The story of an African-American woman growing up on the South side of Chicago in the turbulent 60s as she tests the limits of racism and refuses to accept the fact that just because she is African American she is inferior.
Chicago police sergeant Abe Liebermann is stunned early one morning to hear some of the worst news possible. His brother's son, David, has been murdered in a robbery the night before and David's pregnant wife, Carol, has been seriously wounded.
A twelve-year-old street urchin and the son of Chicago's most important jeweler strike up an unlikely friendship in the days before the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, and both are nearly trapped when the city goes up in flames.
A graphic novel adaptation of Upton Sinclair's novel in which a young Lithuanian immigrant, hoping to create a good life for himself and his family in the early 1900s, is discouraged by the shocking conditions he encounters as a worker in the Chicago stockyards.
A biography of Al Capone, discussing his early life, how he became involved in crime, and his activities during prohibition, and providing information about his family, prison time, and legacy.
Presents the script for Bruce Norris's satirical play in which Russ and Bev create discontent among their white neighbors when their sell their two-bedroom home in Clybourne Parke to an African-American family in 1959, which is echoed fifty years later when African-Americans disapprove of a young white couple's purchase of the same house which they plan to tear down and build anew.
Explores the desperate, dangerous, and remarkable ways in which the residents of Maquis Park, a poor African-American neighborhood on Chicago's Southside, struggle to survive.
Photographs and text discuss the people and events involved in the unsuccessful but influential strike by railroad workers at the Pullman Company in Chicago in 1894.
