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Chicago Lives

The books in Chicago Lives are by and about citizens who have played a significant role in the city’s history. Some are well known, others less so, but all have influenced the cultural, political, or social life of one of the world’s most dynamic metropol

Title Contributors Publication Date
Knocking Down Barriers
  • Truman Gibson, Jr. (Author)
  • Steve Huntley (Author)
2021
The First Lady of Olympic Track
  • Joe Gergen (Author)
2014
Long Way Home
  • Laura Caldwell (Author)
2012
Earl B. Dickerson
  • Robert Blakely (Author)
  • Marcus Shepard (Other)
  • John Franklin (Foreword by)
2012
Chicago Portraits
  • June Sawyers (Author)
  • Rick Kogan (Introduction by)
2012
Ghosts of Chicago
  • John McNally (Author)
2010
Dawn Clark Netsch
  • Cynthia Bowman (Author)
2010
Bridges of Memory Volume 2
  • Timuel Black (Author)
  • Lerone Bennett (Foreword by)
  • Valerie Gerrard Browne (Foreword by)
2008
Harold!
  • Antonio Dickey (Photographer)
  • Marc PoKempner (Photographer)
  • Salim Muwakkil (Text by)
  • Ron Dorfman (Editor)
2007
Sidewalks
  • Rick Kogan (Introduction by)
  • Charles Osgood (Photographer)
2006
Victims of Justice Revisited
  • Thomas Frisbie (Author)
  • Randy Garrett (Author)
2005
Challenging the Daley Machine
  • Leon Despres (Author)
  • Kenan Heise (As told to)
2005
Bridges of Memory
  • Timuel Black (Author)
  • Studs Terkel (Foreword by)
  • John Franklin (Foreword by)
  • DuSable Museum (Other)
2005
My Chicago
  • Jane Byrne (Author)
  • Paul Simon (Foreword by)
2004
Hog Butcher
  • Ronald Fair (Author)
  • Cecil Brown (Foreword by)

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