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Chicago; a personal history of America's most American city.

Book/text

New Rochelle, N.Y., Arlington House [1973]

1973

1 item

Call number

IVF (Chicago) 73-1975

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Chicago's rapid transit.

Book/text

[Chicago, 1973]

1973

1 item

Call number

JSK 73-275 Library has: Vol. 1. v. 1

Item location

Offsite

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Chicago, 1860-1919.

Book/text

New York, McKay [1973]

1973

1 item

Call number

IVF (Chicago) 74-1100

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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The Beaubiens of Chicago [by] George R. Lee.

Book/text

[Canton? Mo.] [1973]

1973

1 item

Call number

APV (Beaubien) 74-1386

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Une colonisation par le café [par] Jérémie.

Book/text

[n. p., 1948?]

1948

1 item

Call number

Sc B-Pointe de Sable (Jérémie, J. Colonisation par le café [par] Jérémie. 1948)

Item location

Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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In the city of men; another story of Chicago.

Book/text

Nashville, Tenn., Townsend Press [1974]

1974

1 item

Call number

Sc 917.731-W (Williams, K. In the city of men)

Item location

Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Lost Chicago / David Lowe.

Book/text

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1975.

1975

2 items

Call number

MQWO 76-413

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300

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Call number

IVF (Chicago) 76-1420

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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The Germans of Chicago, by Rudolf A. Hofmeister.

Book/text

[Champaign, Ill., Stipes Pub. Co., 1976]

1976

1 item

Call number

IEK 78-2528

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Chicago, a historical guide to the neighborhoods : the Loop and South Side / Glen E. Holt and Dominic A. Pacyga.

Book/text

[Chicago] : Chicago Historical Society, 1979.

1979

1 item

Call number

IVF (Chicago) 80-2326

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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From fjord to prairie : Norwegian-Americans in the Midwest 1825-1975 / Lawrence Milton Nelson, editor and designer ; prepared by the N.A.I.A.C. Book Committee, Cora Louise Bower ... [et. al.].

Book/text

Chicago : Norwegian American Immigration Anniversary Commission, 1976.

1976

1 item

Call number

IEP 80-2681

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892. Describing the difficulties of the route from New York to Chicago, and hardships of the first winter ... By Charles Cleaver ... Also giving a description of Jackson Park and ... the World's Fair.

Book/text

Chicago, The author, 1892.

1892

1 item

Available online

Full text available via HathiTrust

Call number

IVF (Chicago) 82-218

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Chicago / photography by Archie Lieberman ; text by Robert Cromie.

Book/text

Chicago : Rand McNally, c1980.

1980

1 item

Call number

IVF+ (Chicago) 82-1323

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Nineteenth century Chicago Irish : a social and political portrait / by Charles Fanning, Ellen Skerrett, John Corrigan.

Book/text

Chicago, Ill. (820 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago 60611) : Center for Urban Policy, Loyola University of Chicago, 1980.

1980

1 item

Call number

IEH 84-1880

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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A short history of Chicago / Robert Cromie.

Book/text

San Francisco : Lexikos, 1984.

1984

1 item

Call number

IVF (Chicago) 85-952

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Illinois : its history & legacy / Roger D. Bridges, Rodney O. Davis.

Book/text

St. Louis, Mo. : River City Publishers, c1984.

1984

1 item

Call number

IVE 86-2857

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Chicago : portret miasta / Longin Pastusiak.

Book/text

Warszawa : Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza, 1986.

1986

1 item

Call number

*QR 87-5351

Item location

Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Chicago, city on the make / Nelson Algren ; with an introduction by Studs Terkel.

Book/text

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1987, c1979.

1987

1 item

Dupont show of the week. America's music--Chicago and all that jazz [videorecording] / Produced as a special project by the NBC Television Network ; directed by James Elson ; associate producer, Norman Kahn.

Film, slide, etc.

New York : NBC Television Network, 1961-11-26.

1961

1 item

Call number

Sc Visual DVD-629

Item location

Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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A century of urban life : the Norwegians in Chicago before 1930 / by Odd S. Lovoll.

Book/text

[Northfield, Minn.] : Norwegian-American Historical Association ; Champaign, Ill. : Distributed by University of Illinois Press, 1988.

1988

1 item

Call number

IEP 89-1642

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Chicago, city of neighborhoods : histories & tours / Dominic A. Pacyga, Ellen Skerrett ; with a foreword by M.W. Newman..

Book/text

Chicago : Loyola University Press, c1986.

1986

1 item

Call number

IVF (Chicago) 90-11520

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Chicago's progress : a review of the world's fair city / compiled and published by Glenn A. Bishop in collaboration with Paul T. Gilbert ; drawings on biographical pages by Raymond E. Craig.

Book/text

Chicago : Bishop Pub. Co., 1933.

