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• 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)
• The Sun Maid: A Story of Fort Dearborn (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1900), by Evelyn Raymond
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Wolf Point, an adventure in history. (Putnam, 1953), by Leonard Dubkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago-noveller. (Gyldendal, 1892), by C. M. Norman-Hansen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hardscrabble, or The Fall of Chicago : a tale of Indian warfare (De Witt & Davenport, 1856), by Major Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hardscrabble, or, The fall of Chicago a tale of Indian warfare (Pollard & Moss, 1888), by John Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hardscrabble, or, The fall of Chicago a tale of Indian warfare (R.M. de Witt, 1856), by John Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago-noveller (Gyldendal, 1892), by C. M. Norman-Hansen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Massacre at Chicago (H. Long, 1852), by John Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Barriers burned away (Dodd, Mead and company, 1900), by Edward Payson Roe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• 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)
• History of the Great Fires in Chicago and the West, by E. J. Goodspeed (page images at MOA)
• Sketches of Childhood and Girlhood: Chicago, 1847-1864 (c1925), by Cornelia Gray Lunt
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• The Chicago massacre of 1812, with illustrations and historical documents (The Dibble publishing company, 1893), by Joseph Kirkland (page images at HathiTrust)
• A brief history of the Chicago Historical Society : together with constitution and by-laws, and list of officers and members. (s.n.], 1881), by Chicago Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and character of William Taylor Baker, president of the World's Columbian exposition and of the Chicago Board of trade (The Premier press, 1908), by Charles H. Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago and the sources of her past and future growth. A paper read before the Chicago Historical Society, Tuesday evening, January 20th, 1880. (Jansen, McClurg & co., 1880), by William Bross (page images at HathiTrust)
• 10th Annual Convention of the League of American Municipalities held at Chicago September 26, 27 and 28, 1906 ... (Printed by Kirchner, Meckel & Co., 1906), by League of American Municipalities (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lost Maramech and earliest Chicago; a history of the Foxes and of their downfall near the great village of Maramech (F.H. Revell Co., 1903), by John F. Steward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago, past, present, future relations to the great interior, and to the continent (Horton & Leonard, printers, 1870), by John S. Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Municipal history and present organization of the city of Chicago (Madison, Wis., 1898), by Samuel Edwin Sparling (page images at HathiTrust)
• The location of the Chicago portage route of the seventeenth century (Chicago historical society, 1928), by Robert Knight and Lucius Henry P. Zeuch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago's highways, old and new. (D. F. Keller & company, 1923), by Milo Milton Quaife and Douglas Pappas (page images at HathiTrust)
• H. H. Porter; a short autobiography written for his children and grandchildren. (Priv. print. [R.R. Donnelley and sons company], 1915), by Henry H. Porter and R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Chicago. (A. T. Andreas, 1884), by A. T. Andreas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Checagou; from Indian wigwam to modern city, 1673-1835 (The University of Chicago Press, 1933), by Milo Milton Quaife (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chicago (Houghton Mifflin, 1917), by H. C. Chatfield-Taylor and Lester George Hornby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Father Pierre François Pinet, S.J., and his Mission of the guardian angel of Chicago (l'Ange gardien) A.D. 1696-1699 (Chicago, 1907), by Frank Reed Grover (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of old Fort Dearborn (A. C. McClurg & co., 1912), by J. Seymour Currey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago and the Old Northwest, 1673-1835 ; a study of the evolution of the northwestern frontier, together with a history of Fort Dearborn (University of Chicago Press, 1913), by Milo Milton Quaife (page images at HathiTrust)
• Growing up with Chicago : sequel to "Stormy years," (R.F. Seymour, 1944), by Carter Harry Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Palmer house, old and new; an historical sketch ([Printed by R. R. Donnelley & sons company, 1925), by Wallace Rice (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Chicago. Fort Dearborn : an address delivered at the unveiling of the memorial tablet to mark the site of the block-house ... May 21st, 1881, under the auspices of the Chicago Historical Society, to which have been added notes and an appendix (Fergus Printing Co., 1881), by John Wentworth and Chicago Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Chicago, Illinois. (Munsell & co., 1895), by John Moses, Joseph Kirkland, and W.W. Munsell & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recollections of seventy years (Gazette Pub. Co., 1899), by Augustus L. Chetlain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early