Best General Illinois Travel Guides
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.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Purchased for a freind's birthday."
"Lovely photos of many many placees and buildings in Chicago."
"Terrific book !"
"We purchased this book to give to a German exchange student who is about to return home."
"If you love Chicago, as do I, you will love this book.The one thing you should be aware of is that the photos in this book are from the early 1990's, and although the Chicago skyline has changed greatly since then, this book still rocks."
"No satellite photos of Chicago are found in this book, but there is one high-altitude composite U-2 photo of Chicago that is included."
"I recommend this book as I do all of his wonderful books, if you love great photography you will have to have them all, but this is a great place to start."
"I do miss the bit of local color added to volumes on London (Alistair Cook) and San Francisco (Herb Caen), but the star of the show is the quality and expert selection of photographs."
The newly updated Northern Illinois Fishing Map Guide is a thorough, easy-to-use collection of detailed contour lake maps, fish stocking and survey data, and the best fishing spots and tips from area experts. Our Fishing Map Guides and All-Outdoors Atlases give you more quality maps and information for your dollar.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Good book for the lake fisherman."
"Although I suspect anything like this might be somewhat out dated with regard to the number of fish stocked in any particular lake or pond in a given year, this type of information could be easily enough located on the Internet year to year."
"Keep this book in my truck for any time i want to fish a new area works very well!"
"This book of maps is fantastic."
"My daughter and her Dad have used this book for several years and had a lot of fun fishing together."
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.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"good photos and details about the murals."
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"Also adding to the book's usefulness is a bibliography and a collection of capsule biographies of major artists in the mural movement. But my favorites include the following: William Walker's "Childhood Is Without Prejudice," with its interlocking faces of many races; Christopher Tavares Silva's "Soaring Toward Excellence," a symbolic, energetic celebration of books and education; Aurelio Diaz' "Latino Youth, Inc." mural, with its stunning pre-Columbian imagery; and Jeff Zimmerman's "Paid Programming," a visual satire in which the United States flag is morphed into a bar-code."
"Urban Art Chicago is a beautifully produced guide to many of Chicago's murals and would be an excellent gift for any school teacher."