You could easily live a lifetime in Chicago and never see the impressive Beaux-Arts facade, let alone the overcrowded hallways of the old Cook County Hospital. If that’s true, consider yourself lucky. Much depends on economic level and zip code.
With St. Patrick’s Day fast approaching, this is a good time to discuss how Irish immigrants shaped our lives in Chicago. And it’s not just about seeing the Chicago River turn green.
Hand-made ink, archery, dancing, needlework, chaperones, weekly baths, corsets, dinners of venison soup and raised giblet pie–suddenly, I was cured of my “Emma” envy.
Farrell’s South Side. Algren’s Near West Side. Bellow’s Hyde Park. And now the world can read about Martin Marcus’s Hollywood Park. It’s true. Hollywood Park, that far North Side neighborhood barely known outside its own vaguely defined borders, has joined the ranks of Chicago neighborhoods immortalized in fiction. Best of all, Marcus’s Hollywood Park is […]
Congrats to Neal Merle for winning a copy of this entertaining book. Due to a technicality, the first winner is unable to accept the prize, so the book goes to Merle, who was next in line. As I mentioned, I used a computer random number selection site to select the winner. Have fun exploring, Merle. […]
I’ve seen a lot of guides to Chicago restaurants but The Beat Cop’s Guide to Chicago Eats is so authentic, I can practically hear a flat, nasal accent grating in my ear as I read the words.
Any restaurant reviewer can name the top restaurants downtown and in trendy neighborhoods, but can they tell you where to get an honest-to-goodness satisfying meal for ten dollars or less in every corner of Chicago? According to Lake Claremont publisher Sharon Woodhouse, the authors of this book can.
Today I’m announcing the winners of Historic Bars of Chicago and Carless in Chicago, two Lake Claremont Press books, but first I want to thank you all for participating and explain how the drawing works. I assigned numbers to each name and wrote the numbers on scraps of paper. The crumbled pieces of paper were […]
I’m so excited about discovering Lake Claremont Press and its extensive list of books about Chicago, I’m giving away two books so you can discover this great resource for yourself. Leave a comment on today’s post to enter a drawing for Historic Bars of Chicago and Carless in Chicago.
Are you like me, one of those Chicagoans who never tires of reading about the city? Recently I discovered there’s a publishing house for people like us.
