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Africobra: Messages to the People (Hardcover)
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Jeffreen Hayes
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The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther (Paperback)
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Jeffrey Haas
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The Battle of Lincoln Park: Urban Renewal and Gentrification in Chicago (Paperback)
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Daniel Kay Hertz
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The Beauty of Your Face: A Novel (Paperback)
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Sahar Mustafah
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Brown in the Windy City: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago (Historical Studies of Urban America) (Paperback)
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Lilia Fernández
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The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook (Paperback)
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Chicago Exposed: Defining Moments from the Chicago Sun-Times Photo Archive (Hardcover)
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Richard Cahan
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Chicanas of 18th Street: Narratives of a Movement from Latino Chicago (Latinos in Chicago and Midwest) (Paperback)
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Leonard G. Ramirez
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Cristina Vital
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Citizen Illegal (Paperback)
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José Olivarez
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Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells, Second Edition (Paperback)
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Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win: Five Decades of Resistance in Chicago's Uptown Community (Paperback)
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Helen Shiller
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Energy Never Dies: Afro-Optimism and Creativity in Chicago (Paperback)
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Feels Right: Black Queer Women and the Politics of Partying in Chicago (Paperback)
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Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side (Paperback)
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The Great Believers: A Novel (Paperback)
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High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing (Paperback)
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The House on Mango Street (Vintage Contemporaries) (Paperback)
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Sandra Cisneros
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I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Paperback)
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Latina/o/x Education in Chicago: Roots, Resistance, and Transformation (Latinos in Chicago and Midwest) (Paperback)
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My Favorite Thing Is Monsters (Paperback)
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neckbone: visual verses (Hardcover)
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Once I Was Cool: Personal Essays (Paperback)
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Plague Years: A Doctor’s Journey through the AIDS Crisis (Hardcover)
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Ross A. Slotten, MD
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Timothy Stewart-Winter
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Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side (Second to None: Chicago Stories) (Paperback)
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The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service (Paperback)
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A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks (Paperback)
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Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood (Paperback)
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Who Is the City For?: Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago (Hardcover)
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Blair Kamin
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Lee Bey
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Wild Hundreds (Pitt Poetry Series) (Paperback)
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