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

Neal Samors

Lee B. Stern

Chicago's Books Press

West Town Tavern: Contemporary Comfort Food by Susan Goss, Drew Goss (2010) Hardcover

Drew Goss

Susan with Drew Goss Goss

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

This large format (11 x 11) book offers a 248-page pictorial history--from an aerial perspective--of the far-reaching change that has occurred in Chicago and its region in the span of a single generation, between 1985 and 2010. This history is presented through more than 250 color photographs by Mr. Okrent, and a complementary selection of maps and historic images drawn from his personal collections. Spare, highly informative text and picture captions serve to broaden the reader's understanding of the period covered. The book includes 92 illustrated articles on subjects as diverse as the creation of the Museum Campus, the demise of a bygone era of public housing, the evolution of the city's signature sports venues, and the revival of historic city neighborhoods, such as Chinatown, Wicker Park and the Near South Side. Suburban Chicago is covered, as well, with articles that dramatically illustrate the character of the change that has occurred, largely unnoticed, beyond the city limits. Indeed, the story of change chronicled in these pages is perhaps more dramatic than that of any other era of comparable duration, probably even including the period immediately following the great fire of 1871. For those who recall the 1980s, this work will evoke recollections of a truly bygone era. For those who did not experience it first hand, it will serve as a reminder that Chicago, among all cities, welcomes change, celebrates change, and regards change as one of its distinguishing features.

Chicago From The Sky: A Region Transformed

Lawrence Okrent

Never Put Ketchup on a Hot Dog

This book is an insider's view of a love of hot dogs - eating them, selling them and talking about them. The author, an executive at Vienna Beef, has spent almost 40 years developing and enhancing strong emotions for the business and for the people who operate hot dog stands. The book includes detailed stories about a long list of hot dog stands located in Chicago, city and suburban, as well as stands located around the country. The one thing all those businesses have in common is that they serve or served Chicago-style hot dogs. Everyone who grew up eating hot dogs at those stands, especially in their own neighborhoods, remembers the one rule about putting condiments on a Chicago-style wiener - never put ketchup on a hot dog. This book will help the reader bring back all of those delicious memories.

Bob Schwartz

This book is an insider's view of a love of hot dogs - eating them, selling them and talking about them. The author, an executive at Vienna Beef, has spent almost 40 years developing and enhancing strong emotions for the business and for the people who operate hot dog stands. The book includes detailed stories about a long list of hot dog stands in Chicago, city and suburban, as well as stands located around the country. The one thing all those businesses have in common is that they serve or served Chicago-style hot dogs. Everyone who grew up eating hot dogs at those stands, especially in their own neighborhoods, remembers the one rule about putting condiments on a Chicago-style weiner - never put ketchup on a hot dog. This book will help the reader bring back all those delicious memories.

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

Travel through Chicago's neighborhoods and suburban communities both past and present with an eye on the passion and the people behind Chicago hot dog stands. With a preface by Joe Mantegna, star of stage, screen and television and a a foreword by Chicago's famed news anchor, Bob Sirott, the book focuses on how these hot dog stands can get into your soul. The first edition of the book proved not only to be a fun read, but kind of a year book of sorts that many folks have taken to their favorite stands for an autograph with the hope of making their own hot dog stand memories. In keeping with that, our Collector's Edition perpetuates that approach by including a Chicago-style hot dog stand directory with nearly 200 Chicago-area listings and over 100 more out of town Chicago hot dog ambassadors listed by state. The second edition also features neighborhood, suburban and national maps as well as many additional stories, pictures, and updates. With more than three-quarters of a century of hot dog love and lore to build on, the book also takes a glimpse at what's hot now and expected in the near future. Dragging It Through The Garden is the look and taste of the Chicago-style hot dog with yellow mustard, white chopped onions, green relish, red tomato slices, a pickle spear, a couple of sport peppers, and a dash of celery salt, and you're ready to go. Nowhere on that list will you find ketchup, and as Chicago White Sox Chairman, Jerry Reinsdorf, said on a recent television show called The Club - Thou shalt not put ketchup on a hot dog. So, have one with everything, sit back, and enjoy the book.

Never Put Ketchup On A Hot Dog

Special Limited Edition includes numbered signed print of trail tree by author that matches limited edition number of book. This exciting book, a beautiful combination of history and nature, has 264 pages with more than 250 color and black and white photographs, maps and sketches. Early on the author was inspired by local historians, scouting groups, and his own Native American relative. Later, in his thirties, he would begin to follow in the footsteps of anthropolgist and botanist at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago, Dr. Raymond E. Janssen. Janssen had traveled to thirteen states working with Native Americans and documenting the Trail Marker Trees from the late 1920's into the 1940's. The author has traveled to over forty states and five Canadian provinces, beginning his studies with the states that Janssen visited and then expanding upon the study from there. During his travels, he met with Native Americans, anthropologists, archeologists, and local historians. He has dedicated much of his life to photographing and researching the history of Trail Marker Trees. This is the first publication to focus in such detail on this unique form of land and water navigation used by the Native Americans and, later, the early pioneers

Native American Trail Marker Trees: Marking Paths Through The Wilderness

Dennis Downes

This book explores Chicago's classic restaurants from pre-1900 until the present including classics like Henrici's, Fritzels, Shangri-La, The Bakery, Le Perroquet, The Berghoff, The Pump Room, The Cape Cod Room, and The Walnut Room among many others. Then, post-1970, Richard Melman and Lawrence Levy introduced a new type of fun restaurant atmosphere in Chicago restaurants that ranged from RJ Grunts, DB Kaplan, and Fritz That's It to Lawrence of Oregano. then there were the more upscale, traditional classic restaurants that included Ambria and Le Francais which preceded Everest, Tru, Trio and Spiaggia. Chicago has traveled a long road to achieve its status with world-class restaurants that have included Charlie Trotter's, Rick Bayless' Frontera Grill, Scott Harris' Francesca restaurants, Boka, Perennial, Girl and the Goat, Blackbird, Avec, and Grant Achatz' Alinea and Next.

Chicago's Classic Restaurants: Past, Present and Future

History

Americas

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A Kid From The Windy City

West Town Tavern: Contemporary Comfort Food by Susan Goss, Drew Goss (2010) Hardcover

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

Chicago From The Sky: A Region Transformed

Never Put Ketchup on a Hot Dog

Never Put Ketchup on a Hot Dog

The Rise of the Magnificent Mile

Never Put Ketchup On A Hot Dog

Native American Trail Marker Trees: Marking Paths Through The Wilderness

Chicago's Classic Restaurants: Past, Present and Future