1933

1 item

Call number

IVF (Chicago) 88-3735

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Metropolitan Applied Research Center (MARC) reports

Archival mix

1954

24 items

Call number

Sc MG 236

Item location

Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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Call number

Sc MG 236

Item location

Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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Call number

Sc MG 236

Item location

Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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Historical fragments of early Chicagoland [microform] / by Harley Bradford Mitchell ; illustrated with old maps and pen and ink drawings by Jean Myall.

Microform

Chicago : The Atwell Printing & Binding Co., [c1928]

1928

1 item

Call number

*ZI-558

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Chicago and her churches [microform]. By George S. Phillips (January Searle)

Microform

Chicago, E.B. Myers and Chandler, 1868.

1868

1 item

We've got a job to do : Chicagoans and World War II / Perry R. Duis and Scott La France.

Book/text

[Chicago, IL] : Chicago Historical Society, 1992.

1992

1 item

Race riot; Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919 [by] William M. Tuttle, Jr.

Book/text

New York, Atheneum, 1970.

1970

1 item

Call number

Sc 977.3-T (Tuttle, W. Race riot)

Item location

Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Chicago, crossroads of American enterprise... by Dorsha B. Hayes; introduction by Sterling North, illustrations by George McVicker.

Book/text

New York, J. Messner inc. [1944]

1944

2 items

Call number

Sc 977.3-H (Hayes, D. Chicago)

Item location

Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Call number

IVF (Chicago) (Hayes, D. Chicago, crossroads of American enterprise)

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Checagou; from Indian wigwam to modern city, 1673-1835 [by] Milo M. Quaife.

Book/text

Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago Press [1933]

1933

2 items

Call number

Sc 977.3-Q (Quaife, M. Checagou)

Item location

Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Call number

IVF (Chicago) (Quaife, M. M. Checagou)

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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1927 Intercollegian wonder book, or, 1779-The Negro in Chicago-1927 ... survey of the Negro's educational, athletic, civic and commercial life from 1779 to 1927. History, who's who in Chicago, directory, facts and figures about the Negro for 8000 years ...

Book/text

Chicago, The Club [c1927]

1927

1 item

Call number

Sc 977.3-W (Washington Intercollegiate Club of Chicago. 1927 Intercollegian wonder book)

Item location

Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Une colonisation par le café [par] Jérémie.

Book/text

[n.p., 194-?]

1940

1 item

Call number

Sc B-Pointe de Sable (Jérémie, J. Colonisation par le café [par] Jérémie)

Item location

Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Chicago's Chinatown / by Harry Ying Cheng Kiang.

Book/text

Lincolnwood, Ill. : Institute of China Studies, 1992.

1992

1 item

History of Altgeld Gardens, 1944-1960 / Altgeld-Carver Alumni Assoc.

Book/text

[Chicago?] : The Association, c1993

1993

1 item

Call number

Sc F 94-112

Item location

Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Wicked city Chicago : from Kenna to Capone / Curt Johnson and R. Craig Sautter.

Book/text

Chicago : December Press, c1994.

1994

1 item

Call number

IVF (Chicago) 94-9102

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Greater Chicago historical tour guide / by D. Ray Wilson.

Book/text

Carpentersville, Ill. : Crossroads Communications, 1989.

1989

1 item

Call number

IVF (Chicago) 95-3799

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Chicago sketches : urban tales, stories, and legends from Chicago history / June Skinner Sawyers.

Book/text

Chicago : Wild Onion Books, c1995.

1995

1 item

Call number

IVF (Chicago) 97-11038

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Life and character of William Taylor Baker, president of the World's Columbian exposition and of the Chicago Board of trade, by his son Charles H. Baker.

Book/text

New York, The Premier press, 1908.

1908

1 item

Call number

AN (Baker) (Baker, C. H. Life and character of William Taylor Baker)

Item location

Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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City of the century : the epic of Chicago and the making of America / Donald Miller.

Book/text

New York : Simon & Schuster, c1996.

1996

1 item

Call number

IVF (Chicago) 96-7445

Item location

Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Recollections of seventy years / by Augustus Ls. Chetlain ; brigadier, and brevet major general U.S. vols., Civil War, 1861-65.

Book/text

Galena : The Gazette Publishing Company, 1899.

1899

1 item

Call number

AN (Chetlain) (Chetlain, A. L. Recollections of seventy years)

Item location

Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Growing up with Chicago, sequel to "Stormy years," by Carter H. Harrison.

Book/text

Chicago, R. F. Seymour [1944]

1944

1 item

Call number

AN (Harrison) (Harrison, C. H. Growing up with Chicago)

Item location

Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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The social and political activities of William James Onahan by Sister M. Sevina Pahorezki.

Book/text

Washington, D. C. The Catholic university of America, 1942.

1942

1 item

Call number

AN (Onahan) (Pahorezki, S. Social and political activities of William James Onahan)

Item location

Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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H. H. Porter; a short autobiography written for his children and grandchildren.

Book/text

Chicago, Priv. print. [R.R. Donnelley and sons company] 1915.

1915

1 item

Call number

AN (Porter) (Porter, H. H. H. H. Porter)

Item location

Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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