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Essential Books These 5 items are available for $74, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXUSM32)		  
Eyewitness Guide Chicago  •  Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2010 •  PAPER  • 216 PAGES
This superb guide to Chicago features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a district-by-district synopsis of the city's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry. (USM70, $20.00)		   Eyewitness Guide Chicago
Never a City So Real, A Walk in Chicago  •  Alex Kotlowitz
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2004 •  HARD COVER  • 160 PAGES
Novelist Alex Kotlowitz, originally a New Yorker, traveled to Chicago in search of a story. What he found was much more -- a city of people who he feels characterize the "real" in America. It's a place where he has now lived for 20 years (and counting). He interweaves history, anecdote and biography in this brief, street-level view of the city and its everyday people. A Crown Journeys book. (GLK35, $16.95)		   Never a City So Real, A Walk in Chicago
City of the Century, The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America  •  Donald L. Miller
HISTORY •  2003 •  PAPER  • 704 PAGES
As blustery and swaggering as the Chicago of myth, this monumental biography of the city takes in the sweep of its history from the days of Joliette, Marquette and other explorers, to the celebrated 1893 Chicago Fair -- which drew more than 27 million people from around the world, the biggest attraction of its day. (GLK05, $18.95)		   City of the Century, The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America
Chicago's Famous Buildings  •  Franz Schulze  •  Kevin Harrington
GUIDEBOOK •  2003 •  PAPER  • 337 PAGES
Subtitled "A Photographic Guide to the City's Architectural Landmarks and other Notable Buildings," this pocket guide includes more than 160 of Chicago's classic legacy of buildings by Adler, Sullivan, Burnham, Root, Wright, and others. Organized geographically, it features Chicago's commercial canter, distinctive suburbs and a few outlying buildings of merit. With a black-and-white photograph of each building and short description. (USM15, $14.00)		   Chicago's Famous Buildings
Chicago Map  •  Borch Maps
MAP
A colorful, waterproof map of the Loop and city center of Chicago and surroundings, at a scale of 1:9,000. Two Sides. 19x26 inches. (USM19, $8.95)		  



Also Recommended

AIA Guide to Chicago  •  Alice Sinkevitch   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An authoritative, comprehensive guide to Chicago's neighborhoods, buildings and distinctive architecture. (USM25, $32.00)
 		  
City Walks Chicago  •  Henry De Tessan   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Explore the city with these 50 colorful, convenient cards, each with a map and suggested walking tour. (USM147, $14.95)
 		  
Fodor's Chicago's 25 Best  •  Fodor's   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A shirt-pocket guide to Chicago, this slim book includes an excellent map of the center of the city and essential information on its highlights. (GLK06, $11.99)
 		  
Frommer's Chicago Day by Day  •  Laura Tiebert   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A compact shirt pocket guide, ideal for a short visit, featuring remarkably good suggestions for everything from food to hotels, neighborhoods and shopping. With a separate foldout map of the city center. (USM101, $12.99)
 		  
Lonely Planet Chicago  •  Lonely Planet   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This practical guide to Chicago features maps, an overview of culture, history and nature, and a good deal of nuts-and-bolts information on excursions, accommodations and sightseeing. (USM88, $18.99)
 		  
Chicago, Growth of a Metropolis  •  Harold Mayer  •  Richard Wade   • HISTORY  •  A classic, beautifully illustrated history of Chicago. (USM34, $40.00)
 		  
Chicago, The Second City  •  A.J. Liebling   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A witty, wonderfully entertaining portrait of the city by the New Yorker writer who lived in Chicago for a year in 1952. His reports about life in the city unleashed a storm of protest, which Liebling gleefully addresses in his forward. (USM81, $17.95)
 		  
Nature's Metropolis, Chicago and the Great West  •  William Cronon   • HISTORY  •  A masterly thought provoking history of the transformation of Chicago from backwater to economic powerhouse. (USM17, $19.95)
 		  
Stud Terkel's Chicago  •  Studs Terkel   • HISTORY  •  This tribute celebrates Chicago, the home of the author, Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian Studs Terkel. Accompanied by black and white photographs, memories and reflections. (USM156, $19.95)
 		  
Lost Chicago  •  David Garrard Lowe   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A magnificent collection of photographs of grand buildings, now long gone, along with a history of the city. (USM32, $35.00)
 		  
Pocket Guide to Chicago Architecture  •  Judith Paine McBrien   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  This pocket guide features 100 of Chicago's architecturally significant buildings. (USM84, $21.95)
 		  
Boss, Richard J. Daley of Chicago  •  Mike Royko   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A groundbreaking account of the man and his political machine by Chicago's favorite columnist, published in 1970 while Daley was still in office. (USM28, $15.00)
 		  
Chicago Poems  •  Carl Sandburg   • LITERATURE  •  A collection of poems on the City of Big Shoulders, including "Chicago" and "Fog." (USM94, $2.50)
 		  
Loving Frank, A Novel  •  Nancy Horan   • LITERATURE  •  Fact and fiction blend in a historical novel that chronicles the relationship between Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney, from their meeting in Oak Park, when they were each married to another, to the clandestine affair that shocked Chicago society. (CHI80, $15.00)
 		  
Sister Carrie  •  Theodore Dreiser   • LITERATURE  •  Dreiser's absorbing first novel follows the fate of a young country girl in Chicago. Originally published in 1900, it's an excellent portrait of the young metropolis. (USM93, $5.95)
 		  
The Adventures of Augie March  •  Saul Bellow   • LITERATURE  •  A celebrated tale of a poor Jewish boy, rich in the life and atmosphere of 1930's Chicago. (USM27, $17.00)
 		  
The Devil in the White City, Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America  •  Erik Larson   • LITERATURE  •  This fascinating account of Chicago's 1893 World's Fair interweaves the true stories of Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the fair's construction, and H.H. Holmes, a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor, who terrorized its visitors. (USM123, $15.95)
 		  
 
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