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• After the Storm, by Margaret Johnson (HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)

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• New Grub Street : a novel (Smith, Elder, 1891), by George Gissing (page images at HathiTrust)

• When Wilderness Was King: A Tale of the Illinois Country, by Randall Parrish (Gutenberg text)
• Spanish Peggy: A Story of Young Illinois (New York: Herbert S. Stone and Co, 1899), by Mary Hartwell Catherwood (multiple formats at Indiana)
• The grapple; a story of the Illinois coal region ... (L. C. Page & company, 1905), by Grace MacGowan Cooke, Arthur William Brown, and L.C. Page & Company (1897-1914) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The two circuits. A story of Illinois life (Jansen, McClurg & Co., 1877), by J. L. Crane (page images at HathiTrust)
• A marital messenger (The Neale Publishing Company, 1910), by W. E. Gibson and Neale Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elizabeth Abbott : a novel of southern Illinois (Exposition Press, 1956), by Mae Connie Trovillion Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• When Wilderness was King: A Tale of the Illinois Country, by Randall Parrish, illust. by Margaret West Kinney and Troy Kinney (Gutenberg ebook)
• Shock Troop, by Richard Bolton (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Hallowell Partnership, by Katharine Holland Brown (Gutenberg ebook)
• Her Infinite Variety, by Brand Whitlock, illust. by Howard Chandler Christy and Ralph Fletcher Seymour (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Graysons: A Story of Illinois, by Edward Eggleston, illust. by Allegra Eggleston (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Yankee from the West: A Novel, by Opie Percival Read (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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., 1894), by Clara Louise Burnham (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• Tales of Chicago Streets (Little Blue Book #698; Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Co., c1924), by Ben Hecht (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• 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)
• So Big (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., c1924), by Edna Ferber (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• The man of the hour (Grosset and Dunlap, 1905), by Octave Thanet, Lucius Wolcott Hitchcock, and Grosset & Dunlap (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jane Cable (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1906), by George Barr McCutcheon (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Chicago princess (F. A. Stokes company, 1904), by Robert Barr (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• With the procession, a novel (Harper & Brothers, 1895), by Henry Blake Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The common lot (The Macmillan company;, 1904), by Robert Herrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The song of the lark (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915), by Willa Cather, Riverside Press, and Houghton Mifflin Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sister Carrie (New York : B.W. Dodge & Company, 1907, 1907), by Theodore Dreiser and B.W. Dodge & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pit; a story of Chicago (Grove Press, 1956), by Frank Norris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lucky number (Way and Williams, 1896), by I. K. Friedman and Way & Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• In Babel; stories of Chicago (A. Wessels, co., 1906), by George Ade and A. Wessels Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago in tears and smiles. (Lauer & Mattill, 1893), by Wilhelm vom Strande and Robert Edward Gutermann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cranky Ann, the street-walker : a story of Chicago in chunks (s.n., 1878), by Shang Andrews and Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shams; or, Uncle Ben's experience with hypocrites. (J. E. Potter, 1894), by John Smith Draper (page images at HathiTrust)
• A little girl in old Chicago (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1904), by Amanda M. Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sister Carrie (Doubleday, Page & Co., 1900), by Theodore Dreiser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deal in wheat, and other stories of the new and old West (Collier, 1903), by Frank Norris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gullible's travels, etc. (The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1917), by Ring Lardner, May Wilson Preston, Braunworth & Co, and Bobbs-Merrill Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The girls (Grosset and Dunlap, 1921), by Edna Ferber (page images at HathiTrust)
• The man who tried to be it (George H. Doran company, 1917), by Cameron Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The main road : a novel (Harper & Brothers, 1913), by Maude Radford Warren and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Country boy in the city. (The Lumber Review Company Publishers, 1906), by Benjamin F. Cobb and Lumber Review Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The jungle (Grosset & Dunlap, 1906), by Upton Sinclair (page images at HathiTrust)
• A mother of unborn generations : a novel (Broadway Publishing Company, 1912), by Stuart Kencarden and Broadway Publishing Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• A girl of Chicago (F. Tennyson Neely Co., 1901), by Mary Moncure Parker and F. Tennyson Neely (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Foiled : a story of Chicago (Clark & Longley, 1885), by Robert H. Cowdrey and Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Helen St. Vincent (Geo. K. Hazlitt & Co., 1895), by John J. Flinn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ray Burton : a Chicago tale ([s.n.], 1895), by M. Train and Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Death at a masquerade (M.S. Mill Co., Inc., 1938), by M. E. Corne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The hoodlums (Avon, 1953), by John Eagle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sister Carrie (Boni & Liveright, 1917), by Theodore Dreiser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Ben's experience with hypocrites. (Thomas & Thomas, 1899), by John Smith Draper (page images at HathiTrust)
• The big midget murders (Pocket Books, 1948), by Craig Rice (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Syvänne : $b Kuvauksia Chicagon pörssipiireistä (in Finnish), by Frank Norris, trans. by Yrjö Sirola (Gutenberg ebook)
• Clutch of Morpheus, by Larry Sternig (Gutenberg ebook)
• A corner in corn; or, How a Chicago boy did the trick, by Self-made man (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Disembodied Man, by Jack Owen Jardine (Gutenberg ebook)
• Guaranteed—Forever!, by Frank M. Robinson, illust. by W. E. Terry (Gutenberg ebook)
• Keeban, by Edwin Balmer (Gutenberg ebook)
• Compete or Die!, by Mark Reinsberg (Gutenberg ebook)
• One for the Robot—Two for the Same, by Rog Phillips, illust. by Robert Fuqua (Gutenberg ebook)
• Decidedly Odd, by Edwin Balmer and William MacHarg (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lord of the Silent Death, by Robert Moore Williams (Gutenberg ebook)
• Con-Fen, by James R. Adams, illust. by Ed Emshwiller (Gutenberg ebook)
• So Big, by Edna Ferber (Gutenberg ebook)
• Until Life Do Us Part, by Winston K. Marks, illust. by Ed Emshwiller (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Briary Bush: A Novel, by Floyd Dell (Gutenberg ebook)
• Rebellion, by Joseph Medill Patterson, illust. by Walter Dean Goldbeck (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ysaïl: En berättelse från Chicago (in Swedish), by Henning Berger (Gutenberg ebook)
• An Eye for an Eye: Big Blue Book no. B-24, by Clarence Darrow (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Chicago Princess, by Robert Barr, illust. by Francis P. Wightman (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Place Where Chicago Was, by Jim Harmon, illust. by Cowles (Gutenberg ebook)
• License to Steal, by Louis Newman, illust. by Wallace Wood (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Shadow of Victory: A Romance of Fort Dearborn, by Myrtle Reed (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Secret Toll, by Mabel Thorne and Paul Thorne (Gutenberg ebook)
• With Edge Tools, by H. C. Chatfield-Taylor (Gutenberg ebook)
• Deadly City, by Paul W. Fairman, illust. by Ed Emshwiller (Gutenberg ebook)
• Wau-nan-gee; Or, the Massacre at Chicago: A Romance of the American Revolution, by Major Richardson (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Girl and the Bill: An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure, by Bannister Merwin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Little Lost Sister, by Virginia Brooks (Gutenberg ebook)
• Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son: Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy.", by George Horace Lorimer (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Colossus: A Novel, by Opie Percival Read (Gutenberg ebook)
• Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son, by George Horace Lorimer (Gutenberg ebook)

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