Our summer trip to Chicago was recently showcased in a recent photo-tour of some of the city's lakeside parks. Today we offer a short reading list in no particular order.
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America - Erik Larson
- Constructing Chicago - Daniel M. Bluestone
- Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West - William Cronon
- "Chicago Waters" (article) - Susan Power
- Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago - Eric Klinenberg
- "People and the River: Perception and Use of Chicago Waterways for Recreation" (report) - Paul H. Gobster and Lynne M. Westphal
- Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960 - Arnold R. Hirsch
- Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto, 1890-1920 - Allan H. Spear
- The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
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