Hands on Chicago Review

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Hands on Chicago ReviewAnyone who is interested in Chicago and already knows a bit about it should enjoy this book, which, by the way, appears in an original (1987) and revised (1993) edition; this is not immediately clear from the Amazon record.
Kenan Heise is one of the many historians, between popular and scholarly, who have made their own mark on the Chicago bibliography. For a while he worked for the Chicago Tribune, long after that newspaper was nothing more than a mouthpiece for the Republican Party, and, until a few years ago, ran a bricks-and-mortar Chicago Historical Bookstore (in Evanston).

I say that it's a bit eclectic; how could it be otherwise, a book about Chicago in such a small compass. Even the recent Encyclopedia of Chicago (U of Chi; 2004) leaves things out. Anyone who is acquainted with the city will miss one thing or another (I missed an explanation of the anomalous street numbers between 0 South, Roosevelt Road, Cermak, and 31st Street), but a handy size is in itself a merit, as entertaining reading material.
I can imagine sitting down and reading this book from cover to cover. I think that Heise and his colleague Mark Frazel managed to pick out the things that really, anyone who cares about the city should know. It's not a comprehensive work, as I say, nor is it a tour guide. What tour guide would talk about Panhandlers in the Loop as if they had as much right to be there as the Bums Upstairs? Well, maybe the kind of tour guide that Studs Terkel would use. Terkel wrote the Forward. And there's a back cover blurb from the late Mike Royko. How can you go wrong?Hands on Chicago Overview

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