| chicago self guided walking tour: Moon Chicago Rebecca Holland, 2018-04-17 Moon Chicago reveals the Windy City's perfect mix of cosmopolitan culture and Midwestern charm. Explore the City: Navigate by neighborhood or by activity with color-coded maps, or follow turn-by-turn directions for a self-guided neighborhood walk See the Sights: Relax with the manta rays at Shedd Aquarium, listen to live music at Millenium Park, or take in some modern sculpture at the Art Institute. Venture onto the glass skydeck of the 110-story Willis Tower, or take a river tour of Chicago's historic architecture. Ride the Navy Pier Ferris Wheel, cheer on the Cubs at Wrigley Field, or grab a picnic basket, kick off your shoes, and watch the waves on Lake Michigan Get a Taste of the City: Sample Chicago beef at a classic steakhouse, grab a gourmet hot dog, or pick from dozens of high-end farm-to-table restaurants (but don't forget to try the deep-dish pizza!) Bars and Nightlife: Kick back at an authentic speakeasy before taking in a jazz show, or visit the famous Second City improv comedy club, where many of Saturday Night Live's stars got their start Trusted Advice: Local journalist and world traveler Rebecca Holland shares the secrets of her favorite city Itineraries and Day Trips: All accessible by bus, train, or public transit, including A Winter Day in Chicago, Chicago with Kids, and a week-long Best of Chicago plan Expert Tips: The best views, people-watching spots, romantic places, international cuisine, and more, plus advice for LGBTQ visitors, families with children, travelers with disabilities, and international visitors Maps and Tools: Background information on Chicago's history and culture, as well as full-color photos and an easy-to-read foldout map to use on the go With Moon Chicago's practical tips, unique experiences, and local know-how, you can plan your trip your way. Looking to experience more world-class cities? Try Moon Seattle or Moon Washington DC. Is Chicago just the first stop on a bigger adventure? Check out Moon Route 66 Road Trip. |
| chicago self guided walking tour: Doorways of Chicago Ronnie Frey, 2019-03-29 This book is chock full of over 100 photographs of gorgeous doors, windows, architecture and more, seen by the eye of designer Ronnie Frey. Through this visual narrative, he will inspire you to find portals into other realms and meditative states. You will get a taste of the rich and diverse cultural history of Chicago architecture and its neighborhoods as well as find relevant, thought-provoking messages reminding you to stay in the moment. |
| chicago self guided walking tour: Chicago Street Art Joseph J. Depre, 2011-04-30 |
| chicago self guided walking tour: The University of Chicago John W. Boyer, 2024-09-06 An expanded narrative of the rich, unique history of the University of Chicago. One of the most influential institutions of higher learning in the world, the University of Chicago has a powerful and distinct identity, and its name is synonymous with intellectual rigor. With nearly 170,000 alumni living and working in more than one hundred and fifty countries, its impact is far-reaching and long-lasting. With The University of Chicago: A History, John W. Boyer, Dean of the College from 1992 to 2023, thoroughly engages with the history and the lived politics of the university. Boyer presents a history of a complex academic community, focusing on the nature of its academic culture and curricula, the experience of its students, its engagement with Chicago’s civic community, and the resources and conditions that have enabled the university to sustain itself through decades of change. He has mined the archives, exploring the school’s complex and sometimes controversial past to set myth and hearsay apart from fact. Boyer’s extensive research shows that the University of Chicago’s identity is profoundly interwoven with its history, and that history is unique in the annals of American higher education. After a little-known false start in the mid-nineteenth century, it achieved remarkable early successes, yet in the 1950s it faced a collapse of undergraduate enrollment, which proved fiscally debilitating for decades. Throughout, the university retained its fierce commitment to a distinctive, intense academic culture marked by intellectual merit and free debate, allowing it to rise to international acclaim. Today it maintains a strong obligation to serve the larger community through its connections to alumni, to the city of Chicago, and increasingly to its global community. Boyer’s tale is filled with larger-than-life characters—John D. Rockefeller, Robert Maynard Hutchins, and many other famous figures among them—and episodes that reveal the establishment and rise of today’s institution. Newly updated, this edition extends through the presidency of Robert Zimmer, whose long tenure was marked by significant developments and controversies over subjects as varied as free speech, medical inequity, and community relations. |
| chicago self guided walking tour: Pocket Guide to Chicago Architecture (Norton Pocket Guides) Judith Paine McBrien, 2011-12-19 “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 Tribune Updated 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 companion for walking tours and an excellent source of background information for exploring the internationally acclaimed architecture of Chicago. Over 100 highlights of downtown Chicago are covered, from Michigan Avenue to the riverfront to the Loop, with accompanying maps, a glossary of architectural terms, and an index of architects and buildings. |
| chicago self guided walking tour: 111 Places in Chicago That You Must Not Miss Amy Bizzarri, 2025-03-10 |
| chicago self guided walking tour: Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House Zarine Weil, Frank Lloyd Wright, Cheryl Bachand, Brian Reis, 2010 |
| chicago self guided walking tour: Frommer's Chicago Day by Day Laura Tiebert, 2006-05-30 These attractively priced, four-color guides offer dozens of neighborhood and thematic tours, complete with hundreds of photos and bulleted maps that lead the way from sight to sight. Day by Days are the only guides that help travelers organize their time to get the most out of a trip. Full-color package at an affordable price Star ratings for all hotels, restaurants, and attractions Foldout front covers with maps and quick-reference information Tear-resistant map in a handy, reclosable plastic wallet Handy pocket-sized trim Features: An Architectural Walking Tour, Best Bets for Shopping, Art Lover's Chicago, and more Chicago Day by Day is the perfect answer for travelers who want to know the best places to visit and the best way to see the city. This attractively priced, four-color guide offers dozens of itineraries that show you how to see the best of Chicago in a short time--with bulleted maps that lead the way from sight to sight. Featuring a full range of thematic and neighborhood tours, plus dining, lodging, shopping, nightlife, and practical visitor info, Chicago Day by Day is the only guide that helps travelers organize their time to get the most out of a trip. Inside this book you'll find: Full color throughout with hundreds of photos and dozens of maps Sample one- to three-day itineraries that include tours of the Chicago Art Institute, the city's best architectural sights, Oak Park, and more Star ratings for all hotels, restaurants and attractions clue readers in on great finds and values Tear-resistant foldout map in a handy, reclosable plastic wallet Foldout front cover, with at-a-glance maps and quick-reference info |
| chicago self guided walking tour: World's Columbian Exposition Daniel Hudson Burnham, Francis Davis Millet, 1894 |
| chicago self guided walking tour: The Unofficial Guide to Chicago David Hoekstra, Alice Von Housen, Laurie Levy, 2009-03-30 From the publishers of The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World A Tourist's Best Friend! —Chicago Sun-Times Indispensable —The New York Times The Top 10 Ways The Unofficial Guide to Chicago Can Help You Have the Perfect Trip: Information that's candid, critical, and totally objective Hotels reviewed and ranked for value and quality—plus secrets for getting the lowest possible rate More than 70 restaurants reviewed and profiled, with listings for dozens more A complete guide to Chicago's sights—museums, architecture, ethnic neighborhoods, and more Complete information on Chicago's lakefront beaches and parks The inside story on shopping—where to get the best for less, on and off the Magnificent Mile All the details on Chicago's nightlife—jazz and blues clubs, dance clubs, concerts, theater, and more The best places to play golf and tennis, ride a bike, go boating, and work out Tips on enjoying Chicago with your kids Advice on how to plan and make the most of your business trip Get the unbiased truth on hundreds of hotels, restaurants, attractions, and more in The Unofficial Guide to Chicago—the resource that helps you save money, save time, and make your trip the best it can be. |
