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Summary: Infiltrating a burglary crew as part of a mission to identify corrupt police officers, Chicago private investigator Joe Kozmarski encounters unexpected challenges that take him from a spa club for couples to the gang-troubled streets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WITSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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Summary: Chicago Police Detective James Sherlock was CPD through-and-through. He thought he had seen it all-- until he went to the records center to see the case file for the murder of John Hughes. Seventeen years old when he was gunned down on Chicago's Southwest Side in 1976, Hughes's case had threads that led everywhere: Police corruption. Hints of the Chicago Outfit. A crooked judge. Even the belief...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2021
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLECorbitt, Michael.
Summary: The authors traces his life from juvenile delinquent to decorated Illinois Chief of Police who was also working for the Mob.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.1 CORCorbitt, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 CORSummary: 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?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV CHICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CHIParetsky, Sara
Summary: "Legendary detective V.I. Warshawski uncovers a nefarious conspiracy preying on Chicago's weak and vulnerable, in this thrilling novel from New York Times bestseller Sara Paretsky. On her way home from an all-night surveillance job, V.I. Warshawski is led by her dogs on a mad chase that ends when they discover a badly injured teen hiding in the rocks along Lake Michigan. The girl only regains...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M PARPatterson, James
Summary: "To Detective Billy Harney, the newest member of Chicago PD's elite strike force--Special Operations Section-- getting shot in the head, stalked by a state's attorney, and accused of murder by his fellow cops is all part of breaking a case. So when a drive-by shooting on the Chicago's west side turns political, he leads the way to a quick solve. But Harney's instincts--his father was once chief...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC PATSummary: Emmy-winning Executive Producer Dick Wolf delivers the gripping sixth season. The gritty police drama delves into the lives of the men and women of the Chicago Police Department's elite Intelligence Unit as they combat organized crime, drug trafficking, homicides and more on the tough streets of Chicago. Under the command of the tenacious Sergeant Hank Voight, the intelligence squad dishes out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV CHICopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ch 1Stone, Mary
Summary: Some storms destroy. Others clear a path. Military veteran Amelia Storm returns to her hometown of Chicago when her beloved police officer brother is killed in the line of duty. Now she is a special agent with the FBI. No longer a scared girl, she vows to avenge her brother and do what she can to end the city's deep wells of corruption. A television documentary puts a spotlight on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "After drinking too much at her bachelorette party, Maggie Trueheart wakes to find a stranger in her bed. To make matters worse, a phone call brings the devastating news that her friend Angie was murdered some time after they parted ways the night before. Kelly Delaney, who left the party early, is the first of Maggie's friends to face questions from Chicago homicide detective Ron O'Reilly....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OCODams, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DAMHarvey, Michael T.
Summary: Receiving a lucrative anonymous offer to track down an escaped criminal, private investigator Michael Kelly unwinds the past of the fugitive's wife, who harbors deeply complicated and dangerous reasons for standing by her husband.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARAlgren, Nelson
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALGSummary: Return to ground zero in the fight against Chicago crime in all 23 episodes of this critically acclaimed drama. In Season Three, Hank Voight's intelligence unit is in the final stretch of taking down a powerful kingpin when one of his detectives is severely beaten and kidnapped. In a race against time, Voight makes the difficult decision to bring back one of the disgraced former members of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: On her way home from an all-night surveillance job, V.I. Warshawski is led by her dogs on a mad chase that ends when they discover a badly injured teen hiding in the rocks along Lake Michigan. The girl only regains consciousness long enough to utter one enigmatic word. V.I. helps bring her to a hospital, but not long after, she vanishes before anyone can discover her identity. As V.I. attempts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC PARAlikhan, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ALIKonrath, J.A.
Summary: Jack is back and about to meet her match. When she wakes up in a storage locker, bound and gagged, she knows with chilling certainty who her abductor is. He's called 'Mr. K.' More than two hundred homicides have been attributed to him. He's the essence of evil. Jack has tangled with him twice in the past, and both times he managed to slip away. Now Jack will finally have a chance to confront...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KONSchaffhausen, Joanna
Summary: "Long Gone is the next thrilling installment in Joanna Schaffhausen's critically acclaimed Detective Annalisa Vega series. Chicago detective Annalisa Vega shattered her life, personally and professionally, when she turned in her ex-cop father for his role in a murder. Her family can't forgive her. Her fellow officers no longer trust her. So when detective Leo Hammond turns up dead in a bizarre...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHSummary: The determined men and women of the Chicago Police Department's elite Intelligence Unit continue their fight against crime in Season Ten of the action-packed police drama from executive producer Dick Wolf and the team behind the Chicago franchise. Sgt. Hank Voight leads a close-knit unit that includes Det. Jay Halstead, Officer Adam Ruzek, Officer Kim Burgess, Officer Kevin Atwater, Det. Hailey...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV CHITarshis, 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