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The Playboy Club (2011) Postcards from Buster (2004–2012) - One episode set in Chicago, also where Buster Baxter and his dad ride a CTA Brown Line train in the theme song. The Real O'Neals (2016) Prison Break (2005–2009) - partly set in Chicago. Punky Brewster (1984–1986). NBC. Punky Brewster (2021), Peacock.
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America is a 2003 historical non-fiction book by Erik Larson presented in a novelistic style. . Set in Chicago during the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, it tells the story of World’s Fair architect Daniel Burnham and of H. H. Holmes, a criminal figure widely considered the first serial killer in the United ...
The Dresden Files. The Dresden Files is a series of contemporary fantasy / mystery novels written by American author Jim Butcher. The first novel, Storm Front —which was also Butcher's writing debut—was published in 2000 by Roc Books . The books are written as a first-person narrative from the perspective of private investigator and wizard ...
The Great Books (second edition) Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952, by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., to present the great books in 54 volumes. The original editors had three criteria for including a book in the series drawn from Western Civilization: the book must be ...
The Jungle is a novel by American muckraker author Upton Sinclair, known for his efforts to expose corruption in government and business in the early 20th century. In 1904 Sinclair spent seven weeks gathering information while working incognito in the meatpacking plants of the Chicago stockyards for the socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason, which published the novel in serial form in 1905.
Dangling Man. The Dark Garden. Dark Hero. Dark Matter (Crouch novel) Deadlock (novel) The Dean's December. Death Masks. Death Sentence (novel) The Deep End of the Ocean.
The Chicago Public Library offers free lecture series covering a variety of topics including: Law at the Library (a free monthly lecture series that offers participants the opportunity to speak with a legal professional about a variety of legal topics), Money Smart (a series of financial literacy programs), and Author Series. The Chicago Public ...
Corinne Mustin (cousin) Signature. Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer, muckraker, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California. He wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half ...