| chicago self guided walking tour: A Drop of Hope Keith Calabrese, 2019-02-26 Introducing an extraordinary new voice who shows us how powerful an act of kindness, a hint of magic, and a little hope can be. A book that reminds us of the kindness we are all capable of. -- Gary D. Schmidt, Newbery Honor winner and author of Okay For NowA well. A wish. And a little drop of hope.Times are tough. Jobs are scarce and miracles are in short supply. But something strange is happening in Cliffs Donnelly, Ohio. An old well has suddenly, impossibly, begun to grant wishes. And three sixth graders are the only ones who know why.Ernest Wilmette believes a good deed makes magic happen. Ryan Hardy thinks they should just mind their own business. Lizzy MacComber believes in facts, not fairy tales. Of course, you don't have to believe in wishes to make one.As more wishes are made, the well's true secret gets harder and harder to keep. Ernest, Ryan, and Lizzy know they can't fix the world. But in their own little corner of it, they can give everyone a little hope... one wish at a time. |
| chicago self guided walking tour: Van Gogh's Bedrooms Louis van Tilborgh, David J. Getsy, 2016-01-01 Catalogus bij de tentoonstelling van schilderijen die Van Gogh maakte van de slaapkamers in de 37 huizen waar hij gedurende zijn leven woonde. |
| chicago self guided walking tour: Chicago Cable Cars Greg Borzo, 2012-11-06 When most people hear cable car they think San Francisco. Yet for almost one-quarter of a century Chicago boasted the largest cable car system the world has ever seen, transporting more than one billion riders. This gigantic public work filled residents with pride--and filled robber barons' pockets with money. It also sparked a cable car building boom that spread to twenty-six other U.S. cities. But after twenty-five years, the boom went bust, and Chicago abandoned its cable car system. Today, the fascinating story of the rise and fall of Chicago's cable cars is all but forgotten. Having already written the history of the L, Greg Borzo guides readers through a stretch of Chicago's transit history that most people never knew existed--even though they have been walking past, riding over and even dining in remnants of it for years. . . |
| chicago self guided walking tour: The Ghosts of Charleston Julian Buxton, Ed Macy, Edward Macy, 2001 Includes ghost stories from the Aiken-Rhett House, the Garden Theater, and the Cooper River Bridge. |
| chicago self guided walking tour: AIA Guide to Chicago American Institute of Architects Chicago, 2014-05-15 An unparalleled architectural powerhouse, Chicago offers visitors and natives alike a panorama of styles and forms. The third edition of the AIA Guide to Chicago brings readers up to date on ten years of dynamic changes with new entries on smaller projects as well as showcases like the Aqua building, Trump Tower, and Millennium Park. Four hundred photos and thirty-four specially commissioned maps make it easy to find each of the one thousand-plus featured buildings, while a comprehensive index organizes buildings by name and architect. This edition also features an introduction providing an indispensable overview of Chicago's architectural history. |
| chicago self guided walking tour: DK Eyewitness Top 10 Chicago DK Eyewitness, 2017-03-21 True to its name, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Chicago covers all the region's major sights and attractions in easy-to-use top 10 lists that help you plan the vacation that's right for you. This newly updated pocket travel guide for Chicago will lead you straight to the best attractions this city has to offer, from walking down the Magnificent Mile to visiting Willis Tower to the Art Institute of Chicago. Find the best hotels, food, and attractions for every budget. Expert travel writers have fully revised this edition of DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Chicago. + Brand-new itineraries help you plan your trip to these areas of Chicago. + Maps of walking routes show you the best ways to maximize your time. + New Top 10 lists feature off-the-beaten-track ideas, along with standbys like the top attractions, shopping, dining options, and more. + New typography and fresh layout throughout. You'll still find DK's famous full-color photography and museum floor plans, along with just the right amount of coverage of history and culture. The perfect pocket-size travel companion: DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Chicago. Recommended: For an in-depth guidebook to Chicago, check out DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Chicago, which offers a complete overview of the city; thousands of photographs, illustrations, and maps; and more. |
| chicago self guided walking tour: Pizza City, USA Steve Dolinsky, 2018-09-15 There are few things that Chicagoans feel more passionately about than pizza. Most have strong opinions about whether thin crust or deep-dish takes the crown, which ingredients are essential, and who makes the best pie in town. And in Chicago, there are as many destinations for pizza as there are individual preferences. Each of the city's seventy-seven neighborhoods is home to numerous go-to spots, featuring many styles and specialties. With so many pizzerias, it would seem impossible to determine the best of the best. Enter renowned Chicago-based food journalist Steve Dolinsky! In Pizza City, USA: 101 Reasons Why Chicago Is America's Greatest Pizza Town, Dolinsky embarks on a pizza quest, methodically testing more than a hundred different pizzas in Chicagoland. Zestfully written and thoroughly researched, Pizza City, USA is a hunger–inducing testament to Dolinsky's passion for great, unpretentious food. This user-friendly guide is smartly organized by location, and by the varieties served by the city's proud pizzaioli–including thin, artisan, Neapolitan, deep-dish and pan, stuffed, Sicilian, Roman, and Detroit-style, as well as by-the-slice. Pizza City also includes Dolinsky's Top 5 Pizzas in several categories, a glossary of Chicago pizza terms, and maps and photos to steer devoted foodies and newcomers alike. |
| chicago self guided walking tour: The Devil In The White City Erik Larson, 2010-09-30 'An irresistible page-turner that reads like the most compelling, sleep defying fiction' TIME OUT One was an architect. The other a serial killer. This is the incredible story of these two men and their realization of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, and its amazing 'White City'; one of the wonders of the world. The architect was Daniel H. Burnham, the driving force behind the White City, the massive, visionary landscape of white buildings set in a wonderland of canals and gardens. The killer was H. H. Holmes, a handsome doctor with striking blue eyes. He used the attraction of the great fair - and his own devilish charms - to lure scores of young women to their deaths. While Burnham overcame politics, infighting, personality clashes and Chicago's infamous weather to transform the swamps of Jackson Park into the greatest show on Earth, Holmes built his own edifice just west of the fairground. He called it the World's Fair Hotel. In reality it was a torture palace, a gas chamber, a crematorium. These two disparate but driven men are brought to life in this mesmerizing, murderous tale of the legendary Fair that transformed America and set it on course for the twentieth century . . . |
| chicago self guided walking tour: The Laura Ingalls Wilder Companion Annette Whipple, 2020-08-04 Eager young readers can now discover and experience Laura Ingalls Wilder's books like never before. Author Annette Whipple encourages children to engage in pioneer activities while thinking deeper about the Ingalls and Wilder families as portrayed in the nine Little House books. The Laura Ingalls Wilder Companion provides brief introductions to each Little House book, chapter-by-chapter story guides, and Fact or Fiction sidebars, plus 75 activities, crafts, and recipes that encourage kids to Live Like Laura using easy-to-find supplies. Thoughtful questions help the reader develop appreciation and understanding of Wilder's stories. Every aspiring adventurer will enjoy this walk alongside Laura from the big woods to the golden years. |
| chicago self guided walking tour: Al Capone's Beer Wars John J. Binder, 2017 Based on 25 years of research using all available sources, this is the definitive history of organized crime in Chicago through the end of the Prohibition Era-- |
