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Chicago Cooks: 25 Years of Chicago Culinary History and Great Recipes from Les Dames d'Escoffier

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Agate Surrey: Aug-07

Seller ID: 126537

ISBN: 1572840900

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The past 25 years has seen Chicago transformed from a heartland stronghold of meat and potatoes into a major culinary center. Chicago Cooks chronicles this story through the eyes of the Chicago chapter of Les Dames d'Escoffier, female leaders in the food and dining world. They tell how the Chicago food scene grew and evolved, touching on landmark restaurants like Charlie Trotter's and Frontera Grill, the rise of ethnic cuisines imported from around the world, and the proliferation of shops, markets, and classes serving the ever more sophisticated home cook. The book also includes a boun...
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Global Chicago

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Price: $6.00

Publisher: University of Illinois Press: Aug-04

Seller ID: 278034

ISBN: 252071964

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

No Small Plans: Graphic Novel

By: N/A

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Chicago Architecture Foundation: Jan-17

Seller ID: 368979

ISBN: 997361514

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Chicago Stories: Tales of the City

By: N/A

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Chronicle Books: Feb-03

Seller ID: 414254

ISBN: 811839745

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Tales of the Great Lakes: Stories from Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Castle / Book Sales, Inc.: Jan-86

Seller ID: 417242

ISBN: 1555211208

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

They can be as still as a millpond, as angry as any storm swept ocean. The Great Lakes and the major states bordering them--Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota--are the heartland of America. The land supplies the goods: grain, meat, timber, and steel. The Lakes provide passage for those goods around the world. The two--land and water--are inseparable, their destiny interlocked.

Tales of the Great Lakes encompasses the stories of the men who built the Midwest--the giants of industry, builders of cities, intrepid seafarers, writers who chronicled the rise of the great metropolise...
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Ernest Hemingway: The Oak Park Legacy

By: N/A

Price: $4.00

Publisher: University Alabama Press: Jul-96

Seller ID: 444087

ISBN: 817308423

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Chicago World's Fair of 1893: A Photographic Record (Dover Architectural)

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Price: $6.00

Publisher: Dover Publications: Jun-80

Seller ID: 419271

ISBN: 048623990X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Originally conceived to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America, the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 was one of the largest (633 acres) and most influential aggregations of human talent, energy, and industry ever assembled. More than 27 million visitors entered the grounds (now Jackson Park) to marvel at the exhibits and displays housed in some 200 buildings, including those of 79 foreign governments and 38 states. Although the Fair had its share of "firsts" (original Ferris wheel, first midway, Edison's kinetoscope, etc.), its chief marvel was its architectur...
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The Chicago World's Fair of 1893: A Photographic Record (Dover Architectural)

By: N/A

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Dover Publications: Jun-80

Seller ID: 436709

ISBN: 048623990X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

OUR OLD TOWN: THE HISTORY OF A NEIGBORHOOD

By: N/A

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Old Town Triangle Assoc: Jan-01

Seller ID: 450360

ISBN: 9672296185

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Smokestacks & Skyscrapers: An Anthology of Chicago Writing

By: N/A

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Loyola Pr: June 1999

Seller ID: 462509

ISBN: 0829410139

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An anthology of short stories, novels, memoirs, plays, poetry, and essays includes such noted writers as Saul Bellow, Theodore Dreiser, Jane Addams, Carl Sandburg, Upton Sinclair, Edna Ferber, Lorraine Hansberry, and Nelson Algen.
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P.S. You Sound Like Someone I Can Trust

By: 826CHI

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 395317

ISBN: 1934750859

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul

By: Abbott Karen

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Random House: Jan-07

Seller ID: 203876

ISBN: 739491857

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul

By: Abbott Karen

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Random House: Jan-07

Seller ID: 435313

ISBN: 739491857

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul

By: Abbott, Karen

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: June 2008

Seller ID: 48853

ISBN: 0812975995

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Step into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history-and the catalyst for a culture war that rocked the nation. Operating in Chicago's notorious Levee district at the dawn of the last century, the Club's proprietors, two aristocratic sisters named Minna and Ada Everleigh, welcomed moguls and actors, senators and athletes, foreign dignitaries and literary icons, into their stately double mansion, where thirty stunning Everleigh "butterflies" awaited their arrival. Courtesans named Doll, Suzy Poon Tang, and Brick Top devoured raw meat to the delight o...
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