| title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
| A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike | King, Charles, 1844-1933 | en | | | | Pullman Strike, 1894 -- Fiction; Strikes and lockouts -- Fiction; Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction | 2007-12-20 |
| Wau-nan-gee or the Massacre at Chicago
A Romance of the American Revolution | Richardson, John, 1796-1852 | en | | | | | 2010-03-23 |
| Chicago's Black Traffic in White Girls | Turner-Zimmermann, Jean | en | | | | | 2010-03-12 |
| The Automobile Girls at Chicago
or, Winning Out Against Heavy Odds | Crane, Laura Dent | en | | | | | 2010-05-19 |
| 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 kn | Lorimer, George Horace, 1869-1937 | en | | | | Fathers and sons -- Fiction; Merchants -- Fiction; Epistolary fiction; Men -- Conduct of life -- Fiction; Social ethics -- Fiction; Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction; Didactic fiction | 2007-06-28 |
| Little Lost Sister | Brooks, Virginia, 1886- | en | | | | Human trafficking -- Fiction; Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction | 2008-06-12 |
| Luke Walton | Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899 | en | | | | Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction; Conduct of life -- Fiction; Robbers and outlaws -- Fiction; Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction | 2008-07-17 |
| The Titan | Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 | en | | | | Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction; Capitalists and financiers -- Fiction; Psychological fiction | 2003-01-01 |
| Sister Carrie: a Novel | Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 | en | | | | Young women -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction; Mistresses -- Fiction; Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction | 1995-03-01 |
| The Jungle | Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968 | en | | | | Meat industry and trade -- Fiction; Working class -- Fiction; Stockyards -- Fiction; Immigrants -- Fiction; Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction; Lithuanian Americans -- Fiction; Political fiction | 2006-03-11 |
| Old Gorgon Graham
More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son | Lorimer, George Horace, 1869-1937 | en | | | | Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction; Didactic fiction; Epistolary fiction; Fathers and sons -- Fiction; Men -- Conduct of life -- Fiction; Merchants -- Fiction; Social ethics -- Fiction | 2004-04-01 |
| Mary Jane's City Home | Judson, Clara Ingram, 1879-1950 | en | | | Gooch, Thelma [Illustrator] | Family life -- Juvenile fiction; Chicago (Ill.) -- Juvenile fiction; Girls -- Juvenile fiction | 2008-09-03 |
| A Preface to Politics | Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974 | en | | Introduction -- Routineer and inventor -- The taboo -- The changing focus -- The golden rule and after -- Well meaning but unmeaning: the Chicago vice report -- Some necessary iconoclasm -- The making of creeds -- The red herring -- Revolution and culture. | | Social problems -- United States; United States -- Politics and government | 2006-12-16 |
| The Song of the Lark | Cather, Willa Sibert, 1873-1947 | en | | | | Bildungsromans; Musical fiction; Colorado -- Fiction; Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction; Opera -- Fiction; Young women -- Fiction; Swedish Americans -- Fiction; Children of clergy -- Fiction; Women singers -- Fiction | 2008-06-27 |