| chicago self guided walking tour: Being Small (Isn't So Bad After All) Lori Orlinsky, 2019-04-16 Being small is the worst! No one ever picks me for their sports team and my feet hurt from standing on my tiptoes all the time. There can't be anything good about being small‚]‚€‚]right? |
| chicago self guided walking tour: Istanbul's Bazaar Quarter Ann Marie Mershon, Edda Renker Weissenbacher, 2009 |
| chicago self guided walking tour: Wicker Park Elaine A. Coorens, 2003 Against the backdrop of Chicago's creation and development, the Wicker Park district's emergence and explosion as a vital contributing factor to the city's rich historic fabric is chronicled in Wicker Park from 1673 thru 1929 and Walking Tour Guide. A fascinating patchwork of people; buildings; companies; political, religious, social, and community organizations; and events, the book provides the reader with a window into life in Wicker Park in the mid 1800's through the early 1900's. The United States' civilization was laboriously pushing from east to west as Wicker Park's immigrant factory workers struggled for a better life; sea captains' brought the world to Chicago; and merchants, industrialists, bankers, politicians, physicians, priests, ministers, and beer barons met a myriad of challenges.Waves of immigrants started with Irish, German, Norwegians and were followed by Eastern European Jews and Poles. Easch brought the development of institutions, organizations, and buildings, many of which continue to survive and thrive in the twenty-first century Wicker Park Community.Stories about and from the people of those times clamor for the reader's attention, taking them on a roller coaster ride of emotions that range from amazement to belly laughs and salty tears.Early residents included: famous brewing families such as Uhlein (Schilitz Brewing Company), Legner (West Side Brewing Company), and Seipp (Seipp Brewing Company); future corporate moguls such as the Pritzker Family (Hyatt Hotels, Hammond Organ and McCall's Magazine), and Arie Crown family (Hilton Corporation, General Kynamics and the Rock Island Railroad); entertainment workd names such as Carl Laemmle, founder of Universal Studios, and movie impresario Michael Todd; as well as Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning author Saul Bellow.Whether you take an armchair tour or self guided walking tour of this historic Chicago neighborhood, your experience will be enhanced by more than 275 photos, illustrations, maps, and diagrams clearly relating how the district came to be and how it grew. Internationally renowned, Wicker Park is both on the National Register for Historic Places (1979) and a Chicago Landmark Neighborhood (1991). |
| chicago self guided walking tour: Art Deco Chicago Robert Bruegmann, 2018-10-02 An expansive take on American Art Deco that explores Chicago's pivotal role in developing the architecture, graphic design, and product design that came to define middle-class style in the twentieth century Frank Lloyd Wright’s lost Midway Gardens, the iconic Sunbeam Mixmaster, and Marshall Field’s famed window displays: despite the differences in scale and medium, each belongs to the broad current of an Art Deco style that developed in Chicago in the first half of the twentieth century. This ambitious overview of the city’s architectural, product, industrial, and graphic design between 1910 and 1950 offers a fresh perspective on a style that would come to represent the dominant mode of modernism for the American middle class. Lavishly illustrated with 325 images, the book narrates Art Deco’s evolution in 101 key works, carefully curated and chronologically organized to tell the story of not just a style but a set of sensibilities. Critical essays from leading figures in the field discuss the ways in which Art Deco created an entire visual universe that extended to architecture, advertising, household objects, clothing, and even food design. Through this comprehensive approach to one of the 20th century’s most pervasive modes of expression in America, Art Deco Chicago provides an essential overview of both this influential style and the metropolis that came to embody it. |
| chicago self guided walking tour: Evanston's Design Heritage Stuart Cohen, Kris Hartzell, Tom Hofmaier, Heidrun Hoppe, Laura Saviano, Robert Teska, Jack Weiss, 2020-06-15 An illustrated overview of the architects, designers and planners who have influenced Evanston's design history. |
| chicago self guided walking tour: Alchemy of Bones Robert Loerzel, 2024-03-18 On May 1, 1897, Louise Luetgert disappeared. Although no body was found, Chicago police arrested her husband, Adolph, the owner of a large sausage factory, and charged him with murder. The eyes of the world were still on Chicago following the success of the World's Columbian Exposition, and the Luetgert case, with its missing victim, once-prosperous suspect, and all manner of gruesome theories regarding the disposal of the corpse, turned into one of the first media-fueled celebrity trials in American history. Newspapers fought one another for scoops, people across the country claimed to have seen the missing woman alive, and each new clue led to fresh rounds of speculation about the crime. Meanwhile, sausage sales plummeted nationwide as rumors circulated that Luetgert had destroyed his wife's body in one of his factory's meat grinders. Weaving in strange-but-true subplots involving hypnotists, palmreaders, English con artists, bullied witnesses, and insane-asylum bodysnatchers, Alchemy of Bones is more than just a true crime narrative; it is a grand, sprawling portrait of 1890s Chicago--and a nation--getting an early taste of the dark, chaotic twentieth century. |
| chicago self guided walking tour: Rick Steves Istanbul Lale Surmen Aran, Tankut Aran, 2016-04-19 You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Istanbul. Following Rick's self-guided tours, you'll experience the wonders of East and West in this fascinating city—the capital of two great empires. Explore one of the world's largest domed churches, haggle with merchants in the exotic Grand Bazaar, and discover the secrets of the sultan's harem in Topkapi Palace. Wander through monumental mosques, shop along sophisticated avenues, and watch whirling dervishes in action. Cruise the Bosphorus for a quick trip to Asia, and end the day relaxing in a Turkish bath. Rick's candid, humorous advice will guide you to good-value hotels and restaurants in delightful neighborhoods. You'll learn how to get around on the city's trams and ferries, and which sights are worth your time and money. More than just reviews and directions, a Rick Steves guidebook is a tour guide in your pocket. |
| chicago self guided walking tour: New York, a Guide to the Metropolis Gerard R. Wolfe, 1975 |
| chicago self guided walking tour: NYC Walks John Hill, 2019-03-12 The first-ever walking tour guide of New York City's stunning contemporary architecture showcases the most intriguing new buildings in the city. It can be hard to keep up with New York City's surge of cutting-edge architecture since the turn of the millennium. This portable, easy-to-use guide directs readers to the city's newest architectural gems, all completed in the 21st century with some still under construction. Divided into ten 1- to 3-mile walks that extend from Columbia University through lower Manhattan and across to Brooklyn and Queens, this guidebook highlights over 150 buildings, popular destinations like the High Line and Lincoln Center, and trendy locations such as Williamsburg and the Bowery. Led by author John Hill, these tours are highly informative, engaging, and filled with fascinating insights and details. Maps and numerous photographs make this guide the perfect companion for anyone visiting New York City, architecture buffs, and those wishing to better know the city they call home. |
| chicago self guided walking tour: Georgetown Canden Schwantes, 2014 The images in this collection capture the diverse history of Georgetown. Georgetown, a thriving neighborhood in the nation's capital, was established in 1751 as an independent city. As the land to its east was being developed into Washington, DC, the once sleepy river town grew and evolved. George Washington's adopted descendants lived down the street from where Kennedy lived before Camelot; Julia Child walked past the home of Robert Todd Lincoln; and a successful community of free black Americans was built around the corner from what had previously been a slave market. Georgetown depicts the history of a community whose roots span far beyond the prestigious university and upper-class neighborhood for which it is known. The images capture mansions and slums, thriving businesses and crumbling facades, an industrial revolution, and the closing of the C&O Canal. |
