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The Breakaway
When Rocky Wirtz took over the Wirtz Corporation in 2007, including management of the Chicago Blackhawks, the fiercely beloved hockey team had fallen to a humiliating nadir. As …
Ghosts of Chicago
Chicago is famously a ‘city of neighbourhoods’ that somehow balances metropolitan and parochial life. In the seventeen vividly rendered stories in Ghosts of Chicago, John McNally …
Makeshift Chicago Stages
Since Chicago’s founding, theater has blossomed in the city’s makeshift spaces, from taverns to parks, living rooms to storefronts. Makeshift Chicago Stages brings together leading …
Chicago and Its Botanic Garden
Formed in 1890, during the heady days before the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, the Chicago Horticultural Society boasted members with names deeply rooted in Chicago history: …
Growing Up Chicago
Growing Up Chicago is a collection of coming-of-age stories that reflects the diversity of the city and its metropolitan area. Primarily memoir, the book collects work by writers …
Chicago Lawyers
The legal profession has grown immensely in size, diversity, and influence but some lawyers clearly have more influence than others. What determines the systematic allocation of …
A History of the Chicago Portage
This fascinating account explores the significance of the Chicago Portage, one of the most important—and neglected—sites in early US history. A seven-mile-long strip of marsh …
Big Bill of Chicago
To some he was a humanitarian and builder. Others scorned him as a fake and friend of gangsters with ""the carcass of a rhinoceros and the brain of a baboon."" This rollicking …
Chicago Portraits
The famous, the infamous, and the unjustly forgotten - all receive their due in this biographical dictionary of the people who have made Chicago one of the world’s great cities. …
The Ultimate Chicago Pizza Guide
The Ultimate Chicago Pizza Guide is your comprehensive guide to the styles, history, locales, and people who make the Windy City a prime destination for slices and pies. Most …
My Kind of 'Toon, Chicago is
An institution at the ""Chicago Sun-Times"", his home paper for more than twenty-five years, Pulitzer Prize - winning editorial cartoonist Jack Higgins gathers for the first time …
Southern Exposure
Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side is the first book devoted to the South Side's rich and unfairly ignored architectural heritage. With lively, …