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Fleming, Candace

Summary: How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child ... and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLE

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLE

Summary: Chicago's courageous medical heroes continue to confront the city's most challenging medical cases in Season Seven of the emotionally charged drama series from Emmy-winning executive producer Dick Wolf. This season, Dr. Will Halstead finds his career at risk after his cover-up of a serious ethics violation; Dr. Daniel Charles continues to provide outstanding psychiatric insight; Sharon Goodwin...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2022

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CHI

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV CHI

Summary: Executive producer Dick Wolf delivers the latest installment of the compelling Chicago franchise, an emotional thrill ride through the day-to-day chaos of the city's most explosive hospital and the courageous team of doctors, nurses, and staff who hold it together. Crossing paths with familiar faces from Chicago P.D. and Chicago Fire, this third team of Chicago heroes take on cases inspired by...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV CHI

Summary: From acclaimed Chicago filmmaking collective Kartemquin Films comes a collection of three important labor stories of the 1970's. These films not only allowed the workers and their union to tell their compelling stories but they also affected the course of events for each union. -- container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Facets Video 2006

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LAB

Summary: Dr. Will Halstead balances the stress as the ER's supervising attending physician with his complicated relationship with Dr. Natalie Manning, an attending physician in emergency pediatrics. Newly remarried, Dr. Daniel Charles remains he Sherlock Holmes of psychiatry. Former Navy flight surgeon Dr. Ethan Choi brings his battlefield skills to the front lines of Chicago's busiest ER, the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2020

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ch 5

Summary: Continues to chronicle the daily life-and-death battles of Chicago's elite medical professionals as they navigate challenging medical emergencies and intense personal drama. In last season's cliffhanger finale, Dr. Will Halstead got down on one knee and proposed to Dr. Natalie Manning, but will the two ever make it down the aisle?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2019

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Lekas, Gerry

Summary: "This isn't your average travel book--and these aren't your average tourist destinations! Take a wild ride through hidden Windy City history--often dark, sometimes inexplicable, and occasionally glamorous. Meet the gangsters, ghosts, serial killers and celebrities that only Chicago could produce. This journey into eclectic Chicago lore includes: 19 spine-tingling creepy sites (Resurrection...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Black Lyon Publishing, LLC 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.311 LEK

Summary: Depicts day-to-day lives of the doctors and nurses of Chicago's most cutting-edge trauma center.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CHI

Summary: Chicago's leading medical heroes return to help save lives in Season 8 of the pulse-pounding and emotional medical drama from Emmy Awardʼ-winning executive producer Dick Wolf. This season, Dr. Will Halstead deals with a medical supply chain shortage; Dr. Daniel Charles remains at the forefront of psychiatric care; Sharon Goodwin safeguards quality care in the face of fiscal scrutiny; Dr. Ethan...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2023

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Cox, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2020

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Cox 2020

Jefferson, Margo

Summary: "At once incendiary and icy, mischievous, and provocative, celebratory and elegiac, a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author's rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned to distance itself from whites and the black generality, while tirelessly measuring itself against both. Born in 1947 in upper-crust black Chicago--her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JEFFERSON, MARGO JEF

Summary: Combating the city's most heinous crimes, the priority of Detective Sergeant Hank Voight and his intelligence team has always been to protect their great city, bringing criminals to justice by any means necessary. Facing a new day and age in Chicago, Police are under siege and under a microscope. With police reform in full swing, the team is forced to navigate treacherous conditions in their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018

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Summary: Kasper Carr is a master thief, targeting businesses in the Chicago area. He stakes out fresh opportunities in front of a documentary film crew, which gradually becomed complicit in his crimes. As the director and producer become entangled in the allure of their fascinating subject and the legal ramifications of their actions, Carr pursues a series of larger-scale and more dangerous jobs. All...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Indie Films 2007

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF STR

Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi

Summary: "At the heart of the story are two teenagers: Marshal Mariot, an introverted video gamer and bike rider, and Frankie Paul, who leaves foster care to direct his cousin's drug business while he's in prison. Frankie devises a plan to attack Marshall and his friends--it is his best chance to showcase his toughness and win respect for his crew. Catching wind of the plan, Marshall and his friends...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.106 VEN

Summary: 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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Facets Video 2007

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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AME

Summary: Cheaper by the dozen: Tom and Kate Baker have made many sacrifices in their professional lives in order to raise their 12 children. When Tom is offered a job as a Division I college football coach, he moves the entire pack to a suburb in Chicago. This move shakes up the entire family, but when Kate's memoirs get published, she takes off on a book tour. The lack of parental guidance creates...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD CHE

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Cheaper

Dams, Jeanne M.

Summary: June, 1925. Elizabeth Fairchild lives a quiet life in genteel Oak Park Village, Illinois. There, she forms a close friendship with gentle Mr Anthony. But tragedy strikes when Mr Anthony is found stabbed to death in the alley behind his shop. Why would anyone murder a mild-mannered antiques dealer? Could it have something to do with the mysterious customer who bought a gold pocket watch from Mr...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DAM

Summary: The events in one day of a young man who decides to cut school and head out on the town with his girlfriend and best friend.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY FER

Summary: For the first time in years the entire Rodriguez clan comes home to Chicago to celebrate Christmas where traditions will be celebrated. During the course of this eventful week they will celebrate one member's safe return from Iraq, secrets will be revealed, old resentments forgotten, each family member will learn something about themselves and each other, and the healing power of laughter will...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NOT

Summary: Under the resolute command of Sergeant Hank Voight, the elite intelligence unit continues their relentless fight to take down the city's most dangerous criminals. But just how far is the squad willing to go to achieve justice and protect their own?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2021

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CHI

Summary: At the helm of the Intelligence Unit is Sergeant Hank Voight, a man not against crossing legal and ethical lines to ensure the safety of the men and women of the Chicago Police Department's District 21 who put it all on the line to serve and protect the security of the city he loves.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2014

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CHI

Jobb, Dean

Summary: "It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties ... Enter a slick, smooth-talking, charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz, who enticed hundreds of people ... to invest as much as $30 million--upwards of $400 million today--in phantom timberland and nonexistent oil wells in Panama ... When Leo's scheme finally collapsed in 1923,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KORETZ, LEO ROB

Jobb, Dean

Summary: It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. As Model Ts rumbled down Michigan Avenue, gang war shootings announced Al Capone's rise to underworld domination. Bedecked partygoers thronged to the Drake Hotel's opulent banquet rooms, corrupt politicians held court in thriving speakeasies, and the frenzy of stock market...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.6 Jobb

Algren, Nelson

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 1999

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALG

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