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Books : Travel : United States : States : Illinois
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Dozens of Top 10 lists - from Chicago's Top 10 skyscapers to the Top 10 places to eat, the best ethnic neighborhoods, jazz and blues joints, museums and events - lead you to the very best Chicago has to offer.
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From skyscrapers to sports, from blues to bratwursts, and from the Magnificent Mile to the magnificent lakefront, Chicago has it all! This pocket guidebook, including user-friendly fold-out maps and insider tips, will walk you through the best that Chicago has to offer. ''Top Picks'' direct you to not-to-be-missed attractions, and handy ''Notes'' pages are included to jot down all your favorites. This indespensible guide to the Windy City tells you what to see and do, and where to eat, drink, shop, stay, and play-- from the Art Institute to Wrigley Field, to Oak Park and beyond! Local author and journalist Margaret Littman is a frequent contributor to 'Chicago magazine', 'Wine Enthusiast', 'TimeOut Chicago', and several other travel publications. 215 pages, plus 11 fold-out maps.
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- insider tips on Chicago's nightlife, from side-splitting comedy clubs to lively watering holes- useful advice for riding the El to see and explore many of the city's most interesting neighborhoods- extensive range of accommodation, eating, and shopping options- walking tours reveal Chicago's stunning architecture
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Includes: the North Side, the Downtown Core, South Loop, Near South Side, South Side, and to parts further outside the city.
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Chicago residents grab your boots and get outside! Using clear and entertaining narrative, 60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Chicago eliminates doubts about where to hike and what to expect when you get to the trailhead. To locate and assess the best hikes within a 60-mile radius of the Chicago area, this guide is indispensable. 60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Chicago blows the lid off the myth that you can't have a great trek close to home. The Windy City may be an ever-expanding metropolis, but there are still plenty of thrilling hiking options. Choose among short and long hikes, hikes for children, hikes for dogs, hikes for birding, for wildflowers and for waterfalls, historic and scenic hikes, and many others.
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Let Frommer's show you where your kids can:- Crawl inside a coal mine
- Anchor their very own newscast
- Root, root, root for the home team
- Cruise the waterways on a private boat
- Spend an exhilarating night at the theatre
- Roll out a sleeping bag with the dinosaurs
- Ride through city canyons on an elevated train
- Discover Chicago's parks and all they have to offer
- Devour a Chicago red hot or a slice of deep-dish pizza
- Have a good time without breaking the bank
Plus invaluable travel tips on:
- Age ranges for each sight and activity
- Hotels that offer cribs and rollaway beds
- Restaurants with kids' menus, boosters, and high chairs
- Shopping for everything from baby booties to blues music
- A Chicago parent's words of wisdom on safety in the city
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The first choice of outdoors enthusiasts. Beautiful, detailed, large-format maps of every state. Perfect for home and office reference, and a must for all your vehicles. Gazetteer information may include: campgrounds, attractions, historic sites & museums, recreation areas, trails, freshwater fishing site & boat launches, canoe trips or scenic drives. Categories vary by state
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These attractively priced, four-color guides offer dozens of neighborhood and thematic tours, complete with hundreds of photos and bulleted maps that lead the way from sight to sight. Day by Days are the only guides that help travelers organize their time to get the most out of a trip.- Full-color package at an affordable price
- Star ratings for all hotels, restaurants, and attractions
- Foldout front covers with maps and quick-reference information
- Tear-resistant map in a handy, reclosable plastic wallet
- Handy pocket-sized trim
Features: An Architectural Walking Tour, Best Bets for Shopping, Art Lover's Chicago, and more
Chicago Day by Day is the perfect answer for travelers who want to know the best places to visit and the best way to see the city. This attractively priced, four-color guide offers dozens of itineraries that show you how to see the best of Chicago in a short time--with bulleted maps that lead the way from sight to sight. Featuring a full range of thematic and neighborhood tours, plus dining, lodging, shopping, nightlife, and practical visitor info, Chicago Day by Day is the only guide that helps travelers organize their time to get the most out of a trip. Inside this book you'll find:
- Full color throughout with hundreds of photos and dozens of maps
- Sample one- to three-day itineraries that include tours of t
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The acclaimed author of There Are No Children Here takes us into the heart of Chicago by introducing us to some of the city’s most interesting, if not always celebrated, people.
