For nearly two-hundred years, Chicago has been one of the biggest cities in the United States, and the land the city stands on has existed for much longer. As a result Chicago has a long history of social changes that have led to where we are today. The resources below help to illuminate some of that history.

Books

• Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side, Eve L. Ewing
• Building the Black Metropolis: African American Entrepreneurship in Chicago, Robert E. Weems Jr.
• Making Mexican Chicago, Mike Amezcua
• Chinese Chicago: Race, Transnational Migration, and Community Since 1870, Huping Ling
• Local Flavor: Restaurants that Shaped Chicago's Neighborhoods, Jean Iverson

Articles

• Indigenous Tribes of Chicago 1919: Confronting the Race Riots
• Without Native Americans, Would We Have Chicago As We Know It?

Recommendation Lists

• Chicago Black History and Culture: Read, Watch, Listen
• Chicago Stories: Nonfiction 
• Chicago's LGBTQ Movement 
• Coming to Chicago: Immigrant Stories

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