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	Just Add Water: Making the City of Chicago By Renee Kreczmer
	Award-winning Chicago Public School teacher extraordinaire Renee Kreczmer turns the Chicago history materials she has created and refined over 18 years with the help of hundreds of third graders into a book that all Chicago children, their families, and teachers can use to learn local history in a fun, unforgettable way. Investigate creeks, prairies, forts, fires, world fairs, and much more to discover how the vibrant, modern city of Chicago came to be.

	Gold Coast Madam: The Secret Life of Rose Laws By Rose Laws and Dianna Harris
	The compelling personal story of the remarkable Rose Laws, who became known as the “Gold Coast Madam.” This autobiography takes readers from Rose’s youth in the hills of Tennessee through her retirement to Florida after serving time in prison after decades as Chicago's top agent for prostitutes. Having left a violent marriage and with her five children subsequently taken into a brutal orphanage, Laws was faced with proving she could earn enough to support her children before getting them back. She stumbled into friendships with mobsters, wealthy businessmen, and the agenting business, which she discovered she not only had a knack for, but she enjoyed. Eventually taking her business to Chicago's Gold Coast, downtown, and the Rush Street nightlife neighborhoods, Laws began to expand a client list that included local and national sports figures, actors, and politicians. Filled with the glamorous, gritty, and mundane details of running an illegal prostitution business, Gold Coast Madam is also a portrait of Chicago and some of its shadowy elements from the 1950s through the 1990s.

	What Would Jane Say? City-Building Women and a Tale of Two Chicagos By Janice Metzger
	Just in time for the Burnham Plan’s centennial, Janice Metzger digs into the 1909 Plan of Chicago, revealing not just what Burnham and the Commercial Club put into their master plan, but what they left out. What Would Jane Say? tells the tale of two approaches to city-building in the early 1900s and the people and ideas behind them. It also tells the story of what was created in Chicago and what could have been created. Metzger sets a detailed stage of Chicago at the turn of twentieth century—the players and the movements, the problems and the reform efforts, the conflicts and the possibilities—she takes readers into speculative chapters devoted to transportation, law, housing, neighborhood development, immigration, labor, health, and education. What would Jane Addams and her peers say if they had been involved in the Plan of Chicago? Using painstaking research, historical detail, and a pinch of imagination, Metzger thinks she has a pretty good idea…

	Rule 53: Capturing Hippies, Spies, Politicians, and Murderers in an American Courtroom By Andy Austin
	Rule 53: Capturing Hippies, Spies, Politicians, and Murderers in an American Courtroom is a vivid memoir by one of the country’s best visual chroniclers of courtroom proceedings. Austin’s gift for seeing essential details offers intimate glimpses of defendants like the Chicago 7 radicals; the Black Panthers and the El Rukns; serial killer John Wayne Gacy; and a parade of mobsters. In prose as deft and insightful as her sketches, she shares her portraits of the lawyers, judges, politicians, and others involved in cases she observed, salutes friends and colleagues, and shares personal experiences that influenced her unique perspective on local history in the making.

	The Politics of Place: A History of Zoning in Chicago By Joseph Schwieterman, Ph.D. and Dana Caspall
	Chicago is renowned for its distinctive skyline, its bustling Loop business district, and its diverse neighborhoods. How the face of Chicago came to be is a story of enterprise, ingenuity, opportunity—and zoning. Until now, however, there has not been a book that focuses on the important, often surprising, role of zoning in shaping the “The City that Works.”

	The Chicago River: A Natural and Unnatural History By Libby Hill
	Author Libby Hill brings together years of original research and the contributions of dozens of experts to tell the Chicago River's epic tale from its conception in prehistoric bedrock to the glorious rejuvenation it's undergoing today, and every exciting episode in between.

	On the Job: Behind the Stars of the Chicago Police Department By Daniel P. Smith
	The Chicago Police Department is a mythical and legendary law enforcement unit as well as a closed-door society. In On the Job: Behind the Stars of the Chicago Police Department, Daniel P. Smith draws the curtain to reveal the officers and their personal stories. Smith, an award-winning journalist and the product of a Chicago Police family, explores the work/life juxtaposition of the men and women—mothers and fathers, realists and idealists, cynics and consolers—who don the Chicago Police star.

	For Members Only: A History and Guide to Chicago's Oldest Private Clubs By Lisa Holton
	Have you ever walked past one of Chicago's illustrious private clubs and wondered how to get through its guarded doors? The task is somewhat easier said than done, as Lisa Holton reveals in her new book profiling Chicago's exclusive historic clubs. For those readers who aspire to membership themselves, For Members Only also includes a detailed appendix providing club statistics and facts.