Chicago is one of America’s most iconic, historic, and fascinating cities, as well as a major travel destination. For Alex Kotlowitz, an accidental Chicagoan, it is the perfect perch from which to peer into America’s heart. It’s a place, as one historian has said, of “messy vitalities,” a stew of contradictions: coarse yet gentle, idealistic yet restrained, grappling with its promise, alternately sure and unsure of itself.
Chicago, like America, is a kind of refuge for outsiders. It’s probably why Alex Kotlowitz found comfort there. He’s drawn to people on the outside who are trying to clean up—or at least make sense of—the mess on the inside. Perspective doesn’t come easy if you’re standing in the center. As with There Are No Children Here, Never a City So Real is not so much a tour of a place as a chronicle of its soul, its lifeblood. It is a tour of the people of Chicago, who have been the author’s guides into this city’s—and in a broader sense, this country’s—heart.
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Streetwise Chicago Bus, CTA & Metra Map - Laminated Chicago Metro Map - Folding pocket & wallet size metro map for travel
This map covers the following areas:
Chicago CTA Map
Chicago Metra Map
Downtown Chicago Bus Map 1:20,000
The STREETWISE® Chicago Minimetro Map is an invaluable tool for getting around on the city’s public transportation system. Unfolded it's the size of a legal envelope, folded into thirds it's about the size of a credit card, conveniently fitting into your shirt pocket, wallet or purse.
The front side depicts downtown Chicago with bus routes, traveling east west and north south directions. Major sites are also designated.
The flip side presents the CTA and METRA routes leading into and out of the city connecting you with major suburban towns and airports. This little map makes getting around Chicago, Illinois via bus or subway a snap.
Our pocket size metro map of Chicago is also laminated for durability and accordion folding for effortless use. The STREETWISE® Chicago metro map is one of several detailed and easy-to-read maps designed and published by STREETWISE®. Buy your STREETWISE® Chicago metro map today and you too can navigate Chicago like a native. For a larger selection of our detailed travel maps simply type STREETWISE MAPS into the Amazon search bar.
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This is the story of Chicago and how it grew. In a little over a century it rose from a mere frontier outpost to become one of the great cities of the world. No single book can possibly encompass the immense scope of this development or convey the endless diversity of the life of Chicago's people. But with the help of the camera it is possible to capture many dimensions of this extraordinary story.
This volume, however, which comprises over 1,000 pictures and 50 maps, tries to do more than show physical development—it attempts to suggest how the city expanded and why it looks the way it does. Because it asks different questions, this book differs markedly from other "pictorial histories" of American cities. Instead of emphasizing society and customs, this volume deals with the physical conditions of life. In place of the conventional interest in "founding fathers" and leading families, it is more concerned with street scenes and ordinary people. Without neglecting downtown, it also reaches into the residential areas and neighborhood shopping centers. Moreover, this volume is concerned with suburbs and "satellite" towns as well as the historic city.
"Chicago: Growth of a Metropolis is an incredible book. Like its subject it is excessive, and nothing succeeds like excess. It is handsomely designed, with a thousand photographs that document the physical growth and the spatial patterns of the city. . . . A dimensionalism comes through that no other city has. Carl Sandburg sang it in his poetry, and the book does more to grasp it . . . than any other book I have seen."—Hugh Newell Jacobson, New Republic
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Compiled by the magazine's travel experts, and by the extraordinary network of international correspondents, the guides are truly the insider's guide to each featured city. Both people who live there, as well as the well-travelled editorial team of "Wallpaper*", have put their heads together to come up with a fascinating, efficient guide that keeps the hip, urban traveler with his/her finger on the pulse. The "Wallpaper* City Guides" are especially useful for the weekend tourist, and the business traveller. If you only have 24 hours to discover a city, each guide offers an exact hour-to-hour plan of what to see, eat, and purchase. For those travelling for a weekend, the guides even go as far as to tell you what you could see for a day-trip outside the city. The "City Guides" are being published as "Wallpaper*" magazine celebrates its 10th anniversary. For a decade, "Wallpaper*" has been the first to uncover and present enticingly the best in new design and urban travel spots from across the globe. The "City Guides" are the perfect way to present a decade of experience in one precisely edited guide to each of the 20 new cities to be published in Fall 2007, bringing the total number of guides available to 60.
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Travel writer Christine des Garennes has lived in her adopted home of Illinois for over a decade, and in Moon Illinois she shares her insider knowledge on the best ways to explore the heart of America. Beyond Chicago and the tourist-friendly Wrigley Field and Lincoln Park Zoo, des Garennes takes travelers into agricultural country, where local farmer's markets reign in the central region of Illinois known as the Grand Prairie. She also provides unique trip strategies for a variety of travelers, including Day-Tripping Around Chicago and Outdoor Adventure in Southern Illinois. From touring the Frank Lloyd Wright homes of Oak Park to hiking along the Little Grand Canyon Scenic Trail, Moon Illinois gives travelers the tools they need to create a more personal and memorable experience.
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This is the only guidebook to focus solely on rail trails in the Prairie State. From the Chicago area’s Prairie Pathone of America’s first rail trailsto trails in the vicinity of St. Louis, as well as numerous other urban, suburban, and rural rail trails statewide, it covers all the best routes. Factual details include length, elevation profiles, availability of restrooms, accommodations, area attractions, and directions to all main trailheads.
Also available:
Best Rail Trails California (09; 2008; 978-0-7627-4677-4)
Best Rail Trails New England (05/2009; 978-0-7627-4584-5)
Best Rail Trails Pacific Northwest (01/2009; 978-0-7627-4607-1)
Best Rail Trails Wisconsin (01/2009; 978-0-7627-4676-7)
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Use this book to find the unusual Gold Pyramid House; speak to Superman in the town of Metropolis; and discover other unique Illinois locales.
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This is your complete guide to the most interesting and scenic day hiking trails in Illinois. No matter what part of the state you want to explore or how easy or hard a trek you want, this handy book will lead you to the right trail.Hiking Illinois features the following:
- Detailed descriptions of 100 trails, including the length of trail, estimated time to hike it, and a difficulty rating
- 143 easy-to-read park and trail maps
- A map of each featured trail, with the points of interest labeled and their distances from the trailhead given
- Practical information on how to get to parks, the park hours, available facilities, permits and rules, and a contact address and phone number
- A convenient trail-finder grid, which provides a summary of each trail's features and location in the book
- A section on nearby points of interest, with contact phone numbersHiking Illinois makes it easy to enjoy self-guided tours of trails in scenic areas in the north, central, and south sections of the state. You'll discover beautiful trails in 59 featured spots, including Bell Smith Springs Recreation Area, Moraine Hills State Park, Beall Woods, and Mississippi Palisades State Park.
Author Susan Post is a professional naturalist and a native of Illinois who brings to life the history, terrain, flora, an
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Chicago's Street Guide to the Supernatural by Richard T. Crowe is a personally guided tour to local haunts and mysterious sites. All areas of Chicagoland and suburbs are covered and exact directions and field notes compliment the history of each location.
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There is more to Illinois than just cornfields and the Windy City. The Land of Lincoln has plenty of fascinating people, places, and things with unique and bizarre histories. Find these under-appreciated destinations the local Chamber of Commerce would love to forget: The Deli Sliced Duo; Popeye's Hometown; America's one and Only Hippie Memorial; Jesus in a Tree; Wild green parrots in the heart of Chicago; Scarlett O'Hara's green curtains; The Devil Baby of Hull House; A double-decker outhouse; Statues that weep; and many more sites.