Works Cited
Blues Brothers, The. Dir. John Landis. Perf. John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, James Brown, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles. Universal Pictures, 1980.
This film gives an outlook on the importance of blues in Chicago. It also shows you many landmarks throughout the film.
Brooks, Gwendolyn. "the mother."
The Norton Anthology of American Literature Vol. 2 5th Edition. Ed. Nina Baym. New York: W.W. Norton's Company, 1998. 243.
The mother is a poem written by Gwendolyn Brooks. It gives you an outlook on the way that mothers feel when they go through an abortion. Mothers want to let their children live but it is not always possible. Abortion is not only something that takes place in Chicago, it takes place all over the world.
Dreiser, Theodore.
Sister Carrie. New York: Doubleday, 1997.
Sister Carrie was a character who wanted to experience the city life. It tells a story of a woman who traveled around Chicago and wanted to make it big in the Windy City.
Griffin, Venita. "Jazz Styles 101"
CenterStage 30 August 2005. 8 March 2006.
<http://centerstage.net/music/articles/jazz101.html> Jazz is a major part of Chicago music. This website gives you some insite on the Jazz culture and how it first arrived in Chicago.
Sandberg, Carl. "Skyscraper."
Chicago Poems. Urbana and Chicago: U of Illinois Press, 1916.
Carl Sandberg's poem "Skyscraper" talks about the landmark that Chicago is most famous for, the skyscraper which is the largest building in the world.
Wright, Richard.
Native Son. New York: First Perennial Classics, 1998.
In Native Son we explored the lives of African American in Chicago and the struggle they had to go through to make it. Even though times have changed things are still hard for minorities and Chicago still has many neighborhoods of different races.
