Best Chicago Illinois Travel Books

Produced in cooperation with the Chicago Public Art Group, Urban Art Chicago effectively conveys the vibrancy of community public art (now a national phenomenon) and how it alters the relationship of artist to audience. This terrific guide opens the doors of Chicago's public art to the caring tourist.

From Hyde Park to Jeffery Manor and South Chicago, the pictures contained in Chicago’s South Shore show many of the faces, places, and events that marked the evolution of the area. Beginning in 1951, and for the following 20 years, Hugh Celander ran a family-owned photography business in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood, a vantage point from which he documented the lives and times of a changing city.

Streetwise Chicago Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of Chicago, Illinois - Folding pocket size travel map with integrated CTA & Metra map including lines & stations. This map covers the following areas: Main Chicago Street Map 1:27,000. Downtown Chicago Map 1:18,000. Hyde Park - Kenwood Map 1:40,000. Wicker Park & Bucktown Map 1:27,000. Chicago Area Map 1:330,000. Chicago CTA & Metra Map. From the Art Institute at Grant Park to the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Science (home to Sue, the city’s beloved Tyrannosaurus Rex) to the architectural oasis of the Illinois Institute of Technology campus and Oak Park, Chicago is a world known cultural capital. For a larger selection of our detailed travel maps simply type STREETWISE MAPS into the search bar. In the 1970’s, Brown traveled extensively throughout Africa, India, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Brown would take a large paper map, cut out the city center, folded it up and slip it into his pocket, thus preventing him from looking like a tourist in areas where discretion is the better part of travel. After many years on the road, Brown settled back in New York and decided to start his own business, based on the adaptations he had made to maps in his travels. Brown sold the maps during the day, zipping around Manhattan making deliveries on his Harley Davidson. STREETWISE® is one of the only, if not THE only map company that conducts research by walking or driving an area to ensure accuracy. This lengthy fact checking results in superior accuracy; in effect, we’ve done the work, now you have the adventure.

Produced in cooperation with the Chicago Public Art Group, Urban Art Chicago effectively conveys the vibrancy of community public art (now a national phenomenon) and how it alters the relationship of artist to audience. This terrific guide opens the doors of Chicago's public art to the caring tourist.

This broad-shouldered metropolis, Carl Sandburg's "Hog butcher of the world," is a city of the plains clutching the lake to its heart. In New York at the International Center of Photography, the New York City Municipal Arts Foundation. In San Francisco at the Vision Gallery, City Hall and the Pacific Center for Photographic Arts.