| chicago self guided walking tour: Frank Lloyd Wright's Chicago Thomas J. O'Gorman, 2004 This book focuses on the area where Wright began his architectural career, illustrating more than a hundred of his designs in the Chicago region and nearby lake retreats. The full-color illustrations show the interiors and exteriors of some of the most famous, and some not so well-known, Wright designs and are accompanied by biographical notes that describe his life and career. |
| chicago self guided walking tour: A Rotten Person Travels the Caribbean Gary Buslik, 2008-05 If you look at a map, you will see that the island chain known as the Caribbean, or, to confuse you, the West Indies, lies between Florida and South America and resembles a string of gems or possibly drool. And so begins author Gary Buslik's tale of tropical adventure. Each chapter of this often hilarious and sometimes poignant travelogue recounts another island-hopping, culture-clashing crisis that pits the homesick author against falling coconuts, hospitals that remove wrong organs, insects as big and dangerous as stealth bombers, ticket agents that put him on hold for hours, mysteriously calculated currency exchanges, over-proofed rum, livestock, singing Rastafarians, garbage-bin sex, peanut-crazed children, Idi Amin, flesh-eating monkeys, dentists, cricket, steel drum bands, and the French. Fortunately, even when making fun of his West Indian hosts, the curmudgeonly author's essential good nature and devotion to his wife twinkle through, and in the end his stubborn geocentricity gives way to a heartfelt appreciation of his island hosts. |
| chicago self guided walking tour: 1000 Hours Outside Activity Book Ginny Yurich, 2021 A collection of outdoor activities designed for children to encourage exploration and interaction with nature. |
| chicago self guided walking tour: Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple Patrick F. Cannon, Frank Lloyd Wright, 2009 Unity Temple of Oak Park, Illinois, was considered a modern masterwork from the moment it was completed in 1908. Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) sought to produce a structure as dynamic as the congregation that would occupy it, finding inspiration in the liberal nature of Unitarian thought when creating the groundbreaking design. Wright's use of reinforced concrete was revolutionary for the time, making Unity Temple the first concrete monolith in the world. Inside, warm, inviting hues complement the red oak trim, and skylights and high clerestory art-glass windows fill the space with natural light. The building, which continues to serve its original purpose as a meeting-house for worshipers, is also admired for its superb acoustics. Wright was extremely proud of his design and wrote extensively about it in his autobiography. Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple: A Good Time Place provides an intimate tour of one of Wright's most beloved buildings. Architectural historian Patrick F. Cannon discusses the history of Unity Temple, from Wright's design proposals to its value today as a National Historic Landmark. More than forty-five artful color photographs by James Caulfield, along with historical photographs and floor plans, are featured, accompanied by Cannon's descriptive captions. This book celebrates the ingenuity of a master architect whose vision is evident in every element of Unity Temple. |
| chicago self guided walking tour: Not For Tourists Guide to Chicago 2025 Not For Tourists, 2024-10-01 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 providing important information on things like kid-friendly activities, public transportation, restaurants, bars, and Chicago’s art scene. Need to find the best deep-dish pizza hideouts around? NFT has you covered. How about a list of the top sports attractions in the famously sports-crazy city? We’ve got that, too. The nearest beach, jazz club, coffee shop, or bookstore—whatever you need—NFT puts it at your fingertips. This book also features: A foldout highway map Sections on the North Side, Near North Side, Near West Side, the Greater Loop, the South Side, and Greater Chicago More than 150 neighborhood and city maps It’s the only key to the Windy City that Rahm Emanuel can’t give you. |
| chicago self guided walking tour: Not For Tourists Guide to Chicago 2024 Not For Tourists, 2023-10-03 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 providing important information on things like kid-friendly activities, public transportation, restaurants, bars, and Chicago’s art scene. Need to find the best deep-dish pizza hideouts around? NFT has you covered. How about a list of the top sports attractions in the famously sports-crazy city? We’ve got that, too. The nearest beach, jazz club, coffee shop, or bookstore—whatever you need—NFT puts it at your fingertips. This book also features: A foldout highway map Sections on the North Side, Near North Side, Near West Side, the Greater Loop, the South Side, and Greater Chicago More than 150 neighborhood and city maps It’s the only key to the Windy City that Rahm Emanuel can’t give you. |
| chicago self guided walking tour: Not For Tourists Guide to Chicago 2016 Not For Tourists, 2015-10-27 With details on everything from the Magnificent Mile to Wicker Park, this is the only guide a native or traveler needs. The Not For Tourists Guide to Chicago is a map-based, neighborhood-by-neighborhood dream guide that divides Chi-town into 60 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 providing important information on things like kid-friendly activities, public transportation, restaurants, bars, and Chicago’s art scene. Need to find the best deep-dish pizza hideouts around? NFT has you covered. How about a list of the top sports attractions in the famously sports-crazy city? We’ve got that, too. The nearest beach, jazz club, coffee shop, or bookstore—whatever you need—NFT puts it at your fingertips. This book also features: • A foldout highway map • Sections on the North Side, Near North Side, Near West Side, the Greater Loop, the South Side, and Greater Chicago • More than 150 neighborhood and city maps It’s the only key to the Windy City that Rahm Emanuel can’t give you. |
| chicago self guided walking tour: Mad about Macarons! Jill Colonna, 2011-03-01 Guides readers through each step in making perfect Parisian macarons every time. |
| chicago self guided walking tour: Not For Tourists Guide to Chicago 2020 Not For Tourists, 2019-10-22 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 providing important information on things like kid-friendly activities, public transportation, restaurants, bars, and Chicago’s art scene. Need to find the best deep-dish pizza hideouts around? NFT has you covered. How about a list of the top sports attractions in the famously sports-crazy city? We’ve got that, too. The nearest beach, jazz club, coffee shop, or bookstore—whatever you need—NFT puts it at your fingertips. This book also features: • A foldout highway map • Sections on the North Side, Near North Side, Near West Side, the Greater Loop, the South Side, and Greater Chicago • More than 150 neighborhood and city maps It’s the only key to the Windy City that Rahm Emanuel can’t give you. |
| chicago self guided walking tour: Not For Tourists Guide to Chicago 2021 Not For Tourists, 2020-10-13 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 providing important information on things like kid-friendly activities, public transportation, restaurants, bars, and Chicago’s art scene. Need to find the best deep-dish pizza hideouts around? NFT has you covered. How about a list of the top sports attractions in the famously sports-crazy city? We’ve got that, too. The nearest beach, jazz club, coffee shop, or bookstore—whatever you need—NFT puts it at your fingertips. This book also features: • A foldout highway map • Sections on the North Side, Near North Side, Near West Side, the Greater Loop, the South Side, and Greater Chicago • More than 150 neighborhood and city maps It’s the only key to the Windy City that Rahm Emanuel can’t give you. |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: Moon Chicago Rebecca Holland, 2018-04-17 Moon Chicago reveals the Windy City's perfect mix of cosmopolitan culture and Midwestern charm. Explore the City: Navigate by neighborhood or by activity with color-coded maps, or follow turn-by-turn directions for a self-guided neighborhood walk See the Sights: Relax with the manta rays at Shedd Aquarium, listen to live music at Millenium Park, or take in some modern sculpture at the Art Institute. Venture