The Cheap Bastard's Guide to Chicago: Secrets of Living the Good Life - for Free!

By Nadia Oehlsen

This guide features advice on how to get the best from the 'Windy City' - whether you are just visiting, or planning to stay. It includes information on how to enjoy free concerts; where to get free... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076274068X
• ISBN13: 9780762740680
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Pr
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

VIEWS TO A MOVE!

Relocation and subsequent severence from employment has left two Michiganders stranded in Iowa. Contemplating our next move, hopefully closer to family and friends in the Great Lakes State, we find ourselves contemplating the city of Chicago and its suburbs. The Cheap Bastard's Guide to Chicago offers a fairly recent (2007) assessment of life in the big city and one's ability to afford it, even in this down-turned economy. Lively descriptions and what appears to be clear dirrections to locations make up the "meat" of the book. I think it will be valuable in helping our move. I highly recommend it!

Just what it advertised

Saw this at the bookstore and it seemed like something I should own. Good book, good condition.

Fantastic

This book will pay for itself. Easily the most useful guide for moving to Chicago I've seen. If you are starting out in the city, you should get this book.

A Great Resource

I got this book as a present when I spent a few months in Chicago for work. At first I thought is was just a fun gift - love the title, but I wasn't really expecting to get much use out of it. But I was shocked by how much useful stuff is in the book. I was able to see some amazing shows for free including performances at The Goodman and Steppenwolf, ate more than my fair share of free pizza, took a wonderful walking tour with the Chicago Greeters and got a great dirt-cheap massage at a massage school. I was really surprised by how much great free and seriously cheap things are in Chicago (and this book!). I highly recommend it.