days of Peoria and Chicago; an address read before the Chicago Historical Society at a quarterly meeting held January 19, 1904 ([Chicago, 1904), by David McCulloch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wau-bun, the "early day" in the North-west. (Derby & Jackson;, 1856), by Mrs. John H. Kinzie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wau-bun, the early day in the Northwest (George Banta publishing company, 1930), by Mrs. John H. Kinzie and Louise Phelps Kellogg (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Chicago : historical and commercial statistics, sketches, facts and figures, republished from the "Daily Democratic press" ; What I remember of early Chicago, a lecture, delivered in McCormick's hall, January 23, 1876 (Tribune, January 24th) (Jansen, McClurg & Co., 1876), by William Bross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago and the great conflagration. (C. F. Vent;, 1871), by Elias Colbert and Everett Chamberlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indians of the Chicago region (C.S. Winslow, 1946), by Charles Spaulding Winslow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wau-bun : the "early day" in the North-west (Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1932), by Mrs. John H. Kinzie and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discovery and conquests of the North-west, with the history of Chicago. (R. Blanchard & Co., 1879), by Rufus Blanchard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of early Chicago. (R.R. Donnelley & sons company, 1912), by Mabel McIlvaine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of Chicago during the forties and fifties (R. R. Donnelley & Sons company, 1913), by Mabel McIlvaine, A. T. Andreas, Joseph Jefferson, Charles Cleaver, and William Bross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago and the great conflagration (C.F. Vent ;, 1871), by Elias Colbert and Everett Chamberlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rail-roads, history and commerce of Chicago. (Democratic Press Job and Book Steam Printing Office, 1954), by William Bross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wau-bun, the "early day" in the North-west (Rand, McNally & company, 1901), by Mrs. John H. Kinzie and Eleanor Lytle Kinzie Gordon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wau-bun, the early day in the Northwest. (J.B. Lippincott & co., 1873), by Mrs. John H. Kinzie (page images at HathiTrust)
• General directory and business advertiser of the city of Chicago for the year 1844 : with a historical sketch and statistics extending from 1837 to 1844 (Ellis & Fergus, printers, 1902), by J. W. Norris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bygone days in Chicago; recollections of the "Garden city" of the sixties (A. C. McClurg & Co., 1910), by Frederick F. Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• The epic of Chicago (Willett, Clark & Company, 1932), by Henry Raymond Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago antiquities; comprising original items and relations, letters, extracts, and notes, pertaining to early Chicago ... (For the author, 1881), by Henry H. Hurlbut (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of Chicago (Dibble publishing company, 1892), by Joseph Kirkland and Caroline Kirkland (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Kinzie, the "father of Chicago" ; a sketch ([Savannah? Ga., 1910), by Mrs. Eleanor Lytle Kinzie Gordon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great fire of Chicago; a full account of its origin and progress as seen by eye witnesses, and compiled from authentic reports ... (Doughty, 1871) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The artistic guide to Chicago and the World's Columbian Exposition, illustrated ... (R. S. Peale Company, 1892) (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the great fires in Chicago and the West ... With a history of the rise and progress of Chicago, the "young giant". To which is appended a record of the great fires in the past. (H. S. Goodspeed & Co.;, 1871), by E. J. Goodspeed (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of Chicago (Rand, McNally & company, 1911), by Jennie Hall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Chicago: past, present, future. ([Horton & Leonard, printers], 1868), by John S. Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Chicago (Fergus Print. Co., 1876), by Henry Brown, Harriet Martineau, and James A. Marshall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of early Chicago and vicinity (Revell, 1902), by Edwin Oscar Gale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Monroe Street : notes on the Monroe Street of early Chicago days (Central Trust Company of Illinois, 1914), by Edwin F. Mack (page images at HathiTrust)
