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Chicago Book Award</h1> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="herospace-subhead"> <div class="container"> <div class="row justify-content-between"> <div class="col-12 col-lg-6"> <h2>Recognizing books that transform public understanding of Chicago.</h2> </div> <div class="d-none d-lg-block col-lg-4"> <div role="img" class="background-image--cover pt--100" style="background-image: url('https://www.newberry.org/uploads/transforms/_medium1x1/318246/Pattis-award-for-enews-11-1.webp');" aria-label="Missing aria label" title="Missing title"></div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="text-block"> <div class="container"> <div class="row justify-content-end"> <div class="col-12 col-md-6"> <p>The Pattis Family Foundation Chicago Book Award at the Newberry Library is presented annually to a book that transforms public understanding of Chicago, its history, or its people. </p> <p>The prize, established in 2021 by The Pattis Family Foundation in partnership with the Newberry Library, brings attention to publications that advance greater insight into the city among a general readership while resonating with the Newberry’s collections related to the history and people of Chicago.</p> <p><a href="https://www.newberry.org/news/the-pattis-family-foundation-and-the-newberry-library-announce-2024-chicago-book-award-recipient">Chicago author Thomas Leslie has received The Pattis Family Foundation Chicago Book Award for his book <em>Chicago Skyscrapers 1934-1986: How Technology, Politics, Finance, & Race Reshaped the City</em>.</a></p> <p>Nominations for the 2025 Pattis Family Foundation Book Award are now closed.</p> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="accordion accordion--primary"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-12"> <div class="content-header content-header--tertiary"> <h4>About the Award</h4> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-12"> <div class="accordion-item"> <button type="button" class="accordion-trigger"> <h2>Details</h2> <div class="button button--expand"> <span>Expand section</span> <svg class="icon icon--expand" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px" viewBox="0 0 26 26" style="enable-background: new 0 0 26 26;" xml:space="preserve"> <style type="text/css"> .st0{fill-rule:evenodd;clip-rule:evenodd;fill:#111A2A;} </style> <path class="st0" d="M12,14l-9-0.4v-1.1l9-0.4l0.4-9h1.1l0.4,9l9,0.4v1.1L14,14l-0.4,9h-1.1L12,14z"/> </svg> </div> </button> <div class="accordion-body"> <div class="row justify-content-end"> <div class="col-12 col-md-6"> <div class="text-block text-block-content"> <ul><li>The award-winning author(s) will receive a prize of $25,000.</li><li>The award will be presented at a public event at the Newberry Library and will include a lecture by or conversation with the prize winner, followed by a private reception.</li><li>The prize winner may be invited to 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The scope and nature of this engagement will be created to suit the award winner.</li></ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="accordion-item"> <button type="button" class="accordion-trigger"> <h2>Eligible Books</h2> <div class="button button--expand"> <span>Expand section</span> <svg class="icon icon--expand" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px" viewBox="0 0 26 26" style="enable-background: new 0 0 26 26;" xml:space="preserve"> <style type="text/css"> .st0{fill-rule:evenodd;clip-rule:evenodd;fill:#111A2A;} </style> <path class="st0" d="M12,14l-9-0.4v-1.1l9-0.4l0.4-9h1.1l0.4,9l9,0.4v1.1L14,14l-0.4,9h-1.1L12,14z"/> </svg> </div> </button> <div class="accordion-body"> <div class="row justify-content-end"> <div class="col-12 col-md-6"> <div class="text-block text-block-content"> <ul> <li>Any book, whether fiction or nonfiction, that promotes public understanding of Chicago; titles must be available for purchase by the general public in either hardcover or bound paperback form.</li> <li>All subject areas, disciplines, and genres are eligible, including but not limited to: history, biography, the social sciences, art, architecture, poetry, drama, graphic novels, or fiction.</li> <li>Translations, textbooks, anthologies, reprints or new editions of previously published works, pamphlets, digital publications, travel guides, children’s books, or self-published works are not eligible.</li> <li>Books by current Newberry staff members and books by authors who were members of the Newberry’s staff at the time the book was written are not eligible.</li><li>Books must bear a copyright of 2023 or 2024 to be eligible for the 2025 prize.</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="accordion-item"> <button type="button" class="accordion-trigger"> <h2>Criteria for Selection</h2> <div class="button button--expand"> <span>Expand section</span> <svg class="icon icon--expand" version="1.1" 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Newberry staff members and at least one but no more than two external members, all of whom have expertise in Chicago, its history, and its culture; and one ex-officio member from The Pattis Family Foundation.</p> <p>The Book Prize Selection Committee may select one or more submissions as "Shortlist Award Recipients." Shortlist Award Recipients also receive a monetary award.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="text-block"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-12"> <div class="content-header content-header--primary"> <h2>Award Recipients</h2> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container"> <div class="row justify-content-end"> <div class="col-12 col-md-6"> <h3 class="h3--alt">2024 Awardee</h3> <p>Thomas Leslie, <em><a href="https://bookshop.newberry.org/chicago-skyscrapers-1934-1986-how-technology-politics-finance-and-race-reshaped-city" target="_blank">Chicago Skyscrapers, 1934-1986: How Technology, Politics, Finance, and Race Reshaped the City </a></em>(University of Illinois Press)</p> <h3 class="h3--alt">2024 Shortlist Award Recipient</h3> <p>John William Nelson, <em><a href="https://bookshop.newberry.org/muddy-ground-native-peoples-chicagos-portage-and-transformation-continent" target="_blank">Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago's Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent</a> </em>(The University of North Carolina Press)</p> <h3 class="h3--alt">2023 Awardee</h3> <p>Toya Wolfe, <a href="https://bookshop.newberry.org/last-summer-state-street"><em>Last Summer on State Street</em></a> (William Morrow)</p> <h3 class="h3--alt">2023 Shortlist Award Recipient</h3> <p>Heather Hendershot, <a href="https://bookshop.newberry.org/when-news-broke-chicago-1968-and-polarizing-america"><em>When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America</em></a> (University of Chicago Press)</p> <h3 class="h3--alt">2022 Awardee</h3> <p>Dawn Turner, <a href="https://bookshop.newberry.org/three-girls-bronzeville"><em>Three Girls from Bronzeville</em></a><em> </em>(Simon & Schuster) </p> <h3 class="h3--alt">2022 Shortlist Award Recipients</h3> <p>Elly Fishman, <a href="https://bookshop.newberry.org/refugee-high-coming-age"><em>Refugee High: Coming of Age in America</em></a> (The New Press)</p> <p>Tim Samuelson, <a href="https://bookshop.newberry.org/louis-sullivans-idea"><em>Louis Sullivan’s Idea</em></a> (Alphawood Foundation; distributed by University of Minnesota Press). Edited and designed by Chris Ware</p> <p>William Sites, <a href="https://bookshop.newberry.org/sun-ras-chicago-afrofuturism-and-city"><em>Sun Ra’s Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City</em></a> (University of Chicago Press)</p> <p>Carl Smith, <a href="https://bookshop.newberry.org/chicagos-great-fire-destruction-and-resurrection-iconic-american-city"><em>Chicago’s Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City</em></a> (Atlantic Monthly Press)</p> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="mid-page-image"> <div class="container"> <div class="row justify-content-center"> <div class="col-12 "> <figure> <img src="https://www.newberry.org/uploads/transforms/Research/_autoLarge/510157/2024_Pattis_Award_011.webp" alt="" title="2024 Pattis Award" /> <figcaption class="image-caption"> <svg class="icon" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px" viewBox="0 0 26 26" style="enable-background: new 0 0 26 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