3lilithcat
The basics:
Boss, by Mike Royko
Royko: a life in print, by F. Richard Ciccone
Chicago by day and night : the pleasure seeker's guide to the Paris of America, ed. by Paul Durica. (This is a reprint of a guide written for visitors to the 1893 Columbian Exposition, and it's a hoot!)
A theater of our own : a history and a memoir of 1,001 nights in Chicago, by Richard Christiansen
The plan of Chicago : Daniel Burnham and the remaking of the American city, by Carl Smith
Chicago, city on the make, by Nelson Algren
Chicago afternoons with Leon : 99 1/2 years old and looking forward, by Kenan Heise (reminiscences of Chicago's great opposition alderman, Leon Despres)
To sleep with the angels : the story of a fire, by David Cowan, the story of the Our Lady of Angels school fire, an event that is forever impressed on the memory of Chicagoans of a certain age.
Never a city so real : a walk in Chicago, by Alex Kotlowitz
Chicago Poems, by Carl Sandburg
Give the Lady What She Wants: The Story of Marshall Field & Company, by Lloyd Wendt
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago, by Ben Hecht
Chicago, by Studs Terkel
AIA Guide to Chicago
Boss, by Mike Royko
Royko: a life in print, by F. Richard Ciccone
Chicago by day and night : the pleasure seeker's guide to the Paris of America, ed. by Paul Durica. (This is a reprint of a guide written for visitors to the 1893 Columbian Exposition, and it's a hoot!)
A theater of our own : a history and a memoir of 1,001 nights in Chicago, by Richard Christiansen
The plan of Chicago : Daniel Burnham and the remaking of the American city, by Carl Smith
Chicago, city on the make, by Nelson Algren
Chicago afternoons with Leon : 99 1/2 years old and looking forward, by Kenan Heise (reminiscences of Chicago's great opposition alderman, Leon Despres)
To sleep with the angels : the story of a fire, by David Cowan, the story of the Our Lady of Angels school fire, an event that is forever impressed on the memory of Chicagoans of a certain age.
Never a city so real : a walk in Chicago, by Alex Kotlowitz
Chicago Poems, by Carl Sandburg
Give the Lady What She Wants: The Story of Marshall Field & Company, by Lloyd Wendt
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago, by Ben Hecht
Chicago, by Studs Terkel
AIA Guide to Chicago
4rolandperkins
I must admit, Iʻve only been
in Chicago once in 83 years. But this thread amazed me by the sight of
some 20 titles (most of them "Basics") without a single
Saul Bellow item, and with
only one Nelson Algren (Good list, however, @lilithcat) (3). And of course, my next cry is "Where is James T. Farrell!?" (Or is that just an octogenarian yelp?)
So Iʻll cite: The Man with the Golden Arm
by N. A., and S.B.ʻs Humboldts Gift and (one that I wouldnʻt have known of without LT): It All Adds up. . . , his
1995 (?) non-fiction collection.
in Chicago once in 83 years. But this thread amazed me by the sight of
some 20 titles (most of them "Basics") without a single
Saul Bellow item, and with
only one Nelson Algren (Good list, however, @lilithcat) (3). And of course, my next cry is "Where is James T. Farrell!?" (Or is that just an octogenarian yelp?)
So Iʻll cite: The Man with the Golden Arm
by N. A., and S.B.ʻs Humboldts Gift and (one that I wouldnʻt have known of without LT): It All Adds up. . . , his
1995 (?) non-fiction collection.
5reconditereader
Dresden Files! Starts with Storm Front.
6pitjrw
To rectify the lack of a specific Bellow recommendation The Adventures of Augie March
The Death of the Detective by {Mark Smith} a personal favorite
and I'd be remiss if I didn't second the recommendation of Boss
The Death of the Detective by {Mark Smith} a personal favorite
and I'd be remiss if I didn't second the recommendation of Boss
8lilithcat
Need to add to what has already been listed:
The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream, by Thomas Dyja
Who is the City for? Architecture, Equity, and and the Public Realm in Chicago, by Blair Kamin
Southern exposure : the overlooked architecture of Chicago's South Side, by Lee Bey
The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream, by Thomas Dyja
Who is the City for? Architecture, Equity, and and the Public Realm in Chicago, by Blair Kamin
Southern exposure : the overlooked architecture of Chicago's South Side, by Lee Bey
9kittytm
Come on! The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Also:
Blue Balliet's children's books, Chasing Vermeer, and The Wright Three
Sara Paretsky's V. I. Warshawski books
P.I Elrod's Vampire Files (set in 1930's Chicago they are the ultimate genre buster: historical mystery with a vampire detective.)
Also:
Blue Balliet's children's books, Chasing Vermeer, and The Wright Three
Sara Paretsky's V. I. Warshawski books
P.I Elrod's Vampire Files (set in 1930's Chicago they are the ultimate genre buster: historical mystery with a vampire detective.)
10pitjrw
Nature's Metropolis by William Cronon would certainly have been on my list if I had read it when I posted it. Also Heat Wave by Eric Klingenberg .
