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  • Exile in Guyville Music · 1990s

    Exile in Guyville is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Liz Phair, released on June 22, 1993, by Matador Records. It was recorded at Idful Music Corporation in Chicago between 1992 and 1993 and produced by Phair and Brad Wood. The album received acclaim and in 2020 it was ranked No. 56 by Rolling S...

    MigrationAfter-hoursLonging
  • Baccano! Anime · 2000s

    During the early 1930s in Chicago, the transcontinental train, Flying Pussyfoot, is starting its legendary journey that will leave a trail of blood all over the country. At the same time in New York, the ambitious scientist Szilard and his unwilling aide Ennis are looking for missing bottles of the immortality elixi...

    FolkloreMigrationIdentity
  • A Chicana girl grows up in Chicago. Identity, community, and the dream of a house of one's own.

    Urban isolationIdentityPower
  • Native Son Books · 1940s

    A young Black man in 1930s Chicago. Systemic racism and the violence it produces.

    PowerMemoryMigration
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