Insight Guides Chicago

By Insight Guides

This portable, attractive city guide includes detailed PopOut maps, a 64 page insider guide, a functional compass, and a pen to help you travel intelligently around Chicago. The classic itinerary covers 30 attractions, like the Sears Tower and Navy Pier -- including descriptions, historical insights, and an alphanumeric index corresponding to helpful maps. The guide also features listings for 40 shops and services, ranging from book stores to markets; Chicago's Magnificent Mile, a shopping paradise filled with glittery shops and eclectic restaurants; 62 entertainment venues covering themes from the Opera and Theatre to Dance Clubs and Sporting Arenas; and 44 eclectic restaurants. A concluding section provides transportation, weather, and regional custom information. PopOut maps of North and South Chicago, with an inset of Chicago's Loop and the Greater Chicago area, complete this savvy guide.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395663180
• ISBN13: 9780395663189
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Apa Productions
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 5.8" x 0.8"

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.