Illinois Titles
Karen
Abbott – Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys and the Battle for
America’s Soul
Jane
Addams - Twenty Years at Hull-House
William
Aldrich – Annuals of Illinois
Simon
Baatz – For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb and the Murder that Shocked Chicago
Ira
Berkow – Maxwell Street: Survival in a Bazaar
Raymond
Bial – The Carnegie Library in Illinois
David
Buisseret – Historic Illinois From the Air
Jane
Byrne – My Chicago
George
Castle – The I-55 Series: Cubs vs. Cardinals
Willard
Clay – Wild & Scenic Illinois
Louise
Cleland – Wife on the Farm: A Collection
Hillary
Rodham Clinton – Living
History
Adam
Cohen – American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley: His Battle for Chicago and the
Nation
Confluence: a Living Literary Legacy of the Rock River Valley
Robert
Cromie – The Great Chicago Fire
William
Cronon – Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
Edwin
Darby – The Fortune Builders
Don
Davenport – In Lincoln’s Foosteps
James
Edward Davis – Frontier Illinois
Kevin
Davis – Defending the Damned: Inside the Chicago Cook County Defender’s Office
Rick
Davis – They Call Heroes Mister: The Jesse White Story
Sheryl
DeVore – Birds of Illinois
Mike
Ditka – Ditka: An
Autobiography
D.D.
Dunn – Binder twine ‘n Bandaids: Homegrown Humor from the Heartland
John
Dunphy – Lewis and Clark’s Illinois Volunteers
Allan
Eckert – Twilight of Empire: A Narrative
E.
Duane Elbert – History from the Heart: Quilt Paths Across Illinois
Steve
Fiffer -
Tyrannosaurus Sue: The
Extraordinary Saga of the Largest, Most Fought Over T. Rex Ever Found
Richard
Franke – Cut From Whole Cloth: An Immigrant Experience
Jane
Friedman – America’s First Woman Lawyer: The Biography of Myra Bradwell
Elmer
Gertz – Quest for a Constitution: a Man Who Wouldn’t Quit: A Political Biography
of Samuel Witmer of Illinois
Barry
Gifford – The Neighborhood of Baseball: A Personal History of the Chicago Cubs
Doris
Kearns Goodwin – Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Julia
Grant – The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant (Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant)
Robert
E. Hartley – Big Jim Thompson of Illinois
Michael
Harvey – The Chicago Way
Lyndee
Jobe Henderson – More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Illinois Women
Pam
Henderson -
You Know You're in Illinois when… : 101 quintessential places, people, events,
customs, lingo, and eats of the Prairie State
Victor Hicken – Illinois in the Civil War
Hugh
Holton – Windy City
Jerome
Holtzman – No Cheering in the Press Box
J.N.
Hook – Illinois Authors and a Literary Map of Illinois
Nancy
Horan – Loving Frank
Robert
P. Howard – Mostly Good and Competent Men: Illinois Governors 1818-1988
An
Illinois Christmas Anthology
Illinois Women: 75 Years of the Right to Vote
John
Kachuba – Ghosthunting Illinois
Larry
Kanfer – Prairiescapes: Photographs
Jan
Knutson – For the Love of Ida: A History of Ida Public Library (1883-1993)
Andrew
Koval – Illinois Depots
Erik
Larson – The Devil in the White City
Lewis
Lehrman – Lincoln at Peoria: The Turning Point: Getting Right with the
Declaration of Indepedence
Abraham
Lincoln – The Life and Writing of Abraham Lincoln
Richard
Lindberg – Who’s On 3rd?: The Chicago White Sox Story
Beth
Herbert Luhman – The Art and Times of Professor William Stanley and the Families
he Touched
Betty
Madden – Art, Crafts and Architecture in Early Illinois
John
Martlow Martin – Adlai Stevenson of Illinois: The Life of Adlai E. Stevenson
Benton
McAdams – Rebels at Rock Island: the Story of a Civil War Prison
Carrie
A. Meyer – Days on the Family Farm: From the Golden Age through the Great
Depression
Clarence Mitchell – River Hill Soliloquy: The Story of an Illinois Farm
Dan
Monroe – At Home with Illinois Governors: A Social History of the Illinois
Executive Mansion, 1855-2003
David
Murray – Charles Percy of Illinois
Carrie
Muskat – Banks to Sandberg to Grace: Five Decades of Love and Frustration With
the Chicago Cubs
Richard
Peck – A Long Way From Chicago
Taylor
Pensoneau – Powerhouse: Arrington From Illinois
Ron
Powers – Far From Home: Life and Loss in Two American Towns
Ronald
Reagan – The Reagan Diaries
Kimberla Lawson Roby – Behind Closed Doors
Mike
Royko – The Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago
Bruce
Rubenstein – Chicago in the World Series, 1903-2005: the Cubs and the White Sox
in Championship Play
Edward
J. Russo – Illinois State Fair: A 150 Year History
Carl
Sandburg – Abraham Lincoln, the War Years
Barbara
Sapinsley – The Private War of Mrs. Packard
June
Sawyers – Chicago Portraits: Biographies of 250 Famous Chicagoans
Christopher Schuberth – A View of the Past: An Introduction to Illinois Geology
Robert
Shaw – Illinois: Seasons of Light
John
Skipper – Take Me Out to the Cubs Game: 35 Former Ballplayers Speak of Losing at
Wrigley
Paul
Simon – Let’s Put America Back To Work
Scott
Simon – Windy City: A Novel of Politics
Troy
Taylor – Haunted Illinois: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Prairie State
Tell Me
A Story: Memories of Early Life Around the Coal Fields of Illinois
Karen
Tintori – Trapped: the 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster
Glennette Tilley Turner – The Underground Railroad in Illinois
Scott
Turow – Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer’s Reflections on Dealing with the Death
Penalty
Clyde
Walton – An Illinois Reader
Adade
Mitchell Wheeler – The Roads They Made: Women in Illinois History
John H.
White – This Man Bernardin