Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction

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• The Bomb, by Frank Harris (HTML with commentary at Eldritch Press)
• The Efficiency Expert, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Gutenberg text)
• The Efficiency Expert (original magazine version), by Edgar Rice Burroughs (illustrated HTML at erblist.com)
• Erik Dorn, by Ben Hecht
  • PDF at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• The Fabulous Clipjoint, by Fredric Brown (HTML at munseys.com)
• Gullible's Travels, Etc., by Ring Lardner (HTML at Eldritch Press)
• The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair (Gutenberg text)
• Marching Men, by Sherwood Anderson (Gutenberg text)
• The Pit: A Story of Chicago, by Frank Norris (Gutenberg text)
• Pyramid Scheme, by Dave Freer and Eric Flint (multiple formats at freedoors.org)
• Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser
  • HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• Sister Carrie (New York: Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1900), by Theodore Dreiser (HTML here at Penn)
• Sister Carrie (restored text; Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981), by Theodore Dreiser, ed. by John C. Berkey, Alice M. Winters, James L. W. West, and Neda M. Westlake (HTML here at Penn)
• The Song of the Lark, by Willa Cather
  • HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• Sweet Clover: A Romance of the White City (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1895), by Clara Louise Burnham (HTML at Emory)
• Whiskey Sour (c2004), by Joe Konrath (PDF at jakonrath.com)
• Windy McPherson's Son, by Sherwood Anderson (Gutenberg text)
• With the Procession, by Henry Blake Fuller (Gutenberg text)

• The Bomb, by Frank Harris (HTML with commentary at Eldritch Press)

• Hardscrabble, Or, The Fall of Chicago: A Tale of Indian Warfare (New York: R.M. de Witt, ca. 1856), by Major Richardson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Hardscrabble, Or, The Fall of Chicago: A Tale of Indian Warfare, by Major Richardson (Gutenberg text)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Great Conflagration, Chicago: Its Past, Present and Future (1871), by James Washington Sheahan and George P. Upton (DjVu at Georgia)

• The Babe: Child of Boom and Bust in Old Chicago, Umbilicus Mundi, by Alfred De Grazia (HTML at grazian-archive.com)

• An Act to Provide for the Incorporation of Cities and Villages, by Illinois (page images at MOA)

• Chicago: Past, Present, Future, by John Stephen Wright (page images at MOA)

• Chicago Magazine: The West As It Is (page images at MOA)
• Chicago: Past, Present, Future, by John Stephen Wright (page images at MOA)
• History of the Great Fires in Chicago and the West, by E. J. Goodspeed (page images at MOA)
• The Story of Chicago and National Development, 1534-1910 (Chicago: Little Chronicle Co., c1909), by Eleanor Atkinson, ed. by Little Chronicle Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Education of Robert Nifkin (read by the author in its entirety; c1998), by Daniel Manus Pinkwater (MP3 files (select this title from the "choose a book" menu) at pinkwater.com)
• Luke Walton, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago, by Ben Hecht (Gutenberg text)

• Chicago Poems, by Carl Sandburg
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • HTML with commentary at carl-sandburg.com

• If Christ Came to Chicago! A Plea for the Union of All Who Love in the Service of All Who Suffer (Chicago: Laird and Lee, 1894), by W. T. Stead (PDF files with commentary at Northwestern)

• The Spider and the Fly: or, Tricks, Traps, and Pitfalls of City Life, By One Who Knows (compilation of some previous publications, with some early pages missing; New York: C. Miller and Co., 1875), contrib. by Henry William Herbert
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Babe: Child of Boom and Bust in Old Chicago, Umbilicus Mundi, by Alfred De Grazia (HTML at grazian-archive.com)
• If Christ Came to Chicago! A Plea for the Union of All Who Love in the Service of All Who Suffer (Chicago: Laird and Lee, 1894), by W. T. Stead (PDF files with commentary at Northwestern)

• The Accused, the Accusers: The Famous Speeches of the Eight Chicago Anarchists in Court (Chicago: Socialistic Publishing Society, ca.1886) (HTML at chicagohistory.org)
• Anarchy and Anarchists: A History of the Red Terror, and the Social Revolution in America and Europe (1889), by Michael J. Schaack (PDF files with commentary at Northwestern)
• The Chicago Haymarket Riot: Anarchy on Trial (from the Selected Source Materials for College Research Papers series; Boston: D. C. Heath and Co., c1959), ed. by Bernard R. Kogan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gov. Altgeld's Pardon; and The Modern Tragedy, Downfall of the Small Producer; and The Crisis, Its Cause and Cure As Explained and Proposed by Socialism (New York: New York Labor News Co., 1894), contrib. by John Peter Altgeld, Karl Kautsky, and Karl Ibsen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Labor's Martyrs: Haymarket 1887, Sacco and Vanzetti 1927 (1937), by Vito Marcantonio, contrib. by William Z. Foster
  • PDF page images at MSU
  • Gutenberg text
• Reasons for Pardoning Fielden, Neebe and Schwab (1893), by John Peter Altgeld (HTML and page images at chicagohistory.org)

• The Chicago Race Riots, July, 1919 (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1919), by Carl Sandburg, contrib. by Walter Lippmann (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hull-House Maps and Papers: A Presentation of Nationalities and Wages and a Congested District of Chicago, Together With Comments and Essays on Problems Growing Out of the Social Conditions, contrib. by Jane Addams
  • HTML at Pfeiffer
  • PDF files at Northwestern

• Anarchy and Anarchists: A History of the Red Terror, and the Social Revolution in America and Europe (1889), by Michael J. Schaack (PDF files with commentary at Northwestern)

• The Clothing Workers of Chicago, 1910-1922 (Chicago: Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, 1922), by Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Art and Architecture (2 volumes; Philadelphia: G. Barrie, 1893), by William Walton (HTML and page images at iit.edu)

• Miracles in the Slums: or, Thrilling Stories of Those Rescued from the Cesspools of Iniquity, and Touching Incidents in the Lives of the Unfortunate (Chicago: Seth Cook Rees, c1905), by Seth Cook Rees (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Miracles in the Slums: or, Thrilling Stories of Those Rescued from the Cesspools of Iniquity, and Touching Incidents in the Lives of the Unfortunate (Chicago: Seth Cook Rees, c1905), by Seth Cook Rees (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Miracles in the Slums: or, Thrilling Stories of Those Rescued from the Cesspools of Iniquity, and Touching Incidents in the Lives of the Unfortunate (Chicago: Seth Cook Rees, c1905), by Seth Cook Rees (multiple formats at archive.org)

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