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Chicago “L”, The (IL) (General Series)

April 18, 2011 By 3 Comments

Chicago “L”, The (IL) (General Series)

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Discover the worldfamous Chicago “L”–in all its grit and glory. The thundering “L” is one of Chicago’s most enduring icons. Operating 247 since 1892, it is not only an antique but a working antique. More than 10 billion people have ridden the “L,” which now carries half a million people a day over 222 miles of track. The heavy, rumbling “L” has a light side too. It is sought out by tourists, featured in major motion pictures, enjoyed by wideeyed kids, photographed by admirers, and studied by hi

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Pocket Guide to Chicago Architecture

April 15, 2011 By 3 Comments

Pocket Guide to Chicago Architecture

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“A handy guidebook that profiles a building per page, with a drawing and vital statistics on most of Chicago’s major historic and modern buildings.”—Chicago TribuneUpdated and expanded to chart the changing urban landscape of Chicago–as well as to incorporate a section on Chicago’s campus architecture, including works by Rem Koolhaas at the Illinois Institute of Technology and Frank Lloyd Wright at the University of Chicago–the second edition of this popular handbook is a perfect

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Family Affair: Greed, Treachery, and Betrayal in the Chicago Mafia

April 13, 2011 By 3 Comments

Family Affair: Greed, Treachery, and Betrayal in the Chicago Mafia

  • ISBN13: 9780425228319
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The true story of the vicious Chicago underworld from a New York Times bestselling author.

With a contract out on his life, Nicholas “Nicky Breeze” Calabrese turned government witness and revealed the truth about the murders of a notorious Mob enforcer and his brother-culminating in a criminal case that would challenge the Mob from the street to the highest seats of power.

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Reality Ignored: How Milton Friedman and Chicago Economics Undermined American Institutions and Endangered the Global Economy

April 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Reality Ignored: How Milton Friedman and Chicago Economics Undermined American Institutions and Endangered the Global Economy

Since 1962, when Milton Friedman published Capitalism & Freedom, the Chicago School has created one side of modern American political debate. Reality Ignored describes how Friedman’s views have framed policies for every conservative politician from Barry Goldwater to Ronald Reagan to the Tea Party. This book describes how Chicago policies have damaged American society by redefining the role of federal, state, and local government, by persuading American businesses to focus on short term profi

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The Beat Cop’s Guide to Chicago Eats

April 5, 2011 By 3 Comments

The Beat Cop’s Guide to Chicago Eats

When the Beat Cop pauses from taking a bite out of crime, he takes a bite out of donuts, polish sausage, fried chicken, enchiladas, and omelettes… Lake Claremont Press’s 2004 award-winner, The Streets & San Man’s Guide to Chicago Eats, delivered tongue-in-cheek style and food-in-mouth expertise by a certified expert of the City of Chicago’s Department of Lunch: streets & sanitation department electrician Dennis Foley. Now, Sgt. David J. Haynes of the Chicago Police Department, and his pa

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60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Chicago: Including Aurora, Northwest Indiana, and Waukegan

April 3, 2011 By 3 Comments

60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Chicago: Including Aurora, Northwest Indiana, and Waukegan

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Focusing on the Chicago area’s urban and rural areas and everything in between, this book features classic hikes at such lovely spots as Starved Rock State Park, as well as gems like the LaSalle Fish and Wildlife Area in northwestern Indiana. Extensive key-at-a-glance information makes it a snap to choose a hike based on length, difficulty, and scenery. Helpful lists highlight the best hikes for children, for wildlife viewing, and other categories. This edition includes five new hikes.

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365 Oddball Days in Chicago Cubs History

March 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment

365 Oddball Days in Chicago Cubs History

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This entertaining and informative reference reveals the Lovable Losers in all their beleaguered glory, from the real story behind the Curse of the Billygoat to Steve Bartman’s infamous bleachers grab. Delving deep into Cub history, it provides even the most dyed-in-the-wool uniform fan a full year’s worth of anecdotes, information, and team lore.

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Chicago: City on the Make: 50th Anniversary Edition, Newly Annotated

March 29, 2011 By 3 Comments

Chicago: City on the Make: 50th Anniversary Edition, Newly Annotated

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Ernest Hemingway once said of Nelson Algren’s writing that “you should not read it if you cannot take a punch.” The prose poem, Chicago: City on the Make, filled with language that swings and jabs and stuns, lives up to those words. This 50th anniversary edition is newly annotated with explanations for everything from slang to Chicagoans, famous and obscure, to what the Black Sox scandal was and why it mattered. More accessible than ever, this is, as Studs Terkel says, “the best book about Chica

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Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing (Historical Studies of Urban America)

March 26, 2011 By 3 Comments

Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing (Historical Studies of Urban America)

Blueprint for Disaster traces public housing’s history in Chicago from its New Deal roots through current mayor Richard M. Daley’s Plan for Transformation. In the process, D. Bradford Hunt chronicles the Chicago Housing Authority’s own transformation from the city’s most progressive government agency to its largest slumlord.             Challenging explanations that attribute the projects’ decline primarily to racial discrimination and real estate interests, Hunt argues

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Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago) Reviews

March 24, 2011 By 3 Comments

Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago)

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The Arts and Crafts movement in architecture, interior design, and decorative arts reached its peak between 1880 and 1910 in Britain and North America. The movement’s emphasis on aesthetic quality and a high level of craftsmanship, promoted as an antidote to the ubiquity and uninspired appearance of machine-produced products, remains much admired today. Arts and Crafts enjoyed special resonance in Chicago, the home of Jane Addams’s Hull House, where immigrants and women received training in

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