onto the glass skydeck of the 110-story Willis Tower, or take a river tour of Chicago's historic architecture. Ride the Navy Pier Ferris Wheel, cheer on the Cubs at Wrigley Field, or grab a picnic basket, kick off your shoes, and watch the waves on Lake Michigan Get a Taste of the City: Sample Chicago beef at a classic steakhouse, grab a gourmet hot dog, or pick from dozens of high-end farm-to-table restaurants (but don't forget to try the deep-dish pizza!) Bars and Nightlife: Kick back at an authentic speakeasy before taking in a jazz show, or visit the famous Second City improv comedy club, where many of Saturday Night Live's stars got their start Trusted Advice: Local journalist and world traveler Rebecca Holland shares the secrets of her favorite city Itineraries and Day Trips: All accessible by bus, train, or public transit, including A Winter Day in Chicago, Chicago with Kids, and a week-long Best of Chicago plan Expert Tips: The best views, people-watching spots, romantic places, international cuisine, and more, plus advice for LGBTQ visitors, families with children, travelers with disabilities, and international visitors Maps and Tools: Background information on Chicago's history and culture, as well as full-color photos and an easy-to-read foldout map to use on the go With Moon Chicago's practical tips, unique experiences, and local know-how, you can plan your trip your way. Looking to experience more world-class cities? Try Moon Seattle or Moon Washington DC. Is Chicago just the first stop on a bigger adventure? Check out Moon Route 66 Road Trip. |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: Doorways of Chicago Ronnie Frey, 2019-03-29 This book is chock full of over 100 photographs of gorgeous doors, windows, architecture and more, seen by the eye of designer Ronnie Frey. Through this visual narrative, he will inspire you to find portals into other realms and meditative states. You will get a taste of the rich and diverse cultural history of Chicago architecture and its neighborhoods as well as find relevant, thought-provoking messages reminding you to stay in the moment. |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: Chicago Street Art Joseph J. Depre, 2011-04-30 |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: The University of Chicago John W. Boyer, 2024-09-06 An expanded narrative of the rich, unique history of the University of Chicago. One of the most influential institutions of higher learning in the world, the University of Chicago has a powerful and distinct identity, and its name is synonymous with intellectual rigor. With nearly 170,000 alumni living and working in more than one hundred and fifty countries, its impact is far-reaching and long-lasting. With The University of Chicago: A History, John W. Boyer, Dean of the College from 1992 to 2023, thoroughly engages with the history and the lived politics of the university. Boyer presents a history of a complex academic community, focusing on the nature of its academic culture and curricula, the experience of its students, its engagement with Chicago’s civic community, and the resources and conditions that have enabled the university to sustain itself through decades of change. He has mined the archives, exploring the school’s complex and sometimes controversial past to set myth and hearsay apart from fact. Boyer’s extensive research shows that the University of Chicago’s identity is profoundly interwoven with its history, and that history is unique in the annals of American higher education. After a little-known false start in the mid-nineteenth century, it achieved remarkable early successes, yet in the 1950s it faced a collapse of undergraduate enrollment, which proved fiscally debilitating for decades. Throughout, the university retained its fierce commitment to a distinctive, intense academic culture marked by intellectual merit and free debate, allowing it to rise to international acclaim. Today it maintains a strong obligation to serve the larger community through its connections to alumni, to the city of Chicago, and increasingly to its global community. Boyer’s tale is filled with larger-than-life characters—John D. Rockefeller, Robert Maynard Hutchins, and many other famous figures among them—and episodes that reveal the establishment and rise of today’s institution. Newly updated, this edition extends through the presidency of Robert Zimmer, whose long tenure was marked by significant developments and controversies over subjects as varied as free speech, medical inequity, and community relations. |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: Pocket Guide to Chicago Architecture (Norton Pocket Guides) Judith Paine McBrien, 2011-12-19 “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 Tribune Updated 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 companion for walking tours and an excellent source of background information for exploring the internationally acclaimed architecture of Chicago. Over 100 highlights of downtown Chicago are covered, from Michigan Avenue to the riverfront to the Loop, with accompanying maps, a glossary of architectural terms, and an index of architects and buildings. |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: 111 Places in Chicago That You Must Not Miss Amy Bizzarri, 2025-03-10 |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House Zarine Weil, Frank Lloyd Wright, Cheryl Bachand, Brian Reis, 2010 |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: World's Columbian Exposition Daniel Hudson Burnham, Francis Davis Millet, 1894 |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: The Unofficial Guide to Chicago David Hoekstra, Alice Von Housen, Laurie Levy, 2009-03-30 From the publishers of The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World A Tourist's Best Friend! —Chicago Sun-Times Indispensable —The New York Times The Top 10 Ways The Unofficial Guide to Chicago Can Help You Have the Perfect Trip: Information that's candid, critical, and totally objective Hotels reviewed and ranked for value and quality—plus secrets for getting the lowest possible rate More than 70 restaurants reviewed and profiled, with listings for dozens more A complete guide to Chicago's sights—museums, architecture, ethnic neighborhoods, and more Complete information on Chicago's lakefront beaches and parks The inside story on shopping—where to get the best for less, on and off the Magnificent Mile All the details on Chicago's nightlife—jazz and blues clubs, dance clubs, concerts, theater, and more The best places to play golf and tennis, ride a bike, go boating, and work out Tips on enjoying Chicago with your kids Advice on how to plan and make the most of your business trip Get the unbiased truth on hundreds of hotels, restaurants, attractions, and more in The Unofficial Guide to Chicago—the resource that helps you save money, save time, and make your trip the best it can be. |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: A Drop of Hope Keith Calabrese, 2019-02-26 Introducing an extraordinary new voice who shows us how powerful an act of kindness, a hint of magic, and a little hope can be. A book that reminds us of the kindness we are all capable of. -- Gary D. Schmidt, Newbery Honor winner and author of Okay For NowA well. A wish. And a little drop of hope.Times are tough. Jobs are scarce and miracles are in short supply. But something strange is happening in Cliffs Donnelly, Ohio. An old well has suddenly, impossibly, begun to grant wishes. And three sixth graders are the only ones who know why.Ernest Wilmette believes a good deed makes magic happen. Ryan Hardy thinks they should just mind their own business. Lizzy MacComber believes in facts, not fairy tales. Of course, you don't have to believe in wishes to make one.As more wishes are made, the well's true secret gets harder and harder to keep. Ernest, Ryan, and Lizzy know they can't fix the world. But in their own little corner of it, they can give everyone a little hope... one wish at a time. |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: Chicago Cable Cars Greg Borzo, 2012-11-06 When most people hear cable car they think San Francisco. Yet for almost one-quarter of a century Chicago boasted the largest cable car system the world has ever seen, transporting more than one billion riders. This gigantic public work filled residents with pride--and filled robber barons' pockets with money. It also sparked a cable car building boom that spread to twenty-six other U.S. cities. But after twenty-five years, the boom went bust, and Chicago abandoned its cable car system. Today, the fascinating story of the rise and fall of Chicago's cable cars is all but forgotten. Having already written the history of the