• The social and political activities of William James Onahan (The Catholic university of America, 1942), by Sevina Pahorezki (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Discovery and conquests of the North-west (R. Blanchard & company, 1881), by Rufus Blanchard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of Chicago (Dibble publishing company, 1892), by Joseph Kirkland and Caroline Kirkland (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Chicago, Illinois (Munsell & co., 1895), by John Moses, Joseph Kirkland, and New York Munsell & Co. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago and Illinois miscellanies. ([Chicago, 1876) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Father Pierre François Pinet, S.J. and his Mission of the Guardian Angel of Chicago (l'Ange Gardien) A.D. 1696-1699 : a paper read before a joint meeting of the Chicago Historical Society and the Evanston Historical Society in the Chicago Historical Society Building, November 27, 1906 ([Chicago Historical Society], 1907), by Frank R. Grover, Evanston Historical Society (Ill.), and Chicago Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Political history of Chicago (covering the period from 1837 to 1887) Local politics from the city's birth; Chicago's mayors, aldermen and other officials; county and federal officers; the fire and police departments; the Haymarket horror; miscellaneous. (Donohue & Henneberry, printers and binders, 1886), by M. L. Ahern (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical sketches of some of the early settlers of the city of Chicago : part I. (Fergus Printing Co., 1876) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Chicago : reception to the settlers of Chicago prior to 1840, by the Calumet Club, of Chicago, Tuesday evening, May 27, 1879. (Calumet Club, 1879), by Ill.) Calumet Club (Chicago (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago and its suburbs. (T. A. Hungerford & co., 1874), by Everett Chamberlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago : an instructive and entertaining history of a wonderful city : with a useful stranger's guide. (Rhodes & McClure, 1888) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago: its history and its builders; a century of marvelous growth. (S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1912), by J. Seymour Currey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago: its history and its builders, a century of marvelous growth (The S. J. Clark publishing company, 1912), by J. Seymour Currey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago, a history and forecast (The Chicago association of commerce, 1921), by William Hudson Harper, William Hudson Harper, Mabel McIlvaine, Milo Milton Quaife, and Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Chicago and Illinois (Fergus, 1890), by Edward G. Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago, die geschichte einer wunderstadt (Im selbstverlag [M. Stern & co.], 1892), by Eugen Seeger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical review of Chicago and Cook county and selected biography. A.N. Waterman ... ed. and author of Historical review. (The Lewis publishing company, 1908), by Arba N. Waterman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago: past, present, future. Relations to the great interior, and to the continent. ([Horton & Leonard, printers], 1870), by John S. Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• The discovery and conquests of the Northwest : including the early history of Chicago, Detroit, Vincennes, St. Louis, Ft. Wayne, Prairie du Chien, Marietta, Cincinnati, Cleveland, etc., etc., and incidents of pioneer life in the region of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley (Cushing, Thomas & Co., 1880), by Rufus Blanchard and Elijah M. Haines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discovery and conquests of the North-west, with the history of Chicago v.2 (R. Blanchard and Company, 1898), by Rufus Blanchard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antoine Ouilmette : a resident of Chicago A.D. 1790-1826. The first settler of Evanston and Wilmette (1826-1838) with a brief history of his family and the Ouilmette reservation (Evanston Historical Society, 1908), by Frank R. Grover (page images at HathiTrust)
• Centennial history of the city of Chicago. Its men and institutions. Biographical sketches of leading citizens. (The Inter Ocean, 1905) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago (Newson, 1933), by William H. Johnson, Elinor C. McCollom, and Helen M. Brindl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago, 1837-1922 : 85th anniversary. (C.D. Peacock, 1922), by Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago) and C.D. Peacock (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago, die Geschichte einer Wunderstadt ([Geo. Gregory Printing Co.], 1893), by Eugen Seeger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago, pictorial, historical (Rand, McNally & Co., 1902), by Chicago National Bank (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago illustrated, 1820 to 1880 : also a condensed history of the Orders of Knighthood, including an official programme of the Triennial Conclave of the Knights Templar of the United States to be held in Chicago, August, 1880. (Vandercook & Co., 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago and its distinguished citizens; or, The progress of forty years. Being a record of the important events in the history of Chicago, and a description of its industries, professions and societies, together with biographical sketches of prominent citizens. (M. George & company, 1881), by David Ward Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago : its history and its builders, a century of marvelous growth (S.J. Clarke, 1910), by J. Seymour Currey and Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago's first half century, 1833-1883 : the city as it was fifty years ago, and as it is today : the trade, commerce, manufactories, railroads, banks, wholesale and retail houses, theaters, hotels, churches, and school. (Inter Ocean Pub. co., 1883) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Make Chicago attractive (Chicago, 1919), by Franf J. Campbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago, the wonder