Incoming Resources
- Smoldering city, Chicagoans and the Great Fire, 1871-1874, Karen Sawislak
- Chaos, creativity, and culture, a sampling of Chicago in the twentieth century, Kenan Heise
- Building the city of spectacle, Mayor Richard M. Daley and the remaking of Chicago, Costas Spirou and Dennis R. Judd
- Chicago, creating new traditions, by Perry Duis
- Chicago, Studs Terkel
- Chicago, a historical guide to the neighborhoods, the Loop and South Side, Glen E. Holt and Dominic A. Pacyga
- Grant Park, the evolution of Chicago's front yard, Dennis H. Cremin
- Chicago: a chronological & documentary history, 1784-1970., Compiled and edited by Howard B. Furer
- City of the century, the epic of Chicago and the making of America, Donald Miller
- Great American city, Chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect, Robert J. Sampson
- The Chicago River, a natural and unnatural history, Libby Hill
- Grafters and Goo Goos, corruption and reform in Chicago, 1833-2003, James L. Merriner
- Urban disorder and the shape of belief, the Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket bomb, and the model town of Pullman, Carl Smith
- Al Capone and the 1933 World's Fair, the end of the gangster era in Chicago, William Elliott Hazelgrove
- Old Chicago houses, by John Drury
- Chicago, city of the century, a co-production of WGBH Boston and WTTW Chicago in association with the Chicago Historical Society for American Experience ; produced, written and directed by Austin Hoyt
- Chicago; a personal history of America's most American city
- The Fox River Valley and Chain O' Lakes, with Geoffrey Baer ; produced by Dan Protess ; Window to the World Communications, Inc
- Nature's metropolis, Chicago and the Great West, William Cronon
- Nature's metropolis, Chicago and the Great West, William Cronon
- Chicago, a biography, Dominic A. Pacyga
- Richard Nickel, dangerous years : what he saw and what he wrote, written, edited, designed, and produced by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams
- Never a city so real, a walk in Chicago, Alex Kotlowitz
- High-risers, Cabrini-Green and the fate of American public housing, Ben Austen ; designed by Fritz Metsch ; maps, Robert Philip Gordon
- A history of Chicago, by Bessie Louise Pierce
- King David and boss Daley, the Black Disciples, Mayor Daley, and Chicago on the edge, Lance Williams
- Chicago, growth of a metropolis, Harold M. Mayer and Richard C. Wade ; with the assistance of Glen E. Holt ; cartography by Gerald F. Pyle
- A wild kind of boldness, the Chicago history reader, edited by Rosemary K. Adams ; foreword by Studs Terkel
- Chicago days, 150 defining moments in the life of a great city, by the staff of the Chicago Tribune ; edited by Stevenson Swanson ; foreword by Howard A. Tyner
- City of big shoulders, a history of Chicago, Robert G. Spinney
- Millennium Park, creating a Chicago landmark, Timothy J. Gilfoyle ; in association with the Chicago History Museum
- Rust belt Chicago, an anthology, edited by Martha Bayne