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20 Years at Hull House
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Jane Addams |
Jane Addams's narrative of life in an immigrant urban neighborhood provides students with an introduction to the issues of the Progressive era and the tenets of social activism. This new teaching edi… |
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Fortissimo
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Murray, William |
Journeys inside the world of opera to follow twelve young singers taking part in the Lyric Opera of Chicago's training program, the Opera Center for American Artists. |
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Cold Days
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James Marsters,Jim Butcher |
Following his death by a mystery assailant, Harry Dresden, Winter Knight to Mab, the Queen of Air and Darkness, must gather his friends and allies, prevent the annihilation of countless innocents, an… |
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Finding Langston
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Lesa Cline-Ransome |
When 11-year-old Langston s mother dies in 1946, he and his father leave rural Alabama for Chicago s brown belt. It s lonely in the small apartment with just the two of them, and at school Langston i… |
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Renaissance jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection
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Art Institute of Chicago |
"This issue focuses on the museum's Alsdorf Collection of Renaissance jewelry, which comprises a splendid array of secular and religious jewels produced in workshops in England, France, Spain, German… |
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L.O.S.S. Last organized street soujas
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Solomon "Cheesmon" Montagueo |
"Chicago and Rockford, Illinois, have been taken over by a murderous drug dealing cartel led by the mysterious "Go-Rilla Duke", whose mission is to destroy communities. Go-Rilla Duke uses a vicious c… |
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A Day Late and a Dollar
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READER TO BE CONFIRMED TERRY MCMILLAN,Ma. Dolores Bueno Camejo,Terry McMillan |
"Las Vegas, 1994. The Prices are introduced by Viola, the family's outspoken matriarch: Her husband, Cecil, has shut the door behind him for the last time; and their four adult kids, scattered across… |
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Chicago
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James E. Davis,Sharryl Davis Hawke,Davis, James E. |
Explores the history, cultural heritage, demographics, geography, and economic and natural resources of Chicago. |
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Work and Community in the Jungle
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James R. Barrett |
Chicago's packinghouse workers were not the hopeless creatures depicted by Upton Sinclair in "The Jungle", but active agents in the early twentieth century transformation that swept urban industrial … |
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Frommer's Chicago
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Elizabeth Canning Blackwell |
Provides information on where to stay and eat, what to do and see, combined with comments and advice on the city and its attractions. |
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Point of View
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Edward H. Levi |
Edward H. Levi served the University of Chicago for most of his professional life, as a professor, dean of the law school, provost, and eventually president. Gathered here are fourteen talks he deliv… |
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