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Summary: "Brick Body Kids Still Daydream is a searingly political record for systolic political times. It chronicles the life cycle of the Robert Taylor Homes, a housing project on the South side of Chicago that was demolished completely ten years ago. Families that had lived under the same roof for three generations were forced to scatter, condemned by bureaucrats and faceless cranes and public...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP OPESummary: Harry Dresden is a private detective who also happens to be a real wizard. Although he tries to be a regular guy, Harry finds himself helping the Chicago police solve inexplicable crimes and battle dark forces that lurk around the city streets. Harry deals in all matters of supernatural threats.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DRESummary: Larry is a small town sheriff who witnesses what he believes is a kidnapping and rushes to rescue the woman. The kidnappers turn out to be FBI agents assigned to protect her and deliver her to a big corporation corruption trial in Chicago. The agents, it turns out, are found to be on the take and are villains who are bent on killing her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WITShakey Jake.
Contents: Disc 1. Everything gonna be alright ; Hold that bus, conductor ; Strollin' the strip ; Respect me baby ; I will always love you ; Three times seven ; Farther on up the road ; A hard road to travel ; Save your money, baby ; Too hot to hold ; Long distance call ; Don't answer the door ; Love me baby ; Chains of love (Shakey Jake) ; The sky is falling ; Long distance operator ; I'm a free man ;...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Records 1996
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES CHISummary: Henry, a psychopathic drifter who has left a trail of bodies in his wake, settles for a while at the dilapidated Chicago apartment of ex-prison mate Otis. Into this toxic environment comes Otis's younger sister Becky, who's fleeing an abusive marriage and looking for a place to stay. Deflecting her brother's incestuous advances, Becky finds herself attracted to Henry and sees him as a potential...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY HENTarshis, Lauren
Summary: Oscar Starling never wanted to come to Chicago. But then Oscar finds himself not just in the heart of the big city but in the middle of a terrible fire! No one knows exactly how it began, but one thing is clear: Chicago is like a giant powder keg about to explode. An army of firemen is trying to help, but this fire is a ferocious beast that wants to devour everything in its path, including...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION TARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J SeriesTarshisAlikhan, Salima
Summary: Emmi, a German immigrant, is living in Chicago when the Great Fire breaks out on October 8, 1871, and, separated from her father, she finds herself with her neighbors, Cara and Seamus, braving the smoke and flames trying to escape the danger of the burning city, and searching for all their parents.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ALIWells, Junior
Contents: Snatch it back and hold it / Junior Wells (2:53) -- Ships on the ocean / Junior Wells (4:07) -- Good morning schoolgirl / Sonny Boy Williamson (3:50) -- Hound dog / Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller (2:12) -- In the wee hours / Bob Hilliard, David Mann (3:42) -- Hey lawdy mama (3:10) -- Hoodoo man blues / Junior Wells, Sonny Boy Williamson (2:49) -- Early in the morning / Traditional (4:44) -- We're...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1990
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES WELSummary: Members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred. Following the death of their patriarch, the Youngers await a life insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over how best to use the money.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018