L, Greg Borzo guides readers through a stretch of Chicago's transit history that most people never knew existed--even though they have been walking past, riding over and even dining in remnants of it for years. . . |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: Van Gogh's Bedrooms Louis van Tilborgh, David J. Getsy, 2016-01-01 Catalogus bij de tentoonstelling van schilderijen die Van Gogh maakte van de slaapkamers in de 37 huizen waar hij gedurende zijn leven woonde. |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: The Ghosts of Charleston Julian Buxton, Ed Macy, Edward Macy, 2001 Includes ghost stories from the Aiken-Rhett House, the Garden Theater, and the Cooper River Bridge. |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: AIA Guide to Chicago American Institute of Architects Chicago, 2014-05-15 An unparalleled architectural powerhouse, Chicago offers visitors and natives alike a panorama of styles and forms. The third edition of the AIA Guide to Chicago brings readers up to date on ten years of dynamic changes with new entries on smaller projects as well as showcases like the Aqua building, Trump Tower, and Millennium Park. Four hundred photos and thirty-four specially commissioned maps make it easy to find each of the one thousand-plus featured buildings, while a comprehensive index organizes buildings by name and architect. This edition also features an introduction providing an indispensable overview of Chicago's architectural history. |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: Pizza City, USA Steve Dolinsky, 2018-09-15 There are few things that Chicagoans feel more passionately about than pizza. Most have strong opinions about whether thin crust or deep-dish takes the crown, which ingredients are essential, and who makes the best pie in town. And in Chicago, there are as many destinations for pizza as there are individual preferences. Each of the city's seventy-seven neighborhoods is home to numerous go-to spots, featuring many styles and specialties. With so many pizzerias, it would seem impossible to determine the best of the best. Enter renowned Chicago-based food journalist Steve Dolinsky! In Pizza City, USA: 101 Reasons Why Chicago Is America's Greatest Pizza Town, Dolinsky embarks on a pizza quest, methodically testing more than a hundred different pizzas in Chicagoland. Zestfully written and thoroughly researched, Pizza City, USA is a hunger–inducing testament to Dolinsky's passion for great, unpretentious food. This user-friendly guide is smartly organized by location, and by the varieties served by the city's proud pizzaioli–including thin, artisan, Neapolitan, deep-dish and pan, stuffed, Sicilian, Roman, and Detroit-style, as well as by-the-slice. Pizza City also includes Dolinsky's Top 5 Pizzas in several categories, a glossary of Chicago pizza terms, and maps and photos to steer devoted foodies and newcomers alike. |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: DK Eyewitness Top 10 Chicago DK Eyewitness, 2017-03-21 True to its name, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Chicago covers all the region's major sights and attractions in easy-to-use top 10 lists that help you plan the vacation that's right for you. This newly updated pocket travel guide for Chicago will lead you straight to the best attractions this city has to offer, from walking down the Magnificent Mile to visiting Willis Tower to the Art Institute of Chicago. Find the best hotels, food, and attractions for every budget. Expert travel writers have fully revised this edition of DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Chicago. + Brand-new itineraries help you plan your trip to these areas of Chicago. + Maps of walking routes show you the best ways to maximize your time. + New Top 10 lists feature off-the-beaten-track ideas, along with standbys like the top attractions, shopping, dining options, and more. + New typography and fresh layout throughout. You'll still find DK's famous full-color photography and museum floor plans, along with just the right amount of coverage of history and culture. The perfect pocket-size travel companion: DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Chicago. Recommended: For an in-depth guidebook to Chicago, check out DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Chicago, which offers a complete overview of the city; thousands of photographs, illustrations, and maps; and more. |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: The Laura Ingalls Wilder Companion Annette Whipple, 2020-08-04 Eager young readers can now discover and experience Laura Ingalls Wilder's books like never before. Author Annette Whipple encourages children to engage in pioneer activities while thinking deeper about the Ingalls and Wilder families as portrayed in the nine Little House books. The Laura Ingalls Wilder Companion provides brief introductions to each Little House book, chapter-by-chapter story guides, and Fact or Fiction sidebars, plus 75 activities, crafts, and recipes that encourage kids to Live Like Laura using easy-to-find supplies. Thoughtful questions help the reader develop appreciation and understanding of Wilder's stories. Every aspiring adventurer will enjoy this walk alongside Laura from the big woods to the golden years. |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: The Devil In The White City Erik Larson, 2010-09-30 'An irresistible page-turner that reads like the most compelling, sleep defying fiction' TIME OUT One was an architect. The other a serial killer. This is the incredible story of these two men and their realization of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, and its amazing 'White City'; one of the wonders of the world. The architect was Daniel H. Burnham, the driving force behind the White City, the massive, visionary landscape of white buildings set in a wonderland of canals and gardens. The killer was H. H. Holmes, a handsome doctor with striking blue eyes. He used the attraction of the great fair - and his own devilish charms - to lure scores of young women to their deaths. While Burnham overcame politics, infighting, personality clashes and Chicago's infamous weather to transform the swamps of Jackson Park into the greatest show on Earth, Holmes built his own edifice just west of the fairground. He called it the World's Fair Hotel. In reality it was a torture palace, a gas chamber, a crematorium. These two disparate but driven men are brought to life in this mesmerizing, murderous tale of the legendary Fair that transformed America and set it on course for the twentieth century . . . |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: Frommer's Chicago Day by Day Laura Tiebert, 2006-05-30 These attractively priced, four-color guides offer dozens of neighborhood and thematic tours, complete with hundreds of photos and bulleted maps that lead the way from sight to sight. Day by Days are the only guides that help travelers organize their time to get the most out of a trip. Full-color package at an affordable price Star ratings for all hotels, restaurants, and attractions Foldout front covers with maps and quick-reference information Tear-resistant map in a handy, reclosable plastic wallet Handy pocket-sized trim Features: An Architectural Walking Tour, Best Bets for Shopping, Art Lover's Chicago, and more Chicago Day by Day is the perfect answer for travelers who want to know the best places to visit and the best way to see the city. This attractively priced, four-color guide offers dozens of itineraries that show you how to see the best of Chicago in a short time--with bulleted maps that lead the way from sight to sight. Featuring a full range of thematic and neighborhood tours, plus dining, lodging, shopping, nightlife, and practical visitor info, Chicago Day by Day is the only guide that helps travelers organize their time to get the most out of a trip. Inside this book you'll find: Full color throughout with hundreds of photos and dozens of maps Sample one- to three-day itineraries that include tours of the Chicago Art Institute, the city's best architectural sights, Oak Park, and more Star ratings for all hotels, restaurants and attractions clue readers in on great finds and values Tear-resistant foldout map in a handy, reclosable plastic wallet Foldout front cover, with at-a-glance maps and quick-reference info |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: Being Small (Isn't So Bad After All) Lori Orlinsky, 2019-04-16 Being small is the worst! No one ever picks me for their sports team and my feet hurt from standing on my tiptoes all the time. There can't be anything good about being small‚]‚€‚]right? |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: Al Capone's Beer