This Used to Be Chicago by Joni Blackman

This Used to Be Chicago by Joni Blackman

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This Used to Be Chicago by Joni Blackman

Warning: with This Used to Be Chicago as your guide, you may never look at Chicago the same again. Every building has a past author Joni Hirsch Blackman finds the stories behind more than 90 Chicago buildings that used to be something else: the liquor store that used to be a speakeasy during Prohibition; the yacht club that used to be a ferry boat; the countless condominiums that used to be cracker, shoe, postcard or piano factories and, perhaps the most incongruous, the circus school that used to be a church. Imagine what your favorite buildings will house in another 100 years that's this book backwards! Explore your own neighborhood with a new eye, find places you remember from your youth, appreciate a new part of town you've considered only as it is now.
Blackman, Joni: - Joni Hirsch Blackman has been a wire service writer, newspaper reporter, copy editor, magazine stringer, newspaper and magazine columnist. She has written three books ]] and was the editor of her high school yearbook. When not writing, she shows off the breathtaking Chicago River to tourists as a volunteer for the Chicago Architecture Foundation. The third generation of her family to be born in a Chicago hospital, Joni grew up exploring the bustling city by walking as fast as she could to keep pace with her grandmother. Those memorable outings inspired her to research the stories behind the buildings that make up the city she was born to love.
SKU Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13 9781681060910
ISBN 10 1681060914
Titel This Used to Be Chicago
Autor Joni Blackman
Serie This Used To Be
Buchzustand Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Reedy Press, Llc
Erscheinungsjahr 2017-09-01
Seitenanzahl 224
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