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The House on Mango Street is a 1984 novel by Mexican-American author Sandra Cisneros. Structured as a series of vignettes, it tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, a 12-year-old Chicana girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago.
My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King is an autobiography by Reymundo Sanchez (a pseudonym) about his life as a teenage street gang member in Chicago. [1] [2] The author of the book, Reymundo Sanchez, was a lost boy - disowned by physically abusive step-fathers who could not care less about him or his mother. He soon learned that street ...
A book was published in 1909 by The Chicago Directory Company indexing the old and new street numbers for most of Chicago. This volume is available online in PDF format indexed by initial letter, Plan of Re-Numbering, City of Chicago, August 1909. [ 3 ]
A book on the history of the street, entitled Chicago's Historic Prairie Avenue, was published on June 2, 2008, as part of Arcadia Publishing Co.'s Images of America series. William H. Tyre is the author. [35]
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets is a memoir written by Sudhir Venkatesh. [1] The book chronicles the life of the urban poor and explores Venkatesh's views on poverty, money, gangs, drugs, and life in Chicago. [2] [3] In 2017, it was reported that AMC Networks would be developing a drama series adapted from the ...
47th Street Black: 2003 ISBN 0-7394-3326-1: Blue Balliett: Chasing Vermeer: 2004 Blue Balliett The Wright 3: 2006 Bob Hartley Following Tommy: ISBN 978-0983104186: Bob Hartley North and Central: ISBN 978-0986092282: Brandy Colbert: The Revolution of Birdie Randolph: 2019 Brandy Colbert Pointe: 2014 Brian J.P. Doyle: Chicago: ISBN 978-1-25006 ...
Sandra Cisneros (born December 20, 1954) is an American writer. She is best known for her first novel, The House on Mango Street (1983), and her subsequent short story collection, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991).
Mike Royko's Boss (1971), written by a Chicago Daily News columnist, is a biography of the powerful mayor Richard J. Daley. The book provides a critical look at Daley's rise to power and at Chicago's political culture of "clout." [39] American Pharaoh (Cohen and Taylor) is a scholarly treatment of the same subject.