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Growing Up Chicago is a collection of coming-of-age stories written by Chicagoland authors that reflects the diversity of the city and its metropolitan area. Primarily memoir, the book asks, What characterizes a Chicago author?

Explores the significance of the Chicago Portage, one of the most important - and neglected - sites in early US history. A seven-mile-long strip of marsh connecting the Chicago and Des Plaines Rivers, the portage was inhabited by the earliest indigenous people in the Midwest and served as a major trade route for Native American tribes.

The definitive full-length biography of Jesse Binga, the first black banker in Chicago. Born into a large family in Detroit, Binga arrived in Chicago in 1892 in his late twenties with nothing. Through his wits and resourcefulness, he rose to wealth and influence as a real estate broker, and in 1908 he founded the first black-owned bank in Chicago.

When Rocky Wirtz took over the Wirtz Corporation in 2007, including management of the Chicago Blackhawks, the fiercely beloved hockey team had fallen to a humiliating nadir. Rocky's resurrection of the team's fortunes was - publicly, at least - a feel-good tale of shrewd acumen. Behind the scenes, however, it would trigger a drama of Shakespearean proportions. The Breakaway reveals that untold story.

Brings together the work of a wide range of Chicago theatre companies to share strategies for cocreating theatrical performance as an ensemble. Each chapter offers a short history of a Chicago company, followed by detailed exercises that have been developed and used by that company to build ensemble and generate performances.