The first Society authored book, which earned the Award of Superior Achievement from the Illinois State Historical Society and the Association of Illinois Museums and Historical Societies in April of 2001.

Chicago's Far North Side

Travel

Neal Samors

Mary Jo Doyle

Martin Lewin

Michael, Williams

United States

Chicago Historical BookWorks

Our second Society authored book, including excerpts from oral histories conducted with more than 125 current and former neighborhood residents, including Shecky Greene, Hugh Downs, Harold Ramis, Ira Berkow, Joel Weisman, Jan Schakowsky, Sr. Ann Ida Gannon, Neil Hartigan, Art Berman, and Scott Turow.

Neighborhoods Within Neighborhoods: Twentieth Century Life on Chicago's Far North Side

Biographies & Memoirs

Rogers Park/West Ridge Historical Society

The Old Chicago Neighborhood: Remembering Life in the 1940's

Chicago's Neighborhoods,Inc.

"Real Chicago: Photographs from the Files of the Chicago Sun-Times, is an artistic and historical look at Chicago since 1940 based on photographs from the files of the Chicago Sun-Times. The book includes 250 duotone, black and white photographs, and an introduction by Chicago Sun-Times columnist Roger Ebert.

Real Chicago

Richard Cahan

"Real Chicago: Photographs from the Files of the Chicago Sun-Times" is an artistic and historical look at Chicago since 1940 based on photographs from the files of the Chicago Sun-Times. The book includes 250 duotone, black and white photographs, and an introduction by Chicago Sun-Times columnist Roger Ebert

A seventy-five year look, from 1930 through the 2005 World Championship Chicago White Sox, at Chicago sports through 375 duotone, black and white photographs from the files of the Chicago Sun-Times. The book also includes an introduction by Rick Telander, sports columnist of the the Chicago Sun-Times.

Real Chicago Sports: Photohraphs from the Files of the Chicago Sun-Times

A seventy-five year look, from 1930 through the 2005 World Championship Chicago White Sox,at Chicago sports through 288 pages of 375 duotone, black and white photographs from the files of the Chicago Sun-Times. The book also includes an introduction by Rick Telander, sports columnist of the Chicago Sun-Times

Real Chicago Sports

This is a biography of Lee B. Stern, a well-known Chicagoan who became involved in the futures industry at the Chicago Board of Trade in 1949. He is the founder of the Chicago Sting, North American Soccer League champions in1981 and 1984. Lee also played a major role in bringing the World Cup to Chicago. He was elected to the U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame in 2003. Lee has also been an owner director of the Chicago White Sox since 1975. The book includes interviews with 20 individuals including Jerry Reinsdorf, chairman of the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls, John McDonough, president of the Chicago Blackhawks, Clive Toye, former president of the New York Cosmos and Chicago Sting, Charlie Carey, chairman of the Chicago Board of Trade, Dan Flynn, CEO of the U.S. Soccer Federation, and Willy Roy, former coach of the Chicago Sting, as well as several of Lee's family members and friends along with associates who worked with him over the years.

A Kid From The Windy City

Lee B. Stern

Chicago's Books Press

Travel America's highways from Maine to San Diego and you'll find almost universal agreement that no urban road compares to the stunning beauty and charm of Chicago's Lake Shore Drive. For more than 19 miles it edges the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago providing one spectacular view after another. It cuts through four city parks, adjoins five major museums and one zoo, and is the home address of Chicago's cultural, business and political leaders. If you live in Chicago, it is the road you boast about. If you are a visitor to the "City That Works," its magnificence takes your breath away. Blair Kamin, the Chicago Tribune's Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic, says simply that he's "never seen a more beautiful urban roadway." Words alone cannot tell the story. The book is beautifully illustrated throughout its 208 pages with more than 250 black and white and color photographs representing the past 150 years of the roadway's progress from a pleasant horse and buggy pathway in front of Gold Coast mansions of Potter Palmer and his friends to the eight-lane hybrid boulevard of today. Page after page contains the pictorial history of how the road was carved from swampland and lakefront using a combination of sand, landfill and debris from the remnants of the 1871 Great Chicago Fire. The book includes interviews with more than 20 well-known Chicagoans in addition to Blair Kamin, including the Honorable Abner Mikva, former U.S. Congressman and Federal Appellate Judge, the Honorable U.S. Congressman Janice Schakowsky, Irma Trantor, President of Friends of the Parks, Daniel Walsh, President, The Walsh Group, architect Philip Enquist, the Honorable Neil Hartigan, former Illinois Attorney General and Lieutenant Governor, Daniel McCaffery, President, McCaffery Interests, newspaper and television journalist Bill Zwecker, and John Norquist, President and CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism. An added treat is a first person account by rock composer, Skip Haynes, about his wild trip on the Drive one early morning that led him to write his famous ode, Lake Shore Drive.

Chicago's Lake Shore Drive: Urban America's Most Beautiful Roadway

Bernard Judge

Chicago's North Michigan Avenue, also known throughout the world as The Magnificent Mile, traces its early history to 1837 when the City of Chicago was incorporated. It is difficult to imagine that today's famous avenue, with shopping malls, skyscrapers, condominiums, world class stores, and major hotels was once a dirt road with a few wooden houses. Almost all of the buildings and mansions were destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, except for the Water Tower and Pumping Station. The street that would become known as North Michigan Avenue after the Michigan Avenue Bridge was opened in 1920, was originally called Pine Street. The Fourth Presbyterian Church was built in 1914, and, during the 1920s, such structures as the Wrigley Building, Tribune Tower, Allerton Hotel, Palmolive Building and Drake Hotel, along with numerous low rise and mid rise buildings went up along the avenue. Construction ground to a halt during the Great Depression and World War II, but, beginning in the 1950s and continuing throuhout the rest of the 20th century, there was an explosion in construction on and near North Michigan Avenue. Two of the best known buildings erected during that period were The John Hancock Building and Water Tower Place. The book also covers the development of the Streeterville neighborhood to the east of the avenue with its world reknowned educational and medical complexes. In addition, Rush Street, and its entertainment venues and restaurants gets special treatment in the book, along with the well known Oak Street. Today, the area known as The Magnificent Mile, and the broader Greater North Michigan Avenue District, is a major attraction in a world class city where visitors increasingly come to discover why Chicago is such a special place. The book includes interviews with 25 well known Chicagoans, skillfully blended with more than 275 black and white, duotone and color photographs presented in a then and now format.

The Rise of the Magnificent Mile

Eric Bronsky

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Chicago's Far North Side

Neighborhoods Within Neighborhoods: Twentieth Century Life on Chicago's Far North Side

The Old Chicago Neighborhood: Remembering Life in the 1940's

Real Chicago

Real Chicago

Real Chicago Sports: Photohraphs from the Files of the Chicago Sun-Times

Real Chicago Sports

A Kid From The Windy City

Chicago's Lake Shore Drive: Urban America's Most Beautiful Roadway

The Rise of the Magnificent Mile