Chi-Town

By Norbert Blei

Book Overview

This collection of true-life tales evokes a city of gritty and colorful neighborhoods and people. With stories from famous Chicagoans like Mike Royko and Studs Terkel and from everyday people like Petros, the owner of a restaurant in Greek Town, Chi Town is Norbert Blei's love letter to the city that has meant so much to him. Book jacket.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0944024106
• ISBN13: 9780944024102
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Ellis Pr
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.3" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

CHICAGO, CHICAGO...A Wonderful Book!

Norbert Blei has been chronicling the landscape of such Midwester cities of Cicero and Chicago and the coutryside of Door County for years. In CHI TOWN he brings the reader home to a place that is solid and real. He fills the book with portraits of people and places, the scenes of Chicago with all the heartbreaking beauty and sorrow of a scene that is passing. Blei is the great nostalgist and he gives us full measure here. This book is a tribute to a city and its people and to an author who cares to put it down with love