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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 731 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.00 — 770,595 ratings — published 2003
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 201 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.68 — 242,422 ratings — published 1984
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.78 — 156,275 ratings — published 1906
The Great Believers (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.30 — 176,713 ratings — published 2018
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 174 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,432,194 ratings — published 2011
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
by (shelved 172 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,868,741 ratings — published 2003
Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul (Hardcover)
by (shelved 162 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.63 — 13,280 ratings — published 2007
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.04 — 106,145 ratings — published 1940
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.13 — 764,709 ratings — published 2016
Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,173 ratings — published 1971
There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 125 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.30 — 16,233 ratings — published 1991
Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
by (shelved 125 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.97 — 385,405 ratings — published 2000
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,220,179 ratings — published 2018
City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,741 ratings — published 1996
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,127 ratings — published 2016
Chicago: City on the Make (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,147 ratings — published 1951
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,637 ratings — published 1991
City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.66 — 3,429 ratings — published 2012
Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,502 ratings — published 2018
The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.51 — 1,467 ratings — published 2012
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
by (shelved 88 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,153,484 ratings — published 2013
Hello Beautiful (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 85 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.13 — 564,356 ratings — published 2023
Sister Carrie (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.78 — 42,035 ratings — published 1900
The Coast of Chicago: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,734 ratings — published 1990
The Adventures of Augie March (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.83 — 19,046 ratings — published 1953
A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.85 — 113,081 ratings — published 1959
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
by (shelved 83 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,638,885 ratings — published 2012
Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, #2)
by (shelved 83 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.97 — 215,079 ratings — published 2001
Last Summer on State Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.21 — 12,450 ratings — published 2022
An American Summer (Audio CD)
by (shelved 82 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.31 — 5,020 ratings — published 2019
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 80 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,202 ratings — published 2018
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.48 — 119,631 ratings — published 2010
Will Grayson, Will Grayson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.69 — 413,955 ratings — published 2010
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.07 — 25,796 ratings — published 2008
Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, #3)
by (shelved 70 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.13 — 181,306 ratings — published 2001
Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.63 — 10,521 ratings — published 2021
Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago (Crown Journeys)
by (shelved 68 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,295 ratings — published 2004
Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)
by (shelved 67 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.26 — 163,905 ratings — published 2002
Division Street: America (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.17 — 706 ratings — published 1966
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.00 — 85,171 ratings — published 2017
American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.15 — 946 ratings — published 2000
The Man with the Golden Arm (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,309 ratings — published 1949
The Shining Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.54 — 54,834 ratings — published 2013
Proven Guilty (The Dresden Files, #8)
by (shelved 62 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.39 — 130,662 ratings — published 2006
Indemnity Only (V.I. Warshawski, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.90 — 19,648 ratings — published 1982
Turn Coat (The Dresden Files, #11)
by (shelved 61 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.44 — 113,495 ratings — published 2009
Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)
by (shelved 61 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.43 — 118,601 ratings — published 2008
The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers who Inspired Chicago (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.64 — 5,003 ratings — published 2010
Dead Beat (The Dresden Files, #7)
by (shelved 60 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.41 — 136,153 ratings — published 2005
Chicago: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.81 — 442 ratings — published 2009
“The city divided by the river is further divided by racial and lingual differences.”
― Chicago: City on the Make
― Chicago: City on the Make
“I heard Mr. Ingersoll many years ago in Chicago. The hall seated 5,000 people; every inch of standing-room was also occupied; aisles and platform crowded to overflowing. He held that vast audience for three hours so completely entranced that when he left the platform no one moved, until suddenly, with loud cheers and applause, they recalled him. He returned smiling and said: 'I'm glad you called me back, as I have something more to say. Can you stand another half-hour?' 'Yes: an hour, two hours, all night,' was shouted from various parts of the house; and he talked on until midnight, with unabated vigor, to the delight of his audience. This was the greatest triumph of oratory I had ever witnessed. It was the first time he delivered his matchless speech, 'The Liberty of Man, Woman, and Child'.
I have heard the greatest orators of this century in England and America; O'Connell in his palmiest days, on the Home Rule question; Gladstone and John Bright in the House of Commons; Spurgeon, James and Stopford Brooke, in their respective pulpits; our own Wendell Phillips, Henry Ward Beecher, and Webster and Clay, on great occasions; the stirring eloquence of our anti-slavery orators, both in Congress and on the platform, but none of them ever equalled Robert Ingersoll in his highest flights.
{Stanton's comments at the great Robert Ingersoll's funeral}”
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I have heard the greatest orators of this century in England and America; O'Connell in his palmiest days, on the Home Rule question; Gladstone and John Bright in the House of Commons; Spurgeon, James and Stopford Brooke, in their respective pulpits; our own Wendell Phillips, Henry Ward Beecher, and Webster and Clay, on great occasions; the stirring eloquence of our anti-slavery orators, both in Congress and on the platform, but none of them ever equalled Robert Ingersoll in his highest flights.
{Stanton's comments at the great Robert Ingersoll's funeral}”
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