Wars John J. Binder, 2017 Based on 25 years of research using all available sources, this is the definitive history of organized crime in Chicago through the end of the Prohibition Era-- |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: Art Deco Chicago Robert Bruegmann, 2018-10-02 An expansive take on American Art Deco that explores Chicago's pivotal role in developing the architecture, graphic design, and product design that came to define middle-class style in the twentieth century Frank Lloyd Wright’s lost Midway Gardens, the iconic Sunbeam Mixmaster, and Marshall Field’s famed window displays: despite the differences in scale and medium, each belongs to the broad current of an Art Deco style that developed in Chicago in the first half of the twentieth century. This ambitious overview of the city’s architectural, product, industrial, and graphic design between 1910 and 1950 offers a fresh perspective on a style that would come to represent the dominant mode of modernism for the American middle class. Lavishly illustrated with 325 images, the book narrates Art Deco’s evolution in 101 key works, carefully curated and chronologically organized to tell the story of not just a style but a set of sensibilities. Critical essays from leading figures in the field discuss the ways in which Art Deco created an entire visual universe that extended to architecture, advertising, household objects, clothing, and even food design. Through this comprehensive approach to one of the 20th century’s most pervasive modes of expression in America, Art Deco Chicago provides an essential overview of both this influential style and the metropolis that came to embody it. |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: Evanston's Design Heritage Stuart Cohen, Kris Hartzell, Tom Hofmaier, Heidrun Hoppe, Laura Saviano, Robert Teska, Jack Weiss, 2020-06-15 An illustrated overview of the architects, designers and planners who have influenced Evanston's design history. |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: Wicker Park Elaine A. Coorens, 2003 Against the backdrop of Chicago's creation and development, the Wicker Park district's emergence and explosion as a vital contributing factor to the city's rich historic fabric is chronicled in Wicker Park from 1673 thru 1929 and Walking Tour Guide. A fascinating patchwork of people; buildings; companies; political, religious, social, and community organizations; and events, the book provides the reader with a window into life in Wicker Park in the mid 1800's through the early 1900's. The United States' civilization was laboriously pushing from east to west as Wicker Park's immigrant factory workers struggled for a better life; sea captains' brought the world to Chicago; and merchants, industrialists, bankers, politicians, physicians, priests, ministers, and beer barons met a myriad of challenges.Waves of immigrants started with Irish, German, Norwegians and were followed by Eastern European Jews and Poles. Easch brought the development of institutions, organizations, and buildings, many of which continue to survive and thrive in the twenty-first century Wicker Park Community.Stories about and from the people of those times clamor for the reader's attention, taking them on a roller coaster ride of emotions that range from amazement to belly laughs and salty tears.Early residents included: famous brewing families such as Uhlein (Schilitz Brewing Company), Legner (West Side Brewing Company), and Seipp (Seipp Brewing Company); future corporate moguls such as the Pritzker Family (Hyatt Hotels, Hammond Organ and McCall's Magazine), and Arie Crown family (Hilton Corporation, General Kynamics and the Rock Island Railroad); entertainment workd names such as Carl Laemmle, founder of Universal Studios, and movie impresario Michael Todd; as well as Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning author Saul Bellow.Whether you take an armchair tour or self guided walking tour of this historic Chicago neighborhood, your experience will be enhanced by more than 275 photos, illustrations, maps, and diagrams clearly relating how the district came to be and how it grew. Internationally renowned, Wicker Park is both on the National Register for Historic Places (1979) and a Chicago Landmark Neighborhood (1991). |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: Mysterious Chicago Adam Selzer, 2016-10-25 From Chicago historian Adam Selzer, expert on all of the Windy City’s quirks and oddities, comes a compelling heavily researched anthology of the stories behind its most fascinating unsolved mysteries. To create this unique volume, Selzer has collected forty unsolved mysteries from the 1800s to modern day. He has poured through all newspaper, magazine, and book references to them, and consulted expert historians. Topics covered include who really started the great Chicago fire, who was the first “automobile murderer,” and even if there was actually a vampire slaying at Rose Hill cemetery. The result is both a colorful read to get lost in, a window to a world of curiosity and wonder, as well as a volume that separates fact from fiction—true crime from urban legend. Complementing the gripping stories Selzer presents are original images of the crime and its suspects as developed by its original investigators. Readers will marvel at how each character and crime were presented, and happily journey with Selzer as he presents all facts and theories presented at the time of the “crime” and uses modern hindsight to assemble the pieces. |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: New York, a Guide to the Metropolis Gerard R. Wolfe, 1975 |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: NYC Walks John Hill, 2019-03-12 The first-ever walking tour guide of New York City's stunning contemporary architecture showcases the most intriguing new buildings in the city. It can be hard to keep up with New York City's surge of cutting-edge architecture since the turn of the millennium. This portable, easy-to-use guide directs readers to the city's newest architectural gems, all completed in the 21st century with some still under construction. Divided into ten 1- to 3-mile walks that extend from Columbia University through lower Manhattan and across to Brooklyn and Queens, this guidebook highlights over 150 buildings, popular destinations like the High Line and Lincoln Center, and trendy locations such as Williamsburg and the Bowery. Led by author John Hill, these tours are highly informative, engaging, and filled with fascinating insights and details. Maps and numerous photographs make this guide the perfect companion for anyone visiting New York City, architecture buffs, and those wishing to better know the city they call home. |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: Georgetown Canden Schwantes, 2014 The images in this collection capture the diverse history of Georgetown. Georgetown, a thriving neighborhood in the nation's capital, was established in 1751 as an independent city. As the land to its east was being developed into Washington, DC, the once sleepy river town grew and evolved. George Washington's adopted descendants lived down the street from where Kennedy lived before Camelot; Julia Child walked past the home of Robert Todd Lincoln; and a successful community of free black Americans was built around the corner from what had previously been a slave market. Georgetown depicts the history of a community whose roots span far beyond the prestigious university and upper-class neighborhood for which it is known. The images capture mansions and slums, thriving businesses and crumbling facades, an industrial revolution, and the closing of the C&O Canal. |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: Frank Lloyd Wright's Chicago Thomas J. O'Gorman, 2004 This book focuses on the area where Wright began his architectural career, illustrating more than a hundred of his designs in the Chicago region and nearby lake retreats. The full-color illustrations show the interiors and exteriors of some of the most famous, and some not so well-known, Wright designs and are accompanied by biographical notes that describe his life and career. |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: 1000 Hours Outside Activity Book Ginny Yurich, 2021 A collection of outdoor activities designed for children to encourage exploration and interaction with nature. |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: Reconstructing Womanhood Hazel V. Carby, 1987 Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist, published in 1987, is a book by Hazel Carby which centers on slave narratives by women. Carby received her Ph.D. in 1984 from Birmingham University. Her doctoral dissertation later became the foundation for the book.