Lists of Bests: Belize80's "My favorite books about Chicago" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/36064 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:03:22 GMT en-us 0 50 30 0 0 Lost Chicago http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2800991 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2800991"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/11OvO+2uzlL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Garrard Lowe</div> Streetwise Chicago: A History of Chicago Street Names http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2800992 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2800992"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/010CWS3KHRL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Don Hayner</div> Leopold and Loeb: THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/900280 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/900280"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0252068297.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hal Higdon</div> There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10025 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10025"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385265565.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43040799_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alex Kotlowitz</div> To Sleep with the Angels : The Story of a Fire (Illinois) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1300354 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1300354"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/156663217X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Cowan</div> Chicago Apartments: A Century of Lakefront Luxury (Urban Domestic Architecture Series) (Urban Domestic Architecture Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/368793 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/368793"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0926494252.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1095725160_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Neil Harris</div> Chicago "L", The (IL) (General Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2800995 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2800995"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11B9yPs1Z8L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Greg Borzo</div> The Chicago World's Fair of 1893: A Photographic Record (Dover Architectural Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1169837 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1169837"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/048623990X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div> The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2494838 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nicholas Lemann</div> The Chicago Architectural Club http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2800997 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2800997"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11FTXT6WVKL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wilbert R. Hasbrouck</div> The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9266 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9266"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375725601.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V64591320_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Erik Larson</div> Real Chicago http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2054734 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2054734"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0972545638.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Cahan; Michael Williams; Neal Samors</div> They All Fall Down: Richard Nickel's Struggle to Save America's Architecture http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1579249 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1579249"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0471144266.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Cahan</div> Richard Nickel's Chicago: Photographs of a Lost City http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2800999 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> A Walk Through Graceland Cemetery: A Chicago Architecture Foundation Walking Tour http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2801001 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Lanctot</div> American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/934826 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/934826"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316834890.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Adam Cohen</div> The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1041394 <div id="position">17</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James N. Wood</div> North Shore Chicago: Houses of the Lakefront Suburbs, 1890-1940 (Suburban Domestic Architecture Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2801004 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2801004"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01SFEHQ7DGL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stuart Earl Cohen</div> A View from the River: The Chicago Architecture Foundation River Cruise (Pomegranate Catalog, No. A537) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2405726 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2405726"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0764913336.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056484995_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jay Pridmore</div> Chicago Then and Now (Then & Now Thunder Bay) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2625285 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2625285"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1592237320.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V49809751_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth McNulty</div> City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/92257 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/92257"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684831384.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Donald L. Miller</div> Chicago at the Turn of the Century in Photographs : 122 Historic Views from the Collections of the Chicago Historical Society http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970165 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/970165"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0486246566.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Larry A. Viskochil</div> The Encyclopedia of Chicago http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/227885 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/227885"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226310159.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1136836747_.jpg" /></a></div> AIA Guide to Chicago : Second Edition (Harvest Original) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1745471 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1745471"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0156029081.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alice Sinkevitch</div> Hometown Architect: The Complete Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright in Oak Park And River Forest, Illinois http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1433275 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1433275"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0764937464.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V67078130_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patrick F. Cannon</div> Chicago : Growth of a Metropolis http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/570435 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/570435"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226512746.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harold M. Mayer</div> The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33726 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33726"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1884365302.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Upton Sinclair</div> Native Son (Perennial Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57190 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/57190"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/006083756X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard A. Wright</div> Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? (Loyola Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/298005 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/298005"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0829421432.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John R. Powers</div> Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/352257 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/352257"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0224063979.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div>