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.
Chicago Book Winners
by Frances Archer on 05. Oct, 2010 in Books
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 [...]
Chicago Book Giveaway
by Frances Archer on 28. Sep, 2010 in Books
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.
Reading Local
by Frances Archer on 27. Sep, 2010 in Books
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.
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