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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.
Audrey Niffenegger's science fiction love story The Time Traveler's Wife (2003) takes place largely in North Side Chicago settings, [31] including the Newberry Library. [ 32 ] Frank Norris 's The Pit (1903) is a naturalistic novel about greed and speculation at the early 20th-century Chicago Board of Trade .
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 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 Harry Dresden as he ...
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. Desecration (novel)
The Litigators is a 2011 legal thriller novel by John Grisham, his 25th fiction novel overall. The Litigators is about a two- partner Chicago law firm attempting to strike it rich in a class action lawsuit over a cholesterol reduction drug by a major pharmaceutical drug company. The protagonist is a Harvard Law School grad big law firm burnout ...
Divergent is a series of young adult science fiction adventure novels by American novelist Veronica Roth set in a post-apocalyptic dystopian Chicago. [1] The trilogy consists of Divergent (2011), Insurgent (2012), and Allegiant (2013). [2][3] A related book, Four (2014), presents a series of short stories told from the perspective of one of the ...
Plot. In late 1889, dissatisfied with life in Columbia County, Wisconsin, 18-year-old Caroline Meeber, "Sister Carrie" to her family, takes the train to Chicago to live with her older sister Minnie and Minnie's husband. On the train, Carrie meets Charles Drouet, a traveling salesman who is attracted to her because of her simple beauty and ...