city (G. Gregory Printing Co., 1893), by Eugen Seeger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Chicago : a lecture delivered before the Sunday Lecture Society at McCormick Hall on Sunday afternoon, May 7th, 1876 (Fergus Print. Co., 1876), by John Wentworth and Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Four Minute Men of Chicago (History Committee of the Four Minute Men of Chicago, 1919), by United States. Committee on Public Information. Division of Four Minute Men. Chicago Branch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to city of Chicago for 1881 : a complete hand-book to the sights of Chicago. (L.A. Roy, 1881) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago, the pulse of America (Board of Education, 1922), by Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Merchants and manufacturers illustrated Chicago guide for 1880. (Fox, Cole & Co., 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new Chicago. (C.C. Mitchell & Co., 1920) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rail-roads, history and commerce of Chicago. (Democratic Press Job and Book Steam Printing Office, 1854), by Daily Democratic Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Second book of the North Shore; homes, gardens, landscapes, highways and byways, past and present (J. H. White, 1911), by Marian A. White (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of Chicago (Dibble, 1892), by Joseph Kirkland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story of Chicago in connection with the printing business. (Chicago, 1912), by Chicago Regan Printing House (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Chicago from 1833 to 1892 : Describing the difficulties of the route from New York to Chicago, and hardships of the first winter ... (The author, 1892), by Charles Cleaver (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seventy five years in Chicago. (Morton Salt Co., 1923) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago : entwickelung, zerstörung und Wiederaufbau der Wunderstadt (M. Stern, 1872), by Eugen Seeger and Eduard Schlaeger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lost Maramech and earliest Chicago; a history of the Foxes and their downfall near the great village of Maramech (F. H. Revell company, 1903), by John F Stewart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Old Monroe street (Central trust company of Illinois, 1914), by Edwin Frederick Mack (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recollections of seventy years (The Gazette publishing company, 1899), by Augustus Louis Chetlain (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Chicago massacre of 1812 : with illustrations and historical documents (Dibble Pub. Co., 1893), by Joseph Kirkland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Real estate values and historical notes of Chicago. (Chicago, 1900), by Mark H. Putney (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Chicago (Arno Press, 1975), by A. T. Andreas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The story of Chicago and national development,1534-1912. (The Little chronicle company, 1911), by Eleanor Atkinson and Ill.) Little Chronicle Company (Chicago (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago and the great conflagration (Viking Press, 1971), by Elias Colbert and Everett Chamberlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales of the drama : founded on the tragedies of Shakspeare, Massinger, Shirley, Rowe, Murphy, Lillo, and Moore : and on the comedies of Steele, Farquhar, Cumberland, Bickerstaff, Goldsmith, and Mrs. Cowley (S. Andrus, 1852), by Miss Macauley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The annals of Chicago: a lecture delivered before the Chicago lyceum, January 21, 1840 (Fergus printing company, 1876), by Joseph Neree Balestier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago, as we remember her. (Oak Woods Cemetery Assoc., 1955), by Ill.) Oak Woods Cemetery Association (Chicago (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago : highlights of its history (Chicago Historical Society, 1953), by Chicago Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago's great century, 1833-1933 (Consolidated Publishers, 1933), by Henry Justin Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago then and now : a pictorial history of the citys development and a reprint of the first city directory published in Chicago in 1844 by J.W. Norris ... (Aurora, Finch & McCullouch, 1933), by Ernest Butt and James Wellington Norris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Chicago : as seen by a cartoonist (Charles S. Winslow, 1947), by Charles Spaulding Winslow and Ralph Everett Wilder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historic Chicago sites. (Creative Enterprises, 1953), by George Peter Jensen (page images at HathiTrust)
• In reminiscence; highlights of men and events in the life of Chicago (Priv. print. [Excella press], 1941), by Frederick Eugene Coyne (page images at HathiTrust)
