List of non-fiction about Chicago

* Bookseller's Art: Carl Kroch and Kroch’s and Brentano’s by John Cole ISBN 978-0844406244
* Chicago: Growth of a Metropolis by Harold M. Mayer & Richard C. Wade ISBN 0-226-51274-6
* Chicago: Then and Now by Elizabeth McNulty ISBN 1-57145-278-8
* Chicago Churches and Synagogues by George Lane ISBN 0-226-49560-4
* Chicago Days : 150 Defining Moments in the Life of a Great City by the Chicago Tribune ISBN 1-890093-04-1
* Chicago In and Around the Loop : Walking Tours of Architecture and History by Gerard R. Wolfe ISBN 0-07-142236-6
* Chicago Politics: Ward by Ward by David K. Fremon ISBN 0-253-31344-9
* The Chicago River: A Natural and Unnatural History by Libby Hill ISBN 1-893121-02-X
* City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America by Donald L. Miller ISBN 0-684-80194-9
* Daniel H. Burnham by Kristen Schaffer ISBN 0-8478-2533-7
* The Encyclopedia of Chicago ISBN 0-226-31015-9
* Forty Feet Below, The Story of Chicago's Freight Tunnels by Bruce Moffat ISBN 0-916374-54-8
* Grafters and Goo Goos: Corruption and Reform in Chicago, 1833-2003 by James L. Merriner ISBN 0-8093-2571-3
* The Great Chicago Fire: In Eyewitness Accounts and 70 Contemporary Photographs and Illustrations by David Lowe ISBN 0-486-23771-0
* Graveyards of Chicago by Matt Hucke and Ursula Bielski ISBN 0-9642426-4-8
* Great Chicago Fires: Historic Blazes That Shaped a City by David Cowan ISBN 1-893121-07-0
* Hands On Chicago by Kenan Heise & Mark Frazel ISBN 0-933893-28-0
* Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago by Eric Klinenberg ISBN 0-226-44321-3
* Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration by James R. Grossman ISBN 0-226-30995-9
* Lost Chicago by David Lowe ISBN 0-517-46888-3
* Masterpieces of Chicago Architecture by John Zukowsky & Martha Thorne ISBN 0-8478-2596-5
* Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West William Cronon ISBN 0-393-30873-1
* Sin in the Second City: Madames, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul by Karen Abbott ISBN 978-1-4000-6530-1
* The Sinking of the Eastland: America's Forgotten Tragedy by Jay Bonansinga ISBN 0-8065-2628-9
* The St. Valentine's Day Massacre: The Untold Story of the Gangland Bloodbath That Brought Down Al Capone by William J. Helmer & Arthur J. Bilek ISBN 1-58182-329-0
* Streetwise Chicago by Don Hayner & Tom McNamee ISBN 0-8294-0596-8
* There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz ISBN 0-385-26556-5
* Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, The Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman by Carl Smith ISBN 0-226-76416-8

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