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From 19th century trading post to one of the world's great financial, business, and entertainment districts, experience the growth and changes of the Windy City.
Chicago's famed Loop is said to have gotten its name from the route of a cable car that looped the central business district in 1882. Since then, much has changed.
This book captures the evolving urban landscape of the Chicago Loop, with a collection
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Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Windy City has to offer! Whether you're a born-and-raised Chicagoan, a recent transplant, or just passing through, “Chicago Curiosities” will have you laughing out loud as Scotti Cohn takes you on a rollicking tour of the strangest sides of the Windy City.
Watch Daedalus and Icarus fly across the façade of the Savings of America Building-and wonder...
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Rediscover the simple pleasures of a day trip with “Day Trips from Chicago”. This guide is packed with hundreds of exciting things for locals and vacationers to do, see, and discover within a two-hour drive of the Chicago metro area. With full trip-planning information, “Day Trips from Chicago” helps makes the most of a brief getaway.
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The mayor of Chicago needs your help! A museum is opening up a new exhibit on the greatest things in Chicago and needs YOU to collect the items. In Hide and Seek Chicago, readers explore their favorite city to find objects for the exhibit. From a statue of a lion at Lincoln Park Zoo, to an anchor at Navy Pier, children will love searching for the items among some of Chicago's most popular and iconic sights, including:
- Adler Planetarium
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Founded next to a great lake and a sluggish river, Chicago grew faster than any city ever has. Splendid department stores created modern retailing, and the skyscraper was invented to handle the needs of booming businesses in an increasingly concentrated downtown. The stockyards fed the world, and railroads turned the city into the nation's transportation hub. A great fire leveled the city, but Chicago rose again. Glorious museums, churches and theaters...
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"The Not For Tourists Guide to Chicago is a map-based, neighborhood-by-neighborhood dream guide that divides Chi-Town into sixty mapped neighborhoods from Gold Coast and Lincoln Park to Wrigleyville and Lakeview. Designed to lighten the load of already street-savvy locals, commuters, business travelers, and yes, tourists too, every map is dotted with user-friendly NFT icons that plot the nearest essential services and entertainment locations, while...
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"The Not For Tourists Guide to Chicago is a map-based, neighborhood-by-neighborhood dream guide that divides Chi-Town into sixty mapped neighborhoods from Gold Coast and Lincoln Park to Wrigleyville and Lakeview. Designed to lighten the load of already street-savvy locals, commuters, business travelers, and yes, tourists too, every map is dotted with user-friendly NFT icons that plot the nearest essential services and entertainment locations, while...
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"This isn't your average travel book--and these aren't your average tourist destinations! Take a wild ride through hidden Windy City history--often dark, sometimes inexplicable, and occasionally glamorous. Meet the gangsters, ghosts, serial killers and celebrities that only Chicago could produce. This journey into eclectic Chicago lore includes: 19 spine-tingling creepy sites (Resurrection Mary, Lonely Ghost of Lake Forest, St. Rita's and so many...
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Drinking in the Windy City has deep roots. Long before corner bars stitched the social fabric of Chicago's neighborhoods together, raucous pioneers like Mark Beaubien were fermenting over the untapped potential of the unbroken prairie. Take a determined saunter from the clamor of Chicago's first breweries, through the hidden passages of thousands of speakeasies and then back into the current of the contemporary craft beer revival. Follow a path plastered...
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Before you plan your familys next excursion, get some help from a travel professional and your kids! The Kids Guide series lets the kids help plan your trip and guides you as you explore your destination. Inside you will find kid tested tips on where to go, where to eat, what to see, and where to get the best souvenirs. Along the way, your kids will be engaged by reading and sharing fun acts and cool travel tips. Awesome games and quizzes keep the...
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Describes the history and people of the city regarded as the industrial capital of the Midwest.
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