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• The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c1922), by Chicago Commission on Race Relations (multiple formats at archive.org)
• De Mau Mau: A Factual Account of Racism in the White Press (ca. 1973), by De Mau Mau Defense Fund (multiple formats at archive.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
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Negro in the Slaughtering and Meat-Packing Industry in Chicago (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1932), by Alma Herbst (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• History of Negro Servitude in Illinois, and of the Slavery Agitation in That State, 1719-1864 (Chicago: A.C. McClurg and Co., 1904), by Norman Dwight Harris (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Book for the People! To Be Read by All Voters, Black and White, with Thrilling Events of the Life of Norvel Blair, of Grundy County, State of Illinois (Joliet, IL: Joliet Daily Record, 1880), by Norvel Blair (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Book for the People! To Be Read by All Voters, Black and White, with Thrilling Events of the Life of Norvel Blair, of Grundy County, State of Illinois (Joliet, IL: Joliet Daily Record, 1880), by Norvel Blair (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Book for the People! To Be Read by All Voters, Black and White, with Thrilling Events of the Life of Norvel Blair, of Grundy County, State of Illinois (Joliet, IL: Joliet Daily Record, 1880), by Norvel Blair (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Great Conflagration, Chicago: Its Past, Present and Future (Chicago and Philadelphia: Union Pub. Co., 1871), by James W. Sheahan and George P. Upton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Italians in Chicago: A Study in Americanization (Chicago: Italian American Pub Co., 1928), by Giovanni Ermenegildo Schiavo, contrib. by Jane Addams, illust. by Rocco D. Navigato (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)

• Tales of Chicago Streets (Little Blue Book #698; Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Co., c1924), by Ben Hecht (page images at HathiTrust)
• Artie: A Story of the Streets and Town (second edition; Chicago: H. S. Stone and Co., 1896), by George Ade, illust. by John T. McCutcheon (illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana)
• Doc' Horne: A Story of the Streets and Town (New York: Duffield and Co., 1906), by George Ade (illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana)
• Erik Dorn, by Ben Hecht
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Gullible's Travels, Etc., by Ring Lardner, illust. by May Wilson Preston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• In Babel: Stories of Chicago (New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1903), by George Ade (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• Pink Marsh: A Story of the Streets and Town (Chicago and New York: H. S. Stone and Co., 1897), by George Ade, illust. by John T. McCutcheon (illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana)
• Sweet Clover: A Romance of the White City (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1895), by Clara Louise Burnham (HTML at Emory)
• 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 (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Chikago: Nykyajan Romaani ("The Jungle" in Finnish; Provoo: WSOY, 1906), by Upton Sinclair, trans. by O. A. Joutsen (Gutenberg text)
• The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair (Gutenberg text)
• Pyramid Scheme, by Dave Freer and Eric Flint (multiple formats at freedoors.org)
• Raistas (The Jungle) (Lithuanian translation; Chicago: Spauda "Lietuvos", c1908), by Upton Sinclair, trans. by Jonas Naujokas
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• With the Procession, by Henry Blake Fuller (Gutenberg text)
• So Big (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., c1924), by Edna Ferber (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bomb (London: J. Long, c1908), by Frank Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bomb (first American edition; New York: M. Kennerley, 1909), by Frank Harris
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Bomb (illustrated and definitive edition, with a new afterword; New York: The author, 1920), by Frank Harris
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Bomb (with a 1963 introduction by Dos Passos), by Frank Harris, contrib. by John Dos Passos (HTML at theanarchistlibrary.org)
• The Efficiency Expert, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Gutenberg text)
• The Efficiency Expert (original magazine version), by Edgar Rice Burroughs (illustrated HTML at erblist.com)
• The Pit: A Story of Chicago, by Frank Norris (Gutenberg text)
• A Tame Surrender: A Story of the Chicago Strike (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1896), by Charles King (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Wilby's Dan (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1904), by William Wallace Cook, illust. by C. B. Falls (page images at HathiTrust)
• Windy McPherson's Son, by Sherwood Anderson (Gutenberg text)
• The Fabulous Clipjoint, by Fredric Brown (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Marching Men, by Sherwood Anderson (Gutenberg text)
• Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser (Gutenberg text)
• Sister Carrie (New York: Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1900), by Theodore Dreiser
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at Wayback Machine
• Sister Carrie (New York: B. W. Dodge and Co., 1907), by Theodore Dreiser (multiple formats at Indiana)
• The Song of the Lark (1915), by Willa Cather (Gutenberg text)

• Chicago: Past, Present, Future, by John Stephen Wright (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)
• Sketches of Childhood and Girlhood: Chicago, 1847-1864 (c1925), by Cornelia Gray Lunt
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• History of the Great Fires in Chicago and the West, by E. J. Goodspeed (page images at MOA)

• 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)
• Mary Jane's City Home (New York: Barse and Hopkins, c1920), by Clara Ingram Judson, illust. by Thelma Gooch (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Luke Walton, by Horatio Alger (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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