Incoming Resources
- Art in Chicago, a history from the fire to now, edited by Maggie Taft and Robert Cozzolino ; Judith Russi Kirshner, consulting editor ; Erin Hogan, sidebar editor
- Make me a city, a novel, Jonathan Carr
- Shell game, Sara Paretsky
- Chicago, a novel, David Mamet
- Becoming, Michelle Obama
- The governor's wife, Michael Harvey
- An American summer, love and death in Chicago, Alex Kotlowitz
- I survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871, by Lauren Tarshis ; illustrated by Scott Dawson