• A little history of a great city (Book and Print Guild, 1934), by Frederic William Bond and Kate Bacon Bond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poles in America : their contribution to a century of progress : a commemorative souvenir book compiled and published on the occasion of the Polish Week of Hospitality, July 17 to 23, a Century of Progress International Exposition, 1933. (Polish Day Association, 1933), by Polish Day Association and Chicago (Ill.) Century of Progress International Exposition (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seven miles of ideal living (Norman King Co., Inc., 1957), by Edward T. Scholl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago, her history and her adornment (C.D. Peacock, 1927), by Mabel McIlvaine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arnold Damen, S. J.; a chapter in the making of Chicago (Benziger brothers, 1930), by Joseph P. Conroy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Railroads, history and commerce of Chicago (Democratic Press Job and Book Steam Printing Office, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago's true founder, Thomas J. V. Owen : a pleading for truth and for social justice in Chicago history (Printed privately for the author, Owen Memorial Fund , 1934), by James Ryan Haydon (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Chicago : From the earliest period to the present time. (A. T. Andreas, 1884), by A. T. Andreas (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Chicago : from the earliest period to the present time (Higginson Book Co., 1997), by A. T. Andreas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The discovery and conquests of the Northwest; including the early history of Chicago, Detroit, Vincennes, St. Louis, Ft. Wayne, Prairie du Chien, Marietta, Cincinnati, Cleveland, etc., etc., in incidents of pioneer life in the region of the Great lakes and the Mississippi valley. (Cushing, Thomas & company, 1880), by Rufus Blanchard and Elijah M. Haines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of early Chicago (R. R. Donnelley & sons company, 1912), by Mabel McIlvaine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago and its suburbs. (T. A. Hungerford & co., 1874), by Everett Chamberlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Chicago and Illinois (s.n.], 1890), by Edward G. Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• Father Marquette at Chicago from Marquette's Narrative and Dablon's Relation. (s.n., 1896), by Jacques Marquette, John Gilmary Shea, Edward G. Mason, and Claude Dablon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tunis' new international rail road guide for the United States and Canadas containing a large rail road map, correct time tables of rail roads and population of cities and towns, with general railroad information, compiled from authentic sources. (W.E. Tunis, 1859), by W. E. Tunis (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The beginnings of Chicago. ([Chicago, 1903), by Edwin Erle Sparks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wau-bun, the "early day" of the North-west. (Caxton Club, 1901), by Mrs. John H. Kinzie (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Kinzie, the "father of Chicago" ; a sketch (Acme Bindery for University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Preservation Department, 1910), by Eleanor Lytle Kinzie Gordon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fergus' historical series. (Fergus printing company, 1876) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical sketch of John Dean Caton, ex-Chief-Justice of Illinois (Fergus Printing Co., 1882), by Robert Fergus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early geological history of Chicago (Field Museum of Natural History, 1925), by Henry W. Nichols (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Chicago and Illinois (Fergus, 2006), by Edward G. Mason (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• General directory and business advertiser of the city of Chicago, for the year 1844 : together with a historical sketch and statistical account, to the present time (Finch & McCullach, 1933) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The story of Chicago (Rand McNally & company, 1922), by Jennie Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago: its past, present and future. Embracing a detailed narrative of the great conflagration in the north, south and west divisions ... Also, a condensed history of Chicago, its population, growth and great public works ... (Union Publishing co., 1871), by James Washington Sheahan and George P. Upton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago's Deutsche M�anner : Erinnerungs-Bl�atter au Chicago's F�unfzigj�ahriges Jubil�aum Geschichte der Stadt Chicago (M. Stern & Co., 1885), by Emil Dietzsch, Fred Kressmann, and Max Stern (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early-Chicago reminiscences (Fergus printing company, 1882), by Charles Cleaver (page images at HathiTrust)
• The city's perils (s.n., 1910), by Leona Prall Groetzinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the city of Chicago, its men and institutions. Biographical sketches of leading citizens. (The Inter ocean, 1900) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Father Pierre François Pinet, S. J., and his Mission of the guardian angel of Chicago (L'Ange gardien) 1696-1699: (Chicago, 1907), by Frank Reed Grover (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chicago, past, present, future : relations to the great interior, and to the continent (1868), by John Stephen Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Chicago Massacre of 1812: With Illustrations and Historical Documents, by Joseph Kirkland (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Story of Old Fort Dearborn, by J. Seymour Currey (Gutenberg ebook)
• Wau-Bun: The "Early Day" of the North-West, by John H. Kinzie (Gutenberg ebook)
• Wau-Bun: The Early Day in the Northwest, by John H. Kinzie (Gutenberg ebook)

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