Study Abroad: ILLINOIS
Undergraduate Library Resources
Books - Films- Music Recordings
BOOKS
Travel
- Fodor’s Chicago - 917.73104 F683 2005
- Frommer’s Chicago - 917.731104 F927 2003
- Guide to Mountain Bike Trails in Illinois - Walter G. Zyznieuski and George S. Zyznieuski - 796.6309773 Z99G
History & Culture
- Chicago Blues: portraits and stories - David Whiteis - 781.64309773 W587c
- Gangs of Chicago: an informal history of the Chicago underworld - Herbert Asbury - 364 AS1GE2002
- Global Chicago - Charles Madigan, editor - 977.311 G51
- Illinois: a history - Richard J. Jensen - 977.3 J45i2001
- Insight: University of Illinois: photographs - Don Hamerman - Q. 378.77366 H179i
- No Boundaries: University of Illinois vignettes - Lillian Hoddeson, editor - 378.77366 Un3nob
Literature
Authors who were born or spent much of their career in Illinois.
- Classics: Margaret Ayer Barnes, Ring Lardner, Elia W. Peattie, Upton Sinclair, Richard Wright, James Jones, Ernest Hemingway, Edna Ferber
- Contemporary: Betsy Hearne, Ray Bradbury, Saul Bellow, Sandra Cisneros, Dorothy Cannell, D.C. Brod, Frederik Pohl, Cornelia Nixon
- Mystery/Thriller: James McManus, Sara Paretsky, Michael Raleigh
- Science Fiction/Fantasy: Terry Brooks, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Philip Jose Farmer, Fritz Leiber
- Poetry: Carl Sandburg, Gwendolyn Brooks, Li-Young Lee, Lucia Perillo, Archibald Macleish, Lisel Mueller, Vachel Lindsay, Edgar Lee Masters
FILMS
Non-fiction
- Al Capone - VIDREC 364.1Al101
- Baking Illinois - VIDREC 508.773 B179
- Chicago Bulls: the 1990’s - DVD 796.323 C432
- Chicago: city of the century - DVD 917.311 C432
- Chief: a historical documentary on Chief Illiniwek - VIDREC 305.897 C434
- Halsted StreetU.S.A. - VIDREC 977.311 H166
- Hoop Dreams - DVD 796.3230922 H766cr
- Illini Reflections with Special Guest Roger Ebert - VIDREC 378.7736 Il1
- In Whose Honor?: Indian mascots and nicknames in sports - 305.897 IN9
- Mr. Lincoln of Illinois - VIDREC 973.7 L63BM691
- Oskee Wow Wow: Illinois football: the first century - VIDREC 796.332636 OS4
- Portrait of America: Illinois - VIDREC 917.7304 P838
- Springfield Had No Shame: the Springfield race riot of 1908 - VIDREC 305.8 Sp84
Fiction
- Barbershop - DVD 791.43617 B233
- ER: the Complete First through Fifth Seasons - Multiple call numbers
- Little Caesar - DVD 791.4372 L722w
- Normal - DVD 791.436543 N78
- A Raisin in the Sun - DVD 791.4372 R1362
- The Sting - DVD 791.4372 St56u
MUSIC RECORDINGS
The items listed below are located in the Music Library.
2136 Music Building
1114 West Nevada Street
Urbana, IL 61801
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/mux/
- Champaign Underground - CDISC M1630.18 C414
- Complete Illinois Jacquet Sessions 1945-50 - CDISC M1366J225 C65
- Compositions from Urbana - CDISC M3.1 G678C6
- Europe Plus: choral & brass music at IllinoisStateUniversity - CDISC M1.14 E97
- The Illinois Concert - CDISC M1366 D6414
- In Concert with the University of Illinois Symphonic Band. #125 - CDISC M1200 U55no.125
- Live Recordings from the University of Illinois, 1949 Vol 1 & 2 - CDISC M20 H37L4v.1 & CDISC M20 H37L4v.2
- Marching IlliniPass in Review - CDISC M1270U64 M2
- Morgan Powell Jazz Album (with the University of Illinois Jazz Band) - CDISC M1366 P68M67C3
- University of Illinois Marching Illini - CDISC M1270U64 U6
Popular Musicians from Illinois: Chicago (rock), Fall Out Boy (rock), Kayne West (rap), Lou Rawls (R&B), Ludacris (rap), Miles Davis (jazz), Muddy Weest (blues), Nat "King" Cole (jazz), Smashing Pumpkins (rock), Styx (rock)
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