Insight City Guide Chicago (Insight City Guides)

By Insight Guides and Brian Bell

One of over 400 titles in the Insight series, Insight Guide Chicago. This 294-page book includes a section detailing Chicago's history, 10 features covering the city's life and culture, ranging from... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887291597
• ISBN13: 9780887291593
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Insight Guides
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

insight chicago

i found this chicago travel quide to be an exceptional difference in the usual "go here, do this" mentality of most tour books. the writing was insightful and thought-provoking, the information was straight forward and the photographs were exceptional. evidently a well thought out and researched book. even though this edition is somewhat dated (1999) i highly recommend this purchase.

Bright Pictures with Dark Words

Insight Guide Chicago is a mine of useful information in an accessible format. This, however, is not what distinguishes the Insight Guide from books with a similar mission, such as Frommers or Fodors. What marks Insight Guide apart is its wonderful photographs, which provide the would-be tourist with a rich taste of what it must be like to spend time in this vibrant, world class, but still comfortably Midwestern city.The other thing that sets this Insight Guide apart - even from others in the series - is the darkness of its text. If you read this book like a book, rather than a reference work (its stylish writing invites such use) you are regaled at every turn with tales of poverty, crime, corruption and racial division. That Chicago suffers from these problems is no doubt true but reading about them in a guidebook doesn't make me want to go there.