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Drell, Adrienne, ed., and the Chicago Sun Times 20th Century Chicago: 100 Years, 100 Voices Sports Publishing, 1999. Perspectives on Chicago from the time of the Columbian Exposition to the early 1990s, by some of Chicago's most illustrious personalities.

Grimshaw, William J. Bitter Fruit: Black Politics and the Chicago Machine, 1931-1991. University of Chicago Press, 1992, 1995. How Chicago's political machine affected the black community.

Kenney, William Howland. Chicago Jazz: A Cultural History, 1904-1930. Oxford University Press, 1993. History of the music of Chicago's South Side.

Miller, Donald L. City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America. Simon & Schuster, 1996. History of 19th-century Chicago.

Rivlin, Gary. Fire on the Prairie: Chicago's Harold Washington and the Politics of Race. Holt, 1992. The struggle between the white political machine and a growing black population.

Royko, Mike Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago Rpt. ed. New American Library, 1988. The classic biography of Chicago's best-known mayor, by a lengendary Chicago journalist.

Sawislak, Karen. Smoldering City: Chicagoans and the Great Fire, 1871-1874. University of Chicago Press, 1995. Social and political history of the effects of the fire.

Sinkevitch, Alice, ed. AIA Guide to Chicago. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993. Geographically arranged guide to Chicago architecture.

Spinney, Robert G. City of Big Shoulders: History of Chicago Northern Illinois University Press, 2000. A concise, readable one-volume history emphasizing key dates, people, and developments.

Warren, Lynne, and Jeff Abell. Art in Chicago, 1945-1995. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1996. Illustrated social history of the development of the arts in Chicago.

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