Gangland Chicago : Criminality and Lawlessness in the Windy City 9781442231962, 9781442231955

Brown in the Windy City: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago 9780226244280

Brown in the Windy Cityis the first history to examine the migration and settlement of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in pos

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Chicago. The Wonder City

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Chicago in Stone and Clay: A Guide to the Windy City's Architectural Geology 9781501765070

Chicago in Stone and Clay explores the interplay between the city's most architecturally significant sites, the mat

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Sailing in windy weather 9780877422358

Richard Henderson explains the strategies, tactics, and techniques for getting the most out of windy weather sailing in

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American Mafia: Chicago : True Stories of Families Who Made Windy City History [1 ed.] 9781493006045, 9780762778447

Everyone knows stories about the American Mafia and its varied forms of crime, from racketeering to stock manipulation t

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City Creatures: Animal Encounters in the Chicago Wilderness 9780226289298

We usually think of cities as the domain of humans—but we are just one of thousands of species that call the urban lands

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Sun Ra's Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City 9780226732244

Sun Ra (1914–93) was one of the most wildly prolific and unfailingly eccentric figures in the history of music. Renowned

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History of Chicago: A Captivating Guide to the People and Events that Shaped the Windy City’s History (U.S. States)

Explore the Captivating History of Chicago Free History BONUS Inside! Founded as a tiny, temporary settlement, Chicago b

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The Third City: Chicago and American Urbanism 9780226042954

Our traditional image of Chicago—as a gritty metropolis carved into ethnically defined enclaves where the game of machin

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Activists in City Hall: The Progressive Response to the Reagan Era in Boston and Chicago 9780801460111

In 1983, Boston and Chicago elected progressive mayors with deep roots among community activists. Taking office as the R

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