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EIGHT FORTY-EIGHT

A Chicago Birthday Book Bag

The Panel Craig Sautter President of the Society of Midland Authors, professor at DePaul University, and co-author of Inside the Wigwam Kenan Heise Historian and author of Chaos, Creativity and Culture: A Sampling of Chicago in the 20th Century Mary Dempsey Chicago Public Library Commissioner

The Books Books are listed in alphabetical order by title.
1001 Afternoons in Chicago Ben Hecht The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow As Others See Chicago Bessie Louise Pierce Barriers Burned Away E. P. Roe Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City St. Clair Drake and Horace A. Cayton Boss, Richard J. Daley of Chicago Mike Royko The Chicago Bungalow Dominic A. Pacyga and Charles Shanabruck, editors Chicago and Its Makers Felix Mendelsohn Chicago City of Neighborhoods: Histories and Tours Dominic A. Pacyga Chicago Growth of a Metropolis Harold Mayer & Richard Wade Chicago on Foot 4th edition Ira Bach Chicago Portraits: Biographies of 250 Famous Chicagoans June Skinner Sawyers Chicago: City on the Make Nelson Algren Chicago: Its History and Its Builders J. Seymour Currey Chicago’s Left Bank Alson J. Smith A Child of the Century Ben Hecht The Chicago River: A Natural and Unnatural History Libby Hill City Dogs Bill Brashler The City in a Garden: A Photographic History of Chicago's Parks Julia Sniderman Bachrach City of the Century: the Epic of Chicago and the Making of America Donald L. Miller	The Cliff Dwellers Henry Blake Fuller The Coast of Chicago Stuart Dybek Stuart Dybek makes his own appearance on Eight Forty-Eight in this interview>> Deadlines and Monkeyshines John J. McPhaul The Devil and the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America Erik Larson Division Street Studs Terkel A Dream of Kings Harry Mark Petrakis Gem of the Prairie: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld Herbert Asbury The Great Chicago Fire Robert Cromie History of Chicago A. T. Andreas. A History of Chicago Bessie Louise Pierce History of Cook County A. T. Andreas If Christ Came to Chicago W. T. Stead In the Castle of the Flynns: A Novel Michael Raleigh Inside the Wigwam: Chicago Presidential Elections 1860-1996 R. Craig Sautter and Edward M. Burke The Jungle Upton Lewis Knock on Any Door Willard Motley Little Caesar W. R. Burnett Lords of the Levy Lloyd Wendt and Herman Kogan Lost Chicago David Lowe. The Man with the Golden Arm Nelson Algren Memoirs of an American Citizen Robert Herrick Memory Mambo Achy Obejas	Native Son Richard Wright Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West William Cronon. The Old Bunch Meyer Levin Rogues, Rebels, and Rubber Stamps: The Politics of the Chicago City Council from 1863 to the Present Dick Simpson The Second City: Backstage at the World's Greatest Comedy Theater Sheldon Patinkin, Robert Klein, and Alan Arkin Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser Studs Lonigan: A Trilogy Comprising Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and Judgment Day James T. Farrell The Titan Theodore Dreiser Trumbull Park Frank London Brown Twenty Years at Hull-House Jane Addams Urban Art Chicago: A Guide to Community Murals, Mosaics, and Sculptures by Ivan Dee Olivia Gude A Useful Woman: The Early Life of Jane Addams Gioia Diliberto Wau Bun (The Early Days in the Northwest) Juliette Kinzie Wicked City: Chicago from Kenna to Capone Curt Johnson and R. Craig Sautter Windy City Sam Ross Windy City Wild: Chicago's Natural Wonders Robert Shaw, Jason Lindsey, and Bill Kurtis Years of Grace Margaret Ayer Barnes