--Wikipedia viewed Jan. 7, 2022. |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: The Rough Guide to USA Samantha Cook, Greg Ward, Tim Perry, Rough Guides (Firm), 2004 The Rough Guide to the USA is the most comprehensive and colourful guide to the fifty states available. There are lively accounts of every region and attraction from the bright lights of Broadway to the vast open plains of Wyoming. The guide gives refreshingly opinionated reviews of the established sights and landmarks as well as uncovering many of the lesser-known gems, allowing the visitor to make the most of their trip. There are feature boxes that provide information on a variety of subjects from the Delta blues to the geology of the Grand Canyon. There are also maps and plans to help you navigate around the major attractions, inner city streets or interstates |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: Chicago Food Crawls Soo Park, 2019-04-01 The essential guide to eating your way through the Windy City. In Globe’s newest approach to food by city, Chicago Food Crawls will take the reader on a fun, tasty culinary tour. Discover the hidden gems and long-standing institutions of Chicago neighborhoods. Experience more than 13 crawls, each featuring 3-8 establishments, centered on a neighborhood or theme. Each tour is the complete recipe for a great night out, the perfect tourist day, a new way to experience your own city, or simply food porn and great stories to enjoy from home. |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: Haunted Illinois Troy Taylor, 2008-05-05 Illinois's mysterious and often violent history has made the state a haven for restless spirits. |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple Patrick F. Cannon, Frank Lloyd Wright, 2009 Unity Temple of Oak Park, Illinois, was considered a modern masterwork from the moment it was completed in 1908. Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) sought to produce a structure as dynamic as the congregation that would occupy it, finding inspiration in the liberal nature of Unitarian thought when creating the groundbreaking design. Wright's use of reinforced concrete was revolutionary for the time, making Unity Temple the first concrete monolith in the world. Inside, warm, inviting hues complement the red oak trim, and skylights and high clerestory art-glass windows fill the space with natural light. The building, which continues to serve its original purpose as a meeting-house for worshipers, is also admired for its superb acoustics. Wright was extremely proud of his design and wrote extensively about it in his autobiography. Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple: A Good Time Place provides an intimate tour of one of Wright's most beloved buildings. Architectural historian Patrick F. Cannon discusses the history of Unity Temple, from Wright's design proposals to its value today as a National Historic Landmark. More than forty-five artful color photographs by James Caulfield, along with historical photographs and floor plans, are featured, accompanied by Cannon's descriptive captions. This book celebrates the ingenuity of a master architect whose vision is evident in every element of Unity Temple. |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: Not For Tourists Guide to Chicago 2025 Not For Tourists, 2024-10-01 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 providing important information on things like kid-friendly activities, public transportation, restaurants, bars, and Chicago’s art scene. Need to find the best deep-dish pizza hideouts around? NFT has you covered. How about a list of the top sports attractions in the famously sports-crazy city? We’ve got that, too. The nearest beach, jazz club, coffee shop, or bookstore—whatever you need—NFT puts it at your fingertips. This book also features: A foldout highway map Sections on the North Side, Near North Side, Near West Side, the Greater Loop, the South Side, and Greater Chicago More than 150 neighborhood and city maps It’s the only key to the Windy City that Rahm Emanuel can’t give you. |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: Not For Tourists Guide to Chicago 2024 Not For Tourists, 2023-10-03 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 providing important information on things like kid-friendly activities, public transportation, restaurants, bars, and Chicago’s art scene. Need to find the best deep-dish pizza hideouts around? NFT has you covered. How about a list of the top sports attractions in the famously sports-crazy city? We’ve got that, too. The nearest beach, jazz club, coffee shop, or bookstore—whatever you need—NFT puts it at your fingertips. This book also features: A foldout highway map Sections on the North Side, Near North Side, Near West Side, the Greater Loop, the South Side, and Greater Chicago More than 150 neighborhood and city maps It’s the only key to the Windy City that Rahm Emanuel can’t give you. |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: Not For Tourists Guide to Chicago 2016 Not For Tourists, 2015-10-27 With details on everything from the Magnificent Mile to Wicker Park, this is the only guide a native or traveler needs. The Not For Tourists Guide to Chicago is a map-based, neighborhood-by-neighborhood dream guide that divides Chi-town into 60 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 providing important information on things like kid-friendly activities, public transportation, restaurants, bars, and Chicago’s art scene. Need to find the best deep-dish pizza hideouts around? NFT has you covered. How about a list of the top sports attractions in the famously sports-crazy city? We’ve got that, too. The nearest beach, jazz club, coffee shop, or bookstore—whatever you need—NFT puts it at your fingertips. This book also features: • A foldout highway map • Sections on the North Side, Near North Side, Near West Side, the Greater Loop, the South Side, and Greater Chicago • More than 150 neighborhood and city maps It’s the only key to the Windy City that Rahm Emanuel can’t give you. |
| chicago self-guided walking tour: Mad about Macarons! Jill Colonna, 2011-03-01 Guides readers through each step in making perfect Parisian macarons every time. |
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Jan 1, 2025 · Post on the Reddit/interstingasf*ck posted by u/sabatoa. The 3rd and 4th images demonstrate how NYC dwarfs Chicago.
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Chicago if it were across the river from Manhattan
Jan 1, 2025 · Post on the Reddit/interstingasf*ck posted by u/sabatoa. The 3rd and 4th images demonstrate how NYC dwarfs Chicago.
METRO Next - 2040 Vision - Page 32 - Houston Architecture
Jul 31, 2018 · Chicago built the Block 37 station long before Musk was remotely involved in the express train to O'Hare concept. (The station structure was built in 2006-2008 and then …
Regent Square: Mixed-Use On Allen Parkway At Dunlavy St.
Jan 24, 2007 · Houston and Chicago are cities that blossomed at different times. Cars were not anywhere near an every family item in 1920. And yet Chicago has close to 3M people in 1920. …
Why is Editor in Chicago? - HAIF on HAIF - HAIF The Houston …
Feb 12, 2009 · Chicago is a great city, however like every city it has some major pitfalls.. As far as the job selection in Houston, its' industries could be more diverse. Go figure, I think this …
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Feb 13, 2025 · Reuters Link Quote "As the state with the largest number of NYSE listings, representing over $3.7 trillion in market value for our community, Texas is a market leader in …
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Feb 3, 2025 · Both stadiums are shown with Old Main Street Road dividing the two. The inner circle is the circumference of the domed stadium structure and the outer circle is the parking …
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Sep 13, 2004 · The Chicago Pizza Company - 4100 Mandell. Chaucer's - 5020 Montrose. Cody's (really a jazz club) - 3400 Montrose. Mrs. Me's Cafe - Dunlavy at Indiana. La Bodega - 2402 …
The Whitmire Administration Discussion Thread - Page 2 - City …
Jun 25, 2024 · Population dynamics are a curious thing. The Census bureau reported Chicago experienced a rebound in growth, too. I noticed that it was around the same as the number of …
Daniella Guzman comes back home to NBC 2 KPRC-TV …
Apr 24, 2014 · Prior to NBC 5 Chicago, Guzman was a weekend anchor and general assignments reporter at KPRC-TV in Houston. There, she covered hurricanes Daily and Gustav and was …
British Petroleum Chems Goes To Chicago Not Houston
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