Once you ve become a part of this particular patch, you ll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real. Ernest Hemingway once said of Nelson Algren s writing that you should not read it if you cannot take a punch. The prose poem, Chicago: City on the Make, filled with language that swings and jabs and stuns, lives up to those words. In this sixtieth anniversary edition, Algren presents 120 years of Chicago history through the lens of its nobodies nobody knows: the tramps, hustlers, aging bar...
Once you ve become a part of this particular patch, you ll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier ...
Showcasing the first Ferris wheel, dazzling and unprecedented electrification, and exhibits from around the world, the World s Columbian Exposition of 1893 was Chicago s chance to demonstrate that it had risen from the ashes of the Great Fire and was about to take its place as one of the world s great cities. Millions would flock to the fair, and many of them were looking for a good time before and after their visits to the Midway and the White City. But what was the bedazzled visitor to do in Chicago?
"Chicago by Day and Night: The Pleasure Seeker s Guide to the Paris of America, a very...
Showcasing the first Ferris wheel, dazzling and unprecedented electrification, and exhibits from around the world, the World s Columbian Exposition of...
Known as much for his journalistic reporting as for the fiction he wrote under a variety of pen names, Bill Granger combined his divergent talents in his powerful novel Time for Frankie Coolin. With distinctive voices, compelling characters, on-the-ground observation, and suspense, it offers a serious, illuminating take on the changing tides of race, class, and politics in late twentieth-century Chicago. Time for Frankie Coolin tells the story of a plasterer turned landlord in Chicago who, in the late 1970s, buys abandoned buildings and makes them just habitable enough that...
Known as much for his journalistic reporting as for the fiction he wrote under a variety of pen names, Bill Granger combined his divergent talents in ...
Unreliable news minutes of the great people, and area, of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Yooper Times 1st Collection is an assortment of short news stories like no other. Tales from da Yeti Lodge, da Bait Mall, da Fish, Beer & Beard Show, City Hall and the now-legendary 8-Point Bar & Grill. Get to know people from every corner of da U.P., folks like our Mayor, da New Cop, the Dead Guy, One-Eyed Ray and Buck Fishen (Fishen Reports with Gil and Dirk plus those other two oofs). It's all about da people makin news above "da britch" yah, eh
Unreliable news minutes of the great people, and area, of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Yooper Times 1st Collection is an assortment of short news stori...
Fancy a tipple? Then pull up a stool, raise a glass, and dip into this delightful paean to the grand old saloon days of yore. Written by Chicago-based journalist, playwright, and all-round wit George Ade in the waning years of Prohibition, The Old-Time Saloon is both a work of propaganda masquerading as "just history" and a hilarious exercise in nostalgia. Featuring original, vintage illustrations along with a new introduction and notes from Bill Savage, Ade's book takes us back to the long-gone men's clubs of earlier days, when beer was a nickel, the pretzels were polished, and...
Fancy a tipple? Then pull up a stool, raise a glass, and dip into this delightful paean to the grand old saloon days of yore. Written by Chicago-based...