	I Am a Teamster: A Short, Fiery Story of Regina V. Polk, Her Hats, Her Pets, Sweet Love, and the Modern-Day Labor Movement By Terry Spencer Hesser
	On Valentine’s Day, 1950, a beautiful and determined child was born with a birthmark between her eyebrows in the shape of half a heart. She spent the rest of her life living fully, caring deeply for those around her, and advocating for the things she believed in, particularly the dignity of all work and all workers. She recognized early the growing service and clerical sectors of the economy and the need to unionize this overlooked group of low-paid employees. An utterly compassionate and confident woman, she sparkled with excitement and mystery. Her intelligence and passion were formidable. She lived easily in a world of comfort and high culture as well as that of the streets, the workplace, and the tough, male-dominated union halls. Regina V. Polk was a Teamster. A warrior. A champion. A humanitarian. And the most remarkable American labor leader you haven’t heard of until now.

	From Lumber Hookers to the Hooligan Fleet: A Treasury of Chicago Maritime History By The Chicago Maritime Society
	Maritime history speaks of heroes and vagabonds, romance and commerce, technology and craftsmanship, lighthouses and shipwrecks, industrial giants and back-breaking labor, wartime vigilance and peacetime leisure, resource extraction and modern conservation, change and tradition. Established astride a primary portage linking the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River system, Chicago has a maritime story that comprises all this and more. Members of The Chicago Maritime Society have collected their best writings, photographs, and artifacts to share the tales of our waterways.

	Wrigley Field's Last World Series: The Wartime Chicago Cubs and the Pennant of 1945 By Charles N. Billington
	On the eve of World War II, baseball truly was America's national pastime. Little could anyone predict the changes and sacrifices that would be imposed on the sport during the early 1940s. As the war was coming to an end in 1945 and a jubilant mood was overtaking the country, baseball was back in full swing and the Chicago Cubs were on top of their game.

	A Chicago Tavern: A Goat, a Curse, and the American Dream By Rick Kogan
	In the summer of 1934, a baby goat fell off a truck, limped into a tavern owned by Greek immigrant William Sianis, and a Chicago icon was born. The Billy Goat Inn became a haven for newspaper reporters, policemen, politicians, and anyone else drawn to the hospitality and showmanship of hardworking “Billy Goat” Sianis and his often antic, uniquely comforting establishment.

	Finding Your Chicago Ancestors: A Beginner's Guide to Family History in the City and Cook County By Grace DuMelle
	Family historian Grace DuMelle provides the means to trace your Chicago connections like a pro. She shows you not just what to research, but how to research. Without wading through lots of preliminaries, choose any of the self-contained chapters that focus on the questions beginners most want answered and jump right in!

	Near West Side Stories: Struggles for Community in Chicago's Maxwell Street Neighborhood By Carolyn Eastwood
	Near West Side Stories: Struggles For Community in Chicago's Maxwell Street Neighborhood is a current and ongoing story of unequal power in Chicago. Four representatives of immigrant and migrant groups that have had a distinct territorial presence in the area--one Jewish, one Italian, one African-American, and one Mexican--reminisce fondly on life in the old neighborhood and tell of their struggles to save it and the 120-year-old Maxwell Street Market that was at its core.

	Graveyards of Chicago: The People, History, Art, and Lore of Cook County Cemeteries By Matt Hucke and Ursula Bielski
	Ever wonder where Al Capone is buried? How about Clarence Darrow? Muddy Waters? Harry Caray? Or maybe Brady Bunch patriarch Robert Reed? And what really lies beneath home plate at Wrigley Field? Graveyards of Chicago answers these and other cryptic questions as it charts the lore and lure of Chicago's ubiquitous burial grounds.

	The Golden Age of Chicago Children's Television By Ted Okuda and Jack Mulqueen
	At one time every station in Chicago--a maximum of five, until 1964--produced or aired some programming for children. From the late 1940s through the early 1970s, local television stations created a golden age of children's television unique in American broadcasting. Though the shows often operated under strict budgetary constraints, these programs were rich in imagination, inventiveness, and devoted fans.

	Chicago TV Horror Movie Shows: From Shock Theatre to Svengoolie By Ted Okuda and Mark Yurkiw
	Although the motion picture industry initially disparaged and feared television, by the late 1950s, studios saw the medium as a convenient dumping ground for thousands of films that had long been gathering dust in their vaults. As these films found their way to local TV stations, enterprising distributors grouped the titles by genre so programmers could showcase them accordingly. It was in this spirit that Chicago's tradition of TV horror movie shows was born. Ted Okuda and Mark Yurkiw's new book is the first comprehensive look these horror movie programs, from their inception in 1957 to the present.

	Great Chicago Fires: Historic Blazes that Shaped a City By David Cowan
	In 1916, poet Carl Sandburg wrote about a young girl who jumps to her death in a Chicago factory fire, attributing her tragic end to "the hand of God and the lack of fire escapes." Sadly, the lesson of Anna Imroth's untimely demise would go unheeded. Instead, thousands of times in Chicago and elsewhere, the circumstances of her loss would be repeated.