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For many topics the easiest way to start is with Janice L. Reiff, Ann Durkin Keating and James R. Grossman, eds. The Encyclopedia of Chicago (2004), with thorough coverage by scholars in 1120 pages of text, maps and photos.

Abu-Lughod, Janet L. New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities (U of Minnesota Press, 1999), Compares the three cities in terms of geography, economics and race from 1800 to 1990 Allswang, John. A House For All Peoples: Ethnic Politics In Chicago, 1890-1936. (1973). 213 pp. Andreas, A. T. History of Chicago. From the earliest period to the present time (1884) online v 1; online v 2; online v. 3 Ascoli, Peter Max. Julius Rosenwald: The Man Who Built Sears, Roebuck and Advanced the Cause of Black Education in the American South (2006) excerpt and text search Avrich, Paul. The Haymarket Tragedy (1984) excerpt and text search Bales, Richard F. The Great Chicago Fire and the Myth of Mrs. O'Leary's Cow. (2002). 338 pp. Barnard, Harry. "Eagle Forgotten": The Life of John Peter Altgeld (1938) Barrett, James. Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers, 1894—1922 (1987), excerpt and text search Biles, Roger. Big City Boss in Depression and War: Mayor Edward J. Kelly of Chicago. (1984). 219 pp. Biles, Roger. Richard J. Daley: Politics, Race, and the Governing of Chicago. (1995). 292 pp. Bolotin, Norman and Laing, Christine. The World's Columbian Exposition: The Chicago World's Fair of 1893. (1992). 166 pp. Bonner, Thomas Neville. Medicine in Chicago, 1850-1950: A Chapter in the Social and Scientific Development of a City. (1957, 2nd ed. 1991). 335 pp. Brosnan, Kathleen A., William C. Barnett, and Ann Durkin Keating. City of Lake and Prairie: Chicago's Environmental History (U of Pittsburgh Press, 2020) Bukowski, Douglas. Big Bill Thompson, Chicago, and the Politics of Image. (1998). 273 pp. excerpt and text search Candeloro, Dominic. Italians in Chicago. (1999). 128 pp. Clavel, Pierre, and Robert Giloth, "Planning for Manufacturing: Chicago After 1983," Journal of Planning History, 14#1 (Feb. 2015) pp: 19–37. Cohen, Adam, and Elizabeth Taylor. American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation. (2001). 614pp ISBN 0-316-83489-0 excerpt and text search Cohen, Lizabeth. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939. (1990). 526 pp. excerpt and text search Condit, Carl W. Chicago, 1910-29: Building, Planning, and Urban Technology. (1973). 354 pp.; Chicago, 1930-70: Building, Planning, and Urban Technology. (1974). 351 pp. Connolly, Mary Beth Fraser. Women of Faith: The Chicago Sisters of Mercy and the Evolution of a Religious Community (Oxford University Press, 2014) Cronon, William. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. (1991). 530 pp. excerpt and text search Cutler, Irving. The Jews of Chicago: From Shtetl to Suburb. (1996). 316 pp. Drake, St. Clair, and Horace R. Cayton. Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City (4th ed. 1945), classic sociological study Duis, Perry R. The Saloon: Public Drinking in Chicago and Boston, 1880-1920 (1983). Emmet, Boris, and John E. Jeuck. Catalogues and Counters: A History of Sears, Roebuck & Company (1965), the standard corporate history Fernandez, Lilia. Brown in the Windy City: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago (2014) Ferris, William G. The Grain Traders: The Story of the Chicago Board of Trade. (1988). 221 pp. Fine, Lisa M. The Souls of the Skyscraper: Female Clerical Workers in Chicago, 1870-1930. (1990). 249 pp. Fisher, Colin. Urban Green: Nature, Recreation, and the Working Class in Industrial Chicago (2015) Green, Paul M. and Holli, Melvin G., eds. The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition (1995) online edition I; essays by scholars covering important mayors before 1980 Green, Paul M., and Melvin G. Holli. Chicago, World War II (2003) excerpt and text search; short and heavily illustrated Grimshaw, William J. Bitter Fruit: Black Politics and the Chicago Machine, 1931-1991. (1992). 248 pp. Grossman, James R. Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration. (1989). 384 pp. Gustaitis, Joseph. Chicago's Greatest Year, 1893: The White City and the Birth of a Modern Metropolis (2013) Gustaitis, Joseph. Chicago Transformed: World War I and the Windy City (2016). Hogan, David John. Class and Reform: School and Society in Chicago, 1880-1930. (1985). 