Digital Display | Chicago Urban Legends

This spring, we are celebrating our URBAN LEGENDS: FROM PLAYGROUND LORE TO CULTURAL NORMS programming, which includes exhibits, panel discussions, campfire zoom events, scavenger hunts, and more! Check out some titles available at the library that Chicago’s own legends and folklore…

Chicago Stories: Urban Tales, Stories, and Legends from Chicago History

The Great Chicago Fire and the Myth of Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow

Chicago’s Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Murderous Mobsters, Midway Monsters, and Windy City Oddities

Chicago Haunts: Ghostlore of the Windy City

Chicago’s Street Guide to the Supernatural

Windy City Ghosts

More Chicago Haunts: Scenes from Myth and Memory

Haunted Illinois: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Prairie State

Candyman (film)