Customer Reviews

Chicago's Southeast Side (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing))

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Anyone from the southeast side of Chicago will love this book. It's full of great pictures of the places we grew up with. It makes a great gift for someone who's hard to buy for. I bought one for my older brother and he is enjoying all the memories it brings to mind.

This book is chock full of pictures and descriptions of the neighborhood known as the Southeast Side of Chicago. A must for anyone who grew up in this area. What memories! A definite coffee table addition to any home. And a wonderful gift.

This is a great book for everyone to read. Its all pictures with captions below. Anybody who grew up on the Southeast side (like me)need to buy this book. It has a history of this side dating back to before the turn of the century. I think it desearves more than a 5 star rating.

Fantastic book about the area where I was born & raised. Many personal connections for me, such as the trunk on p.16 belonging to my grandfather. He used it when he came to Chicago from Texas. Today the trunk is in my sister's dinning room! I dont know who the woman sitting on the trunk is but there is a picture of my grandfather on p.114. He is man kneeling at the bottom left of the bottom picture on the page. There is also a picture of my aunt, one of my grandfathers five daughters, on p.93. She is second from the right in the bottom picture.
This book should be required reading for the school children on the East Side, it is historically very accurate.
If you are looking for a book that details the ground up development of a of a major industrial center and the people that made it happen, this is it.

I rec'd the wrong book and I never heard if it was rec'd back to
you. When this is cleared up I want to try again