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Page authored: 1 July 2000

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· Davarian L. Baldwin, Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2007)

· Georg Leidenberger, Chicago's Progressive Alliance: Labor And the Bid for Public Streetcars (Northern Illinois Univ. Press, 2006)

· Jeffery S. Adler, First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt: Homicide in Chicago, 1875-1920 (Harvard Univ. Press, 2006)

· Suellen Hoy, Good Hearts: Catholic Sisters in Chicago's Past (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2006)

· Ann Durkin Keating, Chicagoland: City and Suburbs in the Railroad Age (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2005)

· Timothy B. Spears, Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and the City, 1871-1919 (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2005)

· James R. Grossman, ed., The Encyclopedia of Chicago (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2004)