This tour guide to Chicago helps visitors and residents alike grasp the architectural "personality" of the city. The chapters are organized into neighbourhood routes, with maps provided for each tour. Tours include: the Loop, the Chicago River, Michigan Avenue, and the "Magnificent Mile".
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More than just another discussion of Chicago buildings...succeeds, through text and image, in capturing the soul of the city. -- Chicago Tribune, June 1996
celebrates...impressive architectural legacy...has just won an award...Peppered with maps, archival pictures...outlines a dozen walking tours... -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 1996
celebrates...impressive architectural legacy...has just won an award...Peppered with maps, archival pictures...outlines a dozen walking tours... -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 1996
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Explore the city that is the cradle of the American skyscraper and still leads the world in modern building design! The fascinating architecture of Chicago unfurls before your eyes in this acclaimed walking tour guide to the "City of Big Shoulders," birthplace of the skyscraper. Full of little-known facts intriguing to natives and tourists alike, Chicago: In and Around the Loop guides you through Chicago's world-famous landmark buildings; walks you through the Loop and along and "Magnificent Mile," the "Gold Coast," Printers' Row, Grant Park, and Prairie Avenue; and shows you the most stunning views of Chicago's glorious and historic skyline.
Along the way, you'll meet architects like Dankmar Adler, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and many others who revamped the American skyline and aesthetic. What an adventure lies before you as you relive the exciting growth, development, and modernization of the dynamic "Windy City" (and find out why it's called that--it's not what you think! Readers and walkers will enjoy: unique tours that include the riverfront from the Sears Tower to Lake Michigan; the River North district, center of Chicago's nightlife; and historical walks through vintage Chicago of both before and after the Great Fire of 1871; fascinating facts and details about major landmarks in the heart of Chicago; easy-to-follow maps of all walking tours; 275 contemporary and vintage photographs of major sites and attractions.
Recommended by the Chicago Architecture Foundation for its completeness and lively style. Chicago: In and Around the Loop is your ideal companion as you explore the city's rich architectural heritage and the exciting Chicago of today. This guide also serves as an ideal reference for architects, architectural historians, and students.
Along the way, you'll meet architects like Dankmar Adler, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and many others who revamped the American skyline and aesthetic. What an adventure lies before you as you relive the exciting growth, development, and modernization of the dynamic "Windy City" (and find out why it's called that--it's not what you think! Readers and walkers will enjoy: unique tours that include the riverfront from the Sears Tower to Lake Michigan; the River North district, center of Chicago's nightlife; and historical walks through vintage Chicago of both before and after the Great Fire of 1871; fascinating facts and details about major landmarks in the heart of Chicago; easy-to-follow maps of all walking tours; 275 contemporary and vintage photographs of major sites and attractions.
Recommended by the Chicago Architecture Foundation for its completeness and lively style. Chicago: In and Around the Loop is your ideal companion as you explore the city's rich architectural heritage and the exciting Chicago of today. This guide also serves as an ideal reference for architects, architectural historians, and students.
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The best guide to downtown Chicago architecture and history!,
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This review is from: Chicago: In and Around the Loop - Walking Tours of Architecture and History (Paperback)
An excellent set of tours of all neighborhoods of downtown Chicago, profusely illustrated with contemporary and archival photos, with a lively and user-friendly text. Especially helpful for the first-time visitor, although I understand it has been adopted by the Chicago Architecture Foundation as a guide to train its docents who give walking tours. I have not come across any better guide to the Loop and its surroundings, with a crisp style and useful historical facts. Dr. Gareth Shellman (shellman@csd.uwm.edu) Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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Great book for the traveler or those new to Chicago,
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I currently live in Chicago and have had a great time exploring and learning about new (to me) places with the help of this book. There is a good amount of info. to give the reader a decent background on many of the buildings in the Loop. It omits lengthy and unnecessary history topics to focus on the highlights of each walking tour, leaving the lengthy history for other books to explore. I've learned alot about my own city by reading this book and highly recommend it.
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Gerard Wolfe has produced an inclusive and engaging book concentrating on the area in and around the Loop in Chicago. In a series of walking tours, he weaves history and architecture into a "must see" for tourists, native Chicagoans and armchair travelers, alike.
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The series of walking tours of downtown Chicago begins at the corner of Michigan Avenue and congress Parkway, with a visit to the Auditorium Building; it then continues west to the canyons of Chicago's financial district and explores many old and new buildings that have given Chicago the unique reputation as the cradle of modern architecture. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
window enframements, classic cornice, foliated capitals, corbel table, auditorium building, limestone trim, pedestrian arcade, peaked gable, architect unknown, unknown architect, vertical piers, successor firm, projecting bays, water arc Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Michigan Avenue, Lake Shore Drive, State Street, Dearborn Street, Wacker Drive, Prairie Avenue, New York, Great Fire, Astor Street, Chicago Historical Society, Clark Street, Grant Park, Marshall Field, Art Deco, Lake Michigan, Wabash Avenue, Madison Street, Romanesque Revival, Chicago Avenue, Monroe Street, Jackson Boulevard, Congress Parkway, World's Columbian Exposition, Van Buren Street, Gold Coast New!
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The series of walking tours of downtown Chicago begins at the corner of Michigan Avenue and congress Parkway, with a visit to the Auditorium Building; it then continues west to the canyons of Chicago's financial district and explores many old and new buildings that have given Chicago the unique reputation as the cradle of modern architecture. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
window enframements, classic cornice, foliated capitals, corbel table, auditorium building, limestone trim, pedestrian arcade, peaked gable, architect unknown, unknown architect, vertical piers, successor firm, projecting bays, water arc Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Michigan Avenue, Lake Shore Drive, State Street, Dearborn Street, Wacker Drive, Prairie Avenue, New York, Great Fire, Astor Street, Chicago Historical Society, Clark Street, Grant Park, Marshall Field, Art Deco, Lake Michigan, Wabash Avenue, Madison Street, Romanesque Revival, Chicago Avenue, Monroe Street, Jackson Boulevard, Congress Parkway, World's Columbian Exposition, Van Buren Street, Gold Coast New!
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- Chicago Churches and Synagogues by George A. Lane on page 60, page 122, and page 340
- Chicago on foot;: An architectural walking tour, by Ira J Bach on page 137, and page 281
- The Great Chicago Fire by David Lowe in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- War of 1812 (Books About the U.S.A.) by Richard B. Morris in Index
- The Art Institute of Chicago, 20th-Century: Painting and Sculpture by James N. Wood in Index
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