Travel

"From the world's largest urinal to the worst drunken story ever told, from the reformed ex-con Big Ol' Pimp to the sink pissing Pudge, Chicago's Dive Bars: Drinking and Diving in the Windy City brings you the sights, sounds and smells of over ninety of the city's deliciously divey spots. This essential nightlife guide provides the lowdown on where to find the cheapest drinks, the scariest crowds, the coolest jukeboxes and everything else that makes a dive bar dive. So, if you are sick of the tourist traps and hisper havens listed in those 'other' guide books and want to discover 'real' drinking Chicago in all its grungy glory, Chicago's Best Dive Bars brings you the whole story, straight, no chaser."

"Whether you're a life-long resident, new in town, or just passing through, let 'A Native's Guide to Chicago's Western Suburbs' be your personal tour guide of the best this region has to offer."

In the second installment of his Ultra Local Geography, Larry Shure documents the "functional beauty" of the portals to various buildings in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood. An exhaustive zine-cum-architectural-guidebook, it documents and describes the features of eleven doors, including date, architect, building owner, cost, size, building materials, and even the reference information for the City of Chicago building permits. Shure provides drawings of the doors, their building facades, and street addresses/intersections.

"In 'Plans of Chicago,' R. Samuel Roche and Aric Lasher investigate the 'Plan of Chicago' as a design strategy and a point of departure for a new regional planning approach. They illuminate it historical context through a discussion of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and the 1901 McMillan Plan for Washington, DC, its primary antecedents. Comparing its priorities and strategies with those of earlier and later plans of Chicago -- including projects by Frederick Law Olmsted, Frank Lloyd Wright, Jens Jenson, and Ludwig Hilberseimer -- Roche and Lasher offer a new approach to regional planning that combines the strengths and objectives of these various plans of Chicago.'

A review of the participating organizations and artists in the Chicago Artists International Program (CAIP) from 1996. Documents the fascinating experiences of the talented artists, musicians, dancers, writers, and arts administrators in Chicago's international cultural exchange program.

Zine published by Rat Patrol, an anarchist, pro-bike environmental group.

"Around the world the name "Chicago" conjures up images of the Roaring Twenties, speakeasies, cops and robbers, and "Scarface" Al Capone. In Mystery Reader's Walking Guide: Chicago, author Alzina Stone Dale brings all of this-and more-to life in 10 walking tours of Chicago's neighborhoods, as described in the works of Sara Paretsky, Craig Rice, and more than 70 other mystery writers Each Walk is accompanied by an easy-to-follow map of your route, as well as recommended restaurants and places of interest along the way, presented in a style that is evocative of the great writers, books and sleuths identified with the Windy City."

Poetry and short stories about traveling to and visiting Indiana.

"Translator-sleuth Cassandra Reilly takes off after new literary adventures around the globe! The Death of a Much-Travelled Woman gathers in one volume the exploits and mishaps of the globetrotting Cassandra Reilly. In these nine madcap investigations, Cassandra journeys to such varied locations as Helsinki, Hawaii, Vladivostock, Reykjavik, and the English countryside. The thefts, murders, and other crimes she's called on to help solve are engagingly literary, with more than a dash of satire aimed at publishers, editors, writers, and of course, translators. Goodhearted, witty, and rakishly unabashedly lesbian, Cassandra Reilly is a wonderful travelling companion for armchair or train compartment."

"The most famous highway in America starts in the center of Chicago. For over 2400 miles it winds west through little towns, plains mountains and deserts, all the way to L.A., California. The first few miles of the journey zigzag down busy streets of the city. Here and there are old roadside businesses dating from the picturesque days of auto tourism along the Mother road. Read the story of this historic travel route in the enclosed booklet, and see the sights along the way in three-dimensional photographs."