Chicago: In and Around the Loop - Walking Tours of Architecture and History

by Gerard R. Wolfe

Book Overview

Gides you through Chicago's world-famous landmark buildings, walks you through the Loop and along the 'Magnificent Mile, ' the 'Gold Coast, ' Printers' Row, Grant Park, and Prairie Avenue. This book... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070713901
• ISBN13: 9780070713901
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
• Length: 465 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

A Great Book for a Great City

Gerard Wolfe has produced an inclusive and engaging book concentrating on the area in and around the Loop in Chicago. In a series of walking tours, he weaves history and architecture into a "must see" for tourists, native Chicagoans and armchair travelers, alike.

Great book for the traveler or those new to Chicago

I currently live in Chicago and have had a great time exploring and learning about new (to me) places with the help of this book. There is a good amount of info. to give the reader a decent background on many of the buildings in the Loop. It omits lengthy and unnecessary history topics to focus on the highlights of each walking tour, leaving the lengthy history for other books to explore. I've learned alot about my own city by reading this book and highly recommend it.

The best guide to downtown Chicago architecture and history!

An excellent set of tours of all neighborhoods of downtown Chicago, profusely illustrated with contemporary and archival photos, with a lively and user-friendly text. Especially helpful for the first-time visitor, although I understand it has been adopted by the Chicago Architecture Foundation as a guide to train its docents who give walking tours. I have not come across any better guide to the Loop and its surroundings, with a crisp style and useful historical facts. Dr. Gareth Shellman (shellman@csd.uwm.edu) Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA