Transportation

"Slaughterhouse tells the story of the Union Stock Yard, chronicling the rise and fall of an industrial district that, for better or worse, defined Chicago for decades." *

First Steps: An Introduction to Life in America is a manual with information for immigrants settling in the United States. It contains information about food, finances, getting around, and documentation. All information is in both English and Karen (Burma, Myanmar and Thailand).

A coloring book that highlights famous Chicago sites with accompanying poems.

"The Waukegan Historical Society was founded in 1968 to help keep the city's history alive. Through numerous programs and presentations the society has provided a record of many of the contributors to Waukegan's growth and importance. Publication of a photo record seems like a natural continuation of this mission. The memorable images collected in "Waukegan, Illinois" are of those people and events that made the city great, and were selected from the society's archives. We hope that many memories may be sparked as one wanders through our collective past."

Pamphlet exploring the idea and practice of free transportation as a form of active resistance.

This lushly illustrated book -- Beyond Burnham: An Illustrated History of Planning for the Chicago Region -- provides a fascinating account of a century of visionary planning for metropolitan Chicago. From Daniel H. Burnham and Edward H. Bennett's famed 1909 Plan of Chicago to the push for superhighways and airports to battles over urban sprawl, the book showcases an illustrated portrait of the big personalities and "big plans" they espoused. *

An anthology of Chicago's Maritime history, complete with vagabonds, romance, commerce, lighthouses and shipwrecks. Starting in 1673 when voyageur Louis Jolliet first realized the potential utility of the place that was to become Chicago and through the ensuing centuries, learn about this lively world of waterway history through a collection of writings, photos and artifacts.

The newsletter of Chicago Critical Mass, the special Cook Book Issue! Recipes for giving you fuel to bike, how ditching your car for a bike will allow you to eat more chocolate cake, and how to dress for winter, how to give holiday gifts that don't encourage conspicuous consumption, how to transport a frosted cake by bike.<br />