Recs if you like An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago...

I FEEL IT! books set in Chicago or where Chicago is important in some major way. fiction and non-fiction.

The J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize is an annual $10,000 award given to a book that exemplifies, "literary grace, a commitment to serious research and social concern." The prize is given by the Nieman Foundation and by the Columbia University School of Journalism.

round up of fiction books set in Chicago (for most or all of the story) or nonfiction books about the city