328 pp. Holli, Melvin G. and Jones, Peter d'A., eds. Ethnic Chicago: A Multicultural Portrait. (4th ed. 1995). 648 pp. essays by scholars on each major ethnic group Jentz, John B. and Richard Schneirov. Chicago in the Age of Capital (2012) covers politics 1860 to 1880 excerpt and text search; 330pp; also JSTOR 10.5406/j.ctt2ttbkb—full text. Kantowicz, Edward R. Corporation Sole: Cardinal Mundelein and Chicago Catholicism. (1983). 295 pp. Karamanski, Theodore J. Rally 'Round the Flag: Chicago and the Civil War. (1993). 292 pp. Keating, Ann Durkin. "In the Shadow of Chicago: Postwar Illinois Historiography." Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 111.1-2 (2018): 120-136. JSTOR 10.5406/jillistathistsoc.111.1-2.0120. Keating, Ann Durkin. "Chicagoland: More than the Sum of its Parts." Journal of Urban History 2004 30(2): 213-230. doi:10.1177/0096144203258353 Keating, Ann Durkin. Building Chicago: Suburban Developers and the Creation of Divided Metropolis (2002) Keil, Hartmut and Jentz, John B., eds. German Workers in Industrial Chicago, 1850-1910: A Comparative Perspective. (1983). 252 pp. Kleppner, Paul. Chicago Divided: The Making of a Black Mayor. (1985). 313 pp. Lemann, Nicholas. The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America. (1991). 401 pp. Longstreet, Stephen. Chicago: An Intimate Portrait of People, Pleasures, and Power, 1860–1919. (1973). 547 pp. popular Mayer, Harold M., and Richard C. Wade. Chicago: Growth of a Metropolis (1969) 510pp McCaffrey, Lawrence J.; Skerrett, Ellen; Funchion, Michael F.; and Fanning, Charles. The Irish in Chicago. (1987). 171 pp. McDonald, Forrest. Insull: The Rise and Fall of a Billionaire Utility Tycoon (2004) Miller, Donald L. City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America (1997), popular epic; excerpt and text search Miller, Ross. American Apocalypse: The Great Fire and the Myth of Chicago. 1990. 287 pp. Miller, Ross. The Great Chicago Fire (2000); 1st ed was American Apocalypse: The Great Chicago Fire and the Myth of Chicago 287 pp. Nelli, Humbert S. The Italians in Chicago: A Study in Ethnic Mobility, 1880–1930. (1970). 300 pp. Pacyga, Dominic A. Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago: Workers on the South Side, 1880–1920. (1991). 322 pp. excerpt and text search Pacyga, Dominic A. Chicago: A Biography (2011), 472pp; detailed history by a scholar, based on secondary sources. excerpt and text search Parot, Joseph John. Polish Catholics in Chicago, 1850-1920: A Religious History. (1982) 298 pp. Peterson, Paul E. The Politics of School Reform, 1870–1940. (1985). 241 pp. Pierce, Bessie Louise. A History of Chicago (3 vol., Volume I: The Beginning of a City 1673–1848 (1937) excerpt and text search vol 1; Volume II: From Town to City 1848–1871 (1940); Volume III: The Rise of a Modern City, 1871–1893 (1957) excerpt and text search vol 3); the major scholarly history Pierce, Bessue Louise, ed. As Others See Chicago: Impressions of Visitors, 1673-1933. (1937, reprinted 2004). 548 pp excerpt and text search, primary sources Rivlin, Gary (1992). Fire on the Prairie: Chicago's Harold Washington and the Politics of Race. 426 pp. Sawyers, June Skinner. Chicago Portraits (2nd ed. Northwestern University Press, 2012), 250 short biographies Schneirov, Richard; Stromquist, Shelton; and Salvatore, Nick, eds. The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s: Essays on Labor and Politics. (1999). 258 pp. excerpt and text search Shanabruch, Charles. Chicago's Catholics: The Evolution of an American Identity. (1981). 296 pp. Smith, Carl S. Chicago and the American Literary Imagination, 1880-1920. (1984). 232 pp. Smith, Richard Norton. The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick, 1880-1955. (1997). 597 pp. publisher of Chicago Tribune Spear, Allan. Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto, 1890–1920 (1967), Spinney, Robert G. City of Big Shoulders: A History of Chicago (2000), popular epic; excerpt and text search Tuttle, William M., Jr. Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919. (1970). 305 pp. WPA. Illinois: A Descriptive and Historical Guide (1939) Young, David M. Chicago Transit: An Illustrated History (1998). 213 pp.