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Summary: "The bestselling author of White Collar Girl and What the Lady Wants explores one woman's journey of self-discovery set against the backdrop of a musical and social revolution. In the middle of the twentieth century, the music of the Mississippi Delta arrived in Chicago, drawing the attention of entrepreneurs like the Chess brothers. Their label, Chess Records, helped shape that music into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSKlise, James
Summary: While running a con in 1934 Chicago, sixteen-year-old Joe splits his time between Eddie, a handsome flirt, and Raymond, a carefree rich kid who shows Joe the queer life of the big city, but as danger closes in, Joe must decide who he wants to be before disappearing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KLICline-Ransome, Lesa
Summary: When nine-year-old Clem's father dies in the Port Chicago Disaster he is forced to navigate his family's losses and strunggles in 1940's Chicago.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CLICline-Ransome, Lesa
Summary: Raised by his grandparents, first in Mississippi then in Wisconsin, ten-year-old Lymon moves to Chicago in 1945 to live with the mother he never knew, while yearning for his father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CLICunningham, Avery
Summary: "An epic love story that explores the American Dream between the monolith of Jim Crow, the inflexible world of the original Black upper class, and the violence of 1920s Chicago"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Avenue 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC CUNRosen, Renee.
Summary: Vera Abramowitz is determined to leave her gritty childhood behind and live a more exciting life, one that her mother never dreamed of. As the ultimate flapper, Vera captures the attention of a handsome nightclub owner and a sexy gambler. On their arms, she gains entr©♭e into a world filled with bootleg bourbon, wailing jazz and money to burn. But when the good times come to an end, Vera...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSMorrill, Stephanie
Summary: When her best friend Lydia disappears, Piper Sail goes searching for answers in the dark underbelly of 1924 Chicago, uncovering deep corruption that may lead back to her affluent neighborhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MORCox, Michelle.
Summary: "A spiritualist, an insane asylum, a lost little girl. . . When Clive, anxious to distract a depressed Henrietta, begs Sergeant Frank Davis for a case, he is assigned to investigating a seemingly boring affair: a spiritualist woman operating in an abandoned schoolhouse on the edge of town who is suspected of robbing people of their valuables. What begins as an open and shut case becomes more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Cox 2020Hannigan, Kate
Summary: When Mae's Aunt Willa and Aunt Jane, both pilots, are kidnapped by evil Metallic Falcon, Josie, Mae, and Akiko, the Infinity Trinity, pursue them from Chicago to Sweetwater, Texas, to Paris, France.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HANMiley, Mary
Summary: "Summer, 1924. Young widow Maddie Pastore has been working for fraudulent spiritual medium Madame Carlotta for nearly a year - if 'work' you could call it. Investigating Carlotta's clients, and attending seances as her shill, keeps Maddie and her young son Tommy fed and clothed, and she's grown to love the kind, well-meaning spiritualist like family. Still, Maddie - estranged from her abusive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILCline-Ransome, Lesa
Summary: Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CLITarshis, Lauren
Summary: "Robbed on the train platform as soon as he arrives in the city, eleven-year-old Oscar Starling soon finds himself in the middle of the Great Chicago Fire when he chases after his thief, who is herself in need of rescue." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC TARSummary: The 1960s was defined by a common effort to fight against injustice. Mike Gray, a Chicago filmmaker, used his camera to document the politics of the streets from the riots in the social upheaval, to the rising of two prolific groups fighting prejudice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Facets Video 2007