Chicago Review Press: 838 books
by Linda Waide, MSN, MEd
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
Fully revised to conform to the 2003 NCLEX Test Plan, this study guide and test includes hot spot,” fill-in-the-blank, and check-the-box questions to reflect the new test format with 10 written practice tests covering all the body systems, plus two additional practice tests on mental health and...
by Linda Waide, MSN, MEd
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Fully revised to conform to the 2004 NCLEX Test Plan, this study guide and test includes “hot spot,” fill-in-the-blank, and select-all-that-apply questions to reflect the new test format. Ten written practice tests cover all the body systems and two additional practice tests cover mental health...
Chicago History for Kids
Triumphs and Tragedies of the Windy City Includes 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
From the Native Americans who lived in the Chicago area for thousands of years, to the first European explorers Marquette and Jolliet, to the 2005 Chicago White Sox World Series win, parents, teachers, and kids will love this comprehensive and exciting history of how Chicago became the third largest...
Looking Backward
True Stories from Chicago's Jewish Past
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
The history of Jews in Chicago is a fascinating, complex and largely unknown story. Thanks to the unstinting efforts of Walter Roth, much of this history has been preserved. Now, for the first time, this material has been distilled into a single volume, chronicling events and people from the late...
Mob Cop
My Life of Crime in the Chicago Police Department
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Former Chicago police officer and mafia associate Fred Pascente is the man who links Tony Spilotro, the protagonist of Nicholas Pileggi's Casino and one of Chicago's most notorious mob figures, to William Hanhardt, chief of detectives of the Chicago Police Department. Pascente and Spilotro grew up...
Family Secrets
The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Painting a vivid picture of the scenes both inside and outside the courtroom and re-creating events from court transcripts, police records, interviews, and notes taken day after day as the story unfolded in court in 2007, this narrative accurately portrays cold-blooded-and sometimes incompetent-killers...
Chicago Flashbulbs
A Quarter Century of News, Politics, Sports, and Show Business (1987-2012)
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
"There is always a place for well-crafted, entertaining and informative essays and Chicago Flashbulbs fills that niche. Dr. Franklin's great enthusiasm and insights make these varied pieces both entertaining and memorable. His attention to detail in observing the human condition and his wry sense...
Ugly Prey
An Innocent Woman and the Death Sentence That Scandalized Jazz Age Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
An Italian immigrant who spoke little English and struggled to scrape together a living on her primitive family farm outside Chicago, Sabella Nitti was arrested in 1923 for the murder of her missing husband. Within two months, she was found guilty and became the first woman ever sentenced to hang...
Avengers and Defenders
Glimpses of Chicago's Jewish Past
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2008
Walter Roth delves deep into the archives of Chicago’s Jewish past, and provides a new collection of illuminating essays on its various aspects. Booklist said of his previous collection, Looking Backward: True Stories from Chicago’s Jewish Past, Roth writes about the well-known and the not-so-well-known,...
Deadly Valentines
The Story of Capone's Henchman "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn and Louise Rolfe, His Blonde Alibi
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
“An engrossing look inside Al Capone’s murderous ranks.” –Kirkus Almost before the gunsmoke from the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre cleared, Chicago police had a suspect: “Machine Gun” Jack McGurn. They just couldn’t find him. But two weeks later police found McGurn and his paramour,...
The Boys of Fairy Town
Sodomites, Female Impersonators, Third-Sexers, Pansies, Queers, and Sex Morons in Chicago's First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
A history of gay Chicago told through the stories of queer men who left a record of their sexual activities in the Second City, this book paints a vivid picture of the neighborhoods where they congregated while revealing their complex lives. Some, such as reporter John Wing, were public figures. Others,...
Hollywood on Lake Michigan
100+ Years of Chicago and the Movies
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Ranging from the dawn of the silent era to today’s blockbusters and independent films, this revamped second edition chronicles the significant contributions by Chicago and Chicagoans to more than a century of American filmmaking. Among the Windy City’s unique honors in this history are the development...
Golden
How Rod Blagojevich Talked Himself out of the Governor's Office and into Prison
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Revealing previously unreleased information from the Rod Blagojevich investigation, this narrative—written by two Chicago Tribune reporters who spent years sifting through evidence, compiling documents, and conducting more than 100 interviews with those who have known the former governor—is the...
Tinder Box
The Iroquois Theatre Disaster 1903
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
This the 100th anniversary of one of worst man-made disasters of the 20th century. When the Iroquois Theatre opened in Chicago on November 23, 1903, it was considered one of the grandest structures of its day, a monument to modern design and technology, as well as "absolutely fireproof."...