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EIGHT FORTY-EIGHT

A Chicago Birthday Book Bag

originally aired 3.4.04
Our panel describes the essential book list for anyone who wants to truly understand Chicago.

The Panel

Craig Sautter
President of the Society of Midland Authors, professor at DePaul University, and co-author of Inside the Wigwam
Kenan Heise
Historian and author of Chaos, Creativity and Culture: A Sampling of Chicago in the 20th Century
Mary Dempsey
Chicago Public Library Commissioner

The Books

Books are listed in alphabetical order by title.
1001 Afternoons in Chicago
Ben Hecht
The Adventures of Augie March
Saul Bellow
As Others See Chicago
Bessie Louise Pierce
Barriers Burned Away
E. P. Roe
Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City
St. Clair Drake and Horace A. Cayton
Boss, Richard J. Daley of Chicago
Mike Royko
The Chicago Bungalow
Dominic A. Pacyga and Charles Shanabruck, editors
Chicago and Its Makers
Felix Mendelsohn
Chicago City of Neighborhoods: Histories and Tours
Dominic A. Pacyga
Chicago Growth of a Metropolis
Harold Mayer & Richard Wade
Chicago on Foot 4th edition
Ira Bach
Chicago Portraits: Biographies of 250 Famous Chicagoans
June Skinner Sawyers
Chicago: City on the Make
Nelson Algren
Chicago: Its History and Its Builders
J. Seymour Currey
Chicago’s Left Bank
Alson J. Smith
A Child of the Century
Ben Hecht
The Chicago River: A Natural and Unnatural History
Libby Hill
City Dogs
Bill Brashler
The City in a Garden: A Photographic History of Chicago's Parks
Julia Sniderman Bachrach
City of the Century: the Epic of Chicago and the Making of America
Donald L. Miller
The Cliff Dwellers
Henry Blake Fuller
The Coast of Chicago
Stuart Dybek
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Deadlines and Monkeyshines
John J. McPhaul
The Devil and the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
Erik Larson
Division Street
Studs Terkel
A Dream of Kings
Harry Mark Petrakis
Gem of the Prairie: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld
Herbert Asbury
The Great Chicago Fire
Robert Cromie
History of Chicago
A. T. Andreas.
A History of Chicago
Bessie Louise Pierce
History of Cook County
A. T. Andreas
If Christ Came to Chicago
W. T. Stead
In the Castle of the Flynns: A Novel
Michael Raleigh
Inside the Wigwam: Chicago Presidential Elections 1860-1996
R. Craig Sautter and Edward M. Burke
The Jungle
Upton Lewis
Knock on Any Door
Willard Motley
Little Caesar
W. R. Burnett
Lords of the Levy
Lloyd Wendt and Herman Kogan
Lost Chicago
David Lowe.
The Man with the Golden Arm
Nelson Algren
Memoirs of an American Citizen
Robert Herrick
Memory Mambo
Achy Obejas
Native Son
Richard Wright
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
William Cronon.
The Old Bunch
Meyer Levin
Rogues, Rebels, and Rubber Stamps: The Politics of the Chicago City Council from 1863 to the Present
Dick Simpson
The Second City: Backstage at the World's Greatest Comedy Theater
Sheldon Patinkin, Robert Klein, and Alan Arkin
Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser
Studs Lonigan: A Trilogy Comprising Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and Judgment Day
James T. Farrell
The Titan
Theodore Dreiser
Trumbull Park
Frank London Brown
Twenty Years at Hull-House
Jane Addams
Urban Art Chicago: A Guide to Community Murals, Mosaics, and Sculptures by Ivan Dee Olivia Gude
A Useful Woman: The Early Life of Jane Addams
Gioia Diliberto
Wau Bun (The Early Days in the Northwest)
Juliette Kinzie
Wicked City: Chicago from Kenna to Capone
Curt Johnson and R. Craig Sautter
Windy City
Sam Ross
Windy City Wild: Chicago's Natural Wonders
Robert Shaw, Jason Lindsey, and Bill Kurtis
Years of Grace
Margaret Ayer Barnes

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