Here's a short list of books that relate to Chicago -- especially Chicago history and arts.
art
Art for the People: The Rediscovery and Preservation of Progressive- and WPA-Era Murals in the Chicago Public Schools, 1904-1943, by Heather Becker
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history
Inspired by Nature: The Garfield Park Conservatory and Chicago's West Side, by Julia Sniderman Bachrach and Jo Ann Nathan
The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City, by Carl Smith
The Rise & Falll of the Dil Pickle: Jazz-Age Chicago's Wildest & Most Outrageously Creative Hobohemian Nightspot, edited by Franklin Rosemont
Twenty Years at Hull-House, by Jane Addams
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music
I Am the Blues, by Willie Dixon
Moanin' at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf, by James Segrest and Mark Hoffman
A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music, by George Lewis
Space Is the Place: The Life and Music of Sun Ra, by John Szwed
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fiction
The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan
Sin in the Second City, by Karen Abbott
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If you'd like to suggest that any other titles be included, please mention those in a comment, and I'd be happy to include those.
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I have this publication, great collection of art
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