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Please virtually join the Union League Club of Chicago on Wednesday, April 7 at 6:00 PM as we celebrate our rescheduled ULCC Outstanding Book on the History of Chicago 2021 Award and review the Honorable Mention and Award Winner.
To register click here. For more information or questions contact librarian@ulcc.org.
The Outstanding Book on the History of Chicago Award was developed to fill a gap in Chicago’s literary and cultural life by recognizing major contributions to our understanding of the city’s rich history. In this, the inaugural year of the award, there were ten book nominations published between 2019 – 2020, reviewed by a panel of five distinguished historians. On April 7, we will bring premier cultural and educational institutions in Chicago together to celebrate Chicago and the ULCC’s continuing engagement with the city’s evolving history.
Funding for the 2021 Award was generously provided by the Luminarts Cultural Foundation and ULCC Donors.
Balto, Simon. Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power.
Hayner, Don. Binga: The Rise and Fall of Chicago’s First Black Banker.
Kanter, Deborah. Chicago Catolico: Making Catholic Parishes Mexican.
Keating, Ann Durkin. The World of Juliette Kinzie: Chicago before the Fire.
Kraus, Joe. The Kosher Capones: A History of Chicago’s Jewish Gangsters.
Pacyga, Dominic A. American Warsaw: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of Polish Chicago.
Remus, Emily. A Shoppers' Paradise: How the Ladies of Chicago Claimed Power and Pleasure in the New Downtown.
Sites, William. Sun Ra’s Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City.
Smith, Carl. Chicago's Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City.
Weems, Robert. The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago: Anthony Overton and the Building of a Financial Empire.
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