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Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (212 pages)
Language
English
Description
It was a bitter cold morning in March, 1908. A nineteen-year-old Jewish immigrant traversed the confusing and unfamiliar streets of Chicago-a one-and-a-half-hour-long journey-from his ghetto home on Washburne Avenue to the luxurious Lincoln Place residence of Police Chief George Shippy. He arrived at 9 a.m. Within minutes after knocking on the front door, Lazarus Averbuch lay dead on the hallway floor, shot no less than six times by the chief himself....
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (ix, 421 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language
English
Description
"Heralded as America's most quintessentially modern city, Chicago has attracted the gaze of journalists, novelists, essayists, and scholars as much as any city in the nation. And, yet, few historians have attempted big-picture narratives of the city's transformation over the twentieth century. Chicago on the Make traces the evolution of the city's politics, culture, and economy as it grew from an unruly tangle of rail yards, slaughterhouses, factories,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties ... Enter a slick, smooth-talking, charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz, who enticed hundreds of people ... to invest as much as $30 million--upwards of $400 million today--in phantom timberland and nonexistent oil wells in Panama ... When Leo's scheme finally collapsed in 1923, he vanished, and the Chicago state's attorney, a man whose...
Author
Series
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
167 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Martin Preib is an officer in the Chicago Police Department--a beat cop whose first assignment as a rookie policeman was working on the wagon that picks up the dead. This book chronicles the outer and inner lives of both a Chicago cop and the city. It recounts how Preib navigates the tenuous labyrinths of race and class in the urban metropolis.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
294 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On March 2, 1908, nineteen-year-old Lazarus Averbuch, a recent Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe to Chicago, knocked on the front door of the house of George Shippy, the chief of Chicago police. When Shippy came to the door, Averbuch offered him what he said was an important letter. Instead of taking the letter, Shippy shot Averbuch twice, killing him. When Shippy released a statement casting Averbuch as a would-be anarchist assassin and agent...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of Jane Addams, the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, who transformed a poor neighborhood in Chicago by opening up her house as a community center."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
xiv, 302 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described in Freakonomics. This is the full story of how Venkatesh managed to gain entre?e into the gang, what he learned, and how his method revolutionized the academic establishment. When first-year grad student Venkatesh walked into one of Chicago's most notorious housing projects, he was looking for people...
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
94 p. : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A graphic novel based on the true story of Robert "Yummy" Sandifer, an eleven-year old African American gang member from Chicago who shot a young girl and was then shot by his own gang members"--Provided by publisher.
10) City so real
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 330 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award nominated filmmaker Steve James' fascinating and complex portrait of contemporary Chicago delivers a deep, multifaceted look into the soul of a quintessentially American city, set against the backdrop of its history-making 2019 mayoral election, and the tumultuous 2020 summer of COVID-19 and social upheaval following the police killing of George Floyd.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Flatiron Books edition.
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Now a documentary narrated by Common, produced by Grant Hill, Dwyane Wade, and 9th Wonder, from filmmaker Mary Mazzio The moving true story of a group of young men growing up on Chicago's West side who form the first all-black high school rowing team inthe nation, and in doing so not only transform a sport, but their lives. Growing up on Chicago's Westside in the 90's, Arshay Cooper knows the harder side of life. The street corners are full of gangs,...
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