Uptown Chicago Resources
Sounds of Silents premiered at the Prop Thtr at 3502 N. Elston in Chicago. Image courtesy Prop Thtr.
Uptown in Poems, Plays, Essays, and Stories
- Books with an Uptown Setting (Fiction)
- Books About Uptown Chicago (Non-Fiction)
- “Down the Shore to Uptown”—A 1930s Vignette by Henry Justin Smith
- “Nirvana,” from 1001 Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht, 1921
- Balaban and Katz Magazine, 1925
- “Chicago” by Carl Sandburg
- Sounds of Silents (The Essanay Years) by Paul Peditto
- “The Delectable Ballad of Waller Lot” by Eugene Field
