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Title: Chicago Days : 150 Defining Moments in the Life of a Great City by Chicago Tribune ISBN: 1-890093-04-1 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Most Interesting History Lesson of Chicago!
Comment: As a professional tour director and author I am always on the lookout for good information to share with my clients. When I took out a tour titled "A Week in Chicago" I needed a reference that would give me an insight to the city that guidebooks truly don't have.
This was the book that I luckily bought!
Here's 150 one or two page articles of the most defining moments in Chicago's history. I shared the stories about Chicago Deep Dish Pizza, the Black Sox Scandal, Reversing the River, John Dillinger's Death, The Bi-level Commuter Train, and of course, the Great Fire.
I was able to give fresh accounts of these widely varied events to tourist on their first trip to Chicago. These are the stories that mature people really want to know or remember. And this book delivers 150 of them.
Whether you're a tourist or a resident, this a book to treasure if you really want to appreciate this great city. It's a professional tour director's secret resource for Chicago.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Must Read
Comment: With excellent photography and sometimes gritty, big city narrative, Chicago Days is the sum of Chicago's history in an easy to read, fast paces, well written book that you won't put down until you reach the end.
Objective and very tongue and cheek at times, the educational and nostalgic value of this work can't be put into words. It will evoke powerful memories and feeling in Chicagoans and teach volumes to those from other cities. It would also make an excellent primer for those re-locating to Chicago from other countries, dispelling the popular myths about the City and its people.
Covering people, places, events and accomplishments with impartiality not always found in books about Chicago, this is a must read. It deserves six stars.
Rating: 5
Summary: Interesting, thought-provoking, and easy-to-read
Comment: "Chicago Days" is an excellent chronological summation of some of the important events that have occurred in Chicago over the past 150 years. Each event is given at least one page of written description and one photo. It is good occassional reading and has something of interest for almost everyone, making it a great gift. Some featured events are historic, some sports-related, some fads or 'firsts' out of Chicago, some frivolous and some heart-warming. You needn't live in Chicago to appreciate the stories, events and historic news items found in this book.
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Title: City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America by Donald L. Miller ISBN: 0684831384 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 03 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Chicago: Growth of a Metropolis by Harold Melvin, Mayer, Richard C. Wade ISBN: 0226512746 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: June, 1973 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Chicago at the Turn of the Century in Photographs : 122 Historic Views from the Collections of the Chicago Historical Society by Larry A. Viskochil ISBN: 0486246566 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 April, 1984 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Chicago Then and Now by Elizabeth McNulty ISBN: 1571452788 Publisher: Thunder Bay Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.98 |
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Title: Lost Chicago by David Garrard Lowe ISBN: 0823028712 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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