Chicago's Street Guide to the Supernatural by Richard T. Crowe is a personally guided tour to local haunts and mysterious sites. All areas of Chicagoland and suburbs are covered and exact directions and field notes compliment the history of each location.
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Finally, Richard T. Crowe's much asked for book is here.
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Richard T. Crowe is a product of the south side of Chicago. Crowe attended De Paul University where he earned his B.A. and M.A. in English Literature. Geography was his minor.He was a journalism teacher and a city planner at City Hall before establishing his full time Chicago Supernatural Tours. However, Richard Crowe's tours are not just limited to Chicago. He conducts tours in Salem, Massachusetts, and New Orleans, and Gettysburg.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Chicago Ghost Tours: The Print Version,
By Melissa Niksic (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Chicago's Street Guide to the Supernatural: A Guide to Haunted and Legendary Places In and Near the Windy City (Paperback)
The person who buys this book should be someone who has been on one of Richard Crowe's ghost tours and is purchasing the book as a kind of souvenir. Crowe isn't much of a writer: the text of "Chicago Street Guide to the Supernatural" is mostly a word-by-word duplication of the speeches he gives on his tours. That being said, Crowe really knows his stuff. He's been giving ghost tours in Chicago for years and could talk to you for hours about any of the haunted locations mentioned in his book. He's not a scientist and not exactly a historian, but Crowe specializes in legends, and that's what ghost stories are made of. This book contains summaries of Chicago's most famous ghost stories, including Resurrection Mary and John Dillinger. Crowe includes information that he obtained from interviews as well as many interesting photographs. It's an interesting and entertaining read, and anyone interested in learning more about Supernatural Chicago will enjoy it immensely.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Get the Book - Skip the Tour,
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This review is from: Chicago's Street Guide to the Supernatural: A Guide to Haunted and Legendary Places In and Near the Windy City (Paperback)
This book is written in a concise and easy to read format. As a chicago suburb native, I enjoyed reading tales about places and areas that I am familiar with and have been to. AS FOR THE TOUR, I was completely disappointed. Imagine sitting on a bus for four hours listening to the "micro-machine guy" rattle through places where people have seen ghosts. Very little story telling actually took place on the tour. Basically, we'd drive past a store stuck between a subway and dunkin donuts and he'd say, "so and so died here...now it's haunted," and that would be it. He even had to nerve to tell us that his last bus driver quit because he saw a ghost, and that was the end of that story. Instead of hearing stories about China Town we stopped at a chinese grocery store and he tried to get us to buy knock-off Guchi bags. Anyways, get the book if you are local to Chicago, forget the tour.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Book mediocre, tour an unbelievable rip-off.....AVOID!,
By "abones80" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Chicago's Street Guide to the Supernatural: A Guide to Haunted and Legendary Places In and Near the Windy City (Paperback)
This book presents an uninspired retread of the same stories you can get from any book on Chicago ghosts. There is really nothing new here; I would like to have seen a little more depth and research and not so much of the same tired tales I have heard since I was 8. As for the tour, my friend (almost former friend after this debacle) signed a bunch of us up. It was unequivocally the most boring, overpriced piece of tourist claptrap I have ever come across. It started out promising enough with a visit to the Biograph Theater and the death site of John Dillinger. I should have quit while I was ahead. The tour then spiraled downhill from there, eventually becoming almost comically bad (I say almost because of its ridiculously steep price). It was all over for me when we stopped at a Chinese grocery store where our "guide" obviously got some sort of kickback for parading a bunch of clueless tourists through the place. His monologue on Chinatown, which we were in for 45 minutes, was "Chinatown has a lot of ghost stories. Here is our next stop where you can buy candy and handbags." The tour was 4+ hours and, I kid you not, we heard at most 20 minutes of stories. That man should be ashamed of himself, I wish I had been mugged on the way there....I still would have lost mymoney but at least I would have saved a few hours of time. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!
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