pp.
• Vaillant, Derek. Sounds of Reform: Progressivism & Music in Chicago, 1873-1935.. 401 pp.
• Ziemba, Joe. When Football Was Football: The Chicago Cardinals and the Birth of the NFL.. 408 pp.

  Reputation, images, visions, planning

• Bachin, Robin F., Building the South Side: Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, 1890-1919.. 434 pp.
• Fairfield, John D. The Mysteries of the Great City: The Politics of Urban Design, 1877-1937.. 320 pp.
• Flanagan, Maureen A. Seeing with Their Hearts: Chicago Women and the Vision of the Good City, 1871-1933.. 319 pp.
• Hines, Thomas S. Burnham of Chicago: Architect and Planner.. 445 pp.
• Miller, Ross. American Apocalypse: The Great Fire and the Myth of Chicago. 1990. 287 pp.
• Ciccone, F. Richard Royko: A Life in Print
• Smith, Carl. The plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the remaking of the American city
• Smith, Carl S. Chicago and the American Literary Imagination, 1880-1920.. 232 pp.
• Spears, Timothy B. Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and the City, 1871-1919.. 322 pp.
• Williams, Kenny J. A Storyteller and a City: Sherwood Anderson's Chicago.. 314 pp.
• Williams, Kenny J. and Duffy, Bernard, eds. Chicago's Public Wits: A Chapter in the American Comic Spirit.. 289 pp.
• Williams, Kenny J. Prairie Voices: A Literary History of Chicago from the Frontier to 1893.. 529 pp.

  Primary sources

• Byrne, Jane. My Chicago., mayor in 1980s
• Despres, Leon M. and Heise, Kenan. Challenging the Daley Machine: A Chicago Alderman's Memoir.. 168 pp.
• Fanning, Charles, ed. Mr. Dooley and the Chicago Irish: An Anthology..
• Keil, Hartmut and Jentz, John B., eds. German Workers in Chicago: A Documentary History of Working-Class Culture from 1850 to World War I.. 427 pp.
• Pierce, Bessue Louise, ed. As Others See Chicago: Impressions of Visitors, 1673-1933.. 548 pp
• Royko, Mike. For the Love of Mike: More of the Best of Mike Royko.. 270 pp.
• Sandburg, Carl. Chicago Poems
• Thomas, William, and Florian Znaniecki. The Polish Peasant in Europe and America. 2 vol 1920, . ; famous classic