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1. The Holmes-Pitezel case; a history of the greatest crime of the century and of the search for the missing Pitezel children
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4. Chicago social and club register
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4. The Jews of Illinois : their religious and civic life, their charity and industry, their patriotism and loyalty to American institutions, from their earliest settlement in the State unto the present time
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5. Anniversary tribute of the Chicago Commercial Association to Chicago's executive chief : the Auditorium Hotel, Saturday, October seventh, 1905
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4. The rise and fall of anarchy in America. From its incipient stage to the first bomb thrown in Chicago. A comprehensive account of the great conspiracy culminating in the Haymarket massacre, May 4th, 1886 ... the apprehension, trail, conviction and...
   

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Looking back : an autobiography
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In cooperation with the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois and with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, the UIC Library offers a selection of materials with a particular focus on the history of Chicago. Subject matter ranges across topics such as Chicago congregations, schools and schooling, city governance, Chicago in fiction and poetry, biographies of prominent Chicagoans, and more. Many of the volumes are part of the Library's Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana, housed in its Special Collections Department.

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Year book of the United Charities of Chicago for the year ... (Volume 1914/1915)
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Last week, the engagement terminating October 25, 1902, Shakespeare's tragedy Julius Cæesar produced by Mr. Richard Mansfield.
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Passenger subways for Chicago
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Illinois Theatre : programme.
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