Chicago Literature Online

Books, More Books, and even More Books

• Digitized Book of the Week (UIUC)
• Illinois Harvest
• Internet Archive

Interesting Online Reads

• “Chicago Antiquities” by Henry Higgins Hurlbut, 1881
• “If Christ Came to Chicago” by William T. Stead, 1894
• “OUR WISH FOR A HARD BATTLE: A Chicago Artilleryman’s Account of the BATTLE OF SHILOH” by Theodore J. Karamanski
• “The Book of Chicagoans” edited by John W. Leonard, 1905
• Encyclopedia Chicago
• The Whitechapel Club
• The Wicked City [Chicago] by Grant Eugene Stevans, 1906
• “A Day Under the Big Top: A Study in Life and Art” by Irving K. Pond, 1924

Literary & Book Organizations with Deep Roots

• The Caxton Club (1895)
• The Chicago Literary Club (1874)
• The Cliffdwellers (1907)
• The Society of Midland Authors (1915)

Notable Chicago Literature Online

• “A Son of the Middle Border” by Hamlin Garland
• “Twenty-Years at Hull House” by Jane Addams
• “Chicago Poems” by Carl Sandburg
• “The Pit” by Frank Norris, 1903
• “The Cliff-Dwellers” by Henry Blake Fuller, 1893
• “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair, 1906
• “Sister Carrie” by Theodore Dreiser, 1900