Bøger i Second to None: Chicago Stories serien

Growing Up Chicago is a collection of coming-of-age stories written by Chicagoland authors that reflects the diversity of the city and its metropolitan area. Primarily memoir, the book asks, What characterizes a Chicago author?

Explores the significance of the Chicago Portage, one of the most important - and neglected - sites in early US history. A seven-mile-long strip of marsh connecting the Chicago and Des Plaines Rivers, the portage was inhabited by the earliest indigenous people in the Midwest and served as a major trade route for Native American tribes.

The definitive full-length biography of Jesse Binga, the first black banker in Chicago. Born into a large family in Detroit, Binga arrived in Chicago in 1892 in his late twenties with nothing. Through his wits and resourcefulness, he rose to wealth and influence as a real estate broker, and in 1908 he founded the first black-owned bank in Chicago.

The first book devoted to Chicago South Side's rich and unfairly ignored architectural heritage. With lively, insightful text and gallery-quality colour photographs by noted Chicago architecture expert Lee Bey, Southern Exposure documents the remarkable and largely unsung architecture of the South Side.

When Rocky Wirtz took over the Wirtz Corporation in 2007, including management of the Chicago Blackhawks, the fiercely beloved hockey team had fallen to a humiliating nadir. Rocky's resurrection of the team's fortunes was - publicly, at least - a feel-good tale of shrewd acumen. Behind the scenes, however, it would trigger a drama of Shakespearean proportions. The Breakaway reveals that untold story.

Brings together the work of a wide range of Chicago theatre companies to share strategies for cocreating theatrical performance as an ensemble. Each chapter offers a short history of a Chicago company, followed by detailed exercises that have been developed and used by that company to build ensemble and generate performances.