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Bibliography of Chicago history

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This is a bibliography of selected publications on the history of Chicago. For most topics, the easiest place to start is Janice L. Reiff, et al. eds. The Encyclopedia of Chicago (2004), which has thorough coverage by leading scholars in 1120pp of text and many illustrations. It does not include biographies. It is online free.

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  • Reiff, Janice L. Ann Durkin Keating and James R. Grossman, eds. The Encyclopedia of Chicago (2004) thorough coverage by scholars in 1120pp online free
  • Abu-Lughod, Janet L. New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities (U of Minnesota Press, 1999), Compares the three cities in terms of geography, economics and race from 1800 to 1990
  • Gustaitis, Joseph. Chicago's Greatest Year, 1893: The White City and the Birth of a Modern Metropolis (2013)
  • Gustaitis, Joseph. Chicago Transformed: World War I and the Windy City (2016).
  • Longstreet, Stephen. Chicago: An Intimate Portrait of People, Pleasures, and Power, 1860-1919. (1973). 547 pp. popular
  • Miller, Donald L. City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America (1997), popular epic; excerpt and text search
  • Pacyga, Dominic A. Chicago: A Biography (2011), 472pp; detailed history by a scholar, based on secondary sources. excerpt and text search
  • Pierce, Bessie Louise. A History of Chicago, Volume I: The Beginning of a City 1673-1848 (1937; excerpt and text search vol 1; Volume II: From Town to City 1848-1871 (1940); Volume III: The Rise of a Modern City, 1871-1893 (1957) (excerpt and text search vol 3; the major scholarly history
  • Sawyers, June Skinner. Chicago Portraits (2nd ed. Northwestern University Press, 2012), 250 short biographies
  • Spinney, Robert G. City of Big Shoulders: A History of Chicago (2000), popular epic; excerpt and text search

    • Pre-1871

  • Fehrenbacher, Don E. Chicago Giant: A Biography of "Long John" Wentworth. (1957). 278 pp. online edition
  • Karamanski, Theodore J. Rally 'Round the Flag: Chicago and the Civil War. (1993). 292 pp.
  • Pierce, Bessie Louise. A History of Chicago, Volume I: The Beginning of a City 1673-1848 (1937; reprint 2007); Volume II: From Town to City 1848-1871 (reprint 2007)
  • Quaife, Milo Milton. Chicago and the Old Northwest, 1673-1835. (1913, reprint (2001). 480 pp.
  • Joseph Sabin, ed. (1871). "Chicago". Bibliotheca Americana. 4. New York. OCLC 13972268. 

    • Education

  • (Japanese) Nakano, Shinji (中野 真志; Aichi University of Education). "Classes at Public Schools of Chicago and at Dewey's Laboratory School" (Archive; シカゴの公立諸学校とデューイ実験学校における授業). 生活科・総合的学習研究 7, 15-22, 2009-03-31. 愛知教育大学生活科教育講座. See profile at AUE Repository. See profile at CiNii.
  • (Japanese) Shinohara, Takeshi (篠原 岳司 Shinohara Takeshi; 北海道大学大学院:日本学術振興会). "The Policy for Successful Academic Achievement and the Plan for School Improvement in Chicago Public Schools : Dynamism of the Theory and Practice of Distributed Leadership(IV Research Papers)" (Archive, 現代シカゴ学区における学力向上政策と学校改善計画 : 分散型リーダーシップの理論と「実践」(IV 投稿論文)). 日本教育政策学会年報 (15), 153-166, 2008-06-30. Japan Academic Society for Educational Policy (日本教育政策学会). See profile at CiNii which includes the English abstract.
  • (Japanese) Takei, Hiroshi (武井 寛). "Desegregating Public Schools in the Northern Cities: In the Case of 1960s Chicago" (Archive; 北部都市における公立学校の人種隔離撤廃運動 : 一九六〇年代のシカゴを事例にして). Hitotsubashi Bulletin of Social Sciences (一橋大学大学院社会学研究科), Hitotsubashi University. #5, 213-239, 2008-12. Abstract available in English (Archive). See profile at HERMES-IR (Hitotsubashi University Repository). See profile at CiNii.
  • (Japanese) Yamashita, Kouichi (山下 晃一; Kyoto University). "THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE LOCAL SCHOOL COUNCILS SYSTEM IN CHICAGO SCHOOL REFORM(II. RESEARCH REPORTS)" (Archive; シカゴ学校改革における学校評議会制度の意義 : RollowとBrykの議論を手がかりとして(II 研究報告)). Bulletin of the JEAS (日本教育行政学会年報) (23), 135-146, 1997-10-17. The Japan Educational Administration Society (日本教育行政学会). See profile at CiNii.

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