Customer Reviews

Frommer's Chicago 2005 (Frommer's Chicago)

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I tried a few recommendations from Frommers and a few from local Chicago residents. I found the book's suggestions were more accurate that the residents'!

Frommer's isn't shy about giving opinions about places (e.g. "all the restaurants in Greektown are about the same") whereas Lonely Planet & other books tend to sound objective for their restaurant reviews & end up giving the traveler no guidance at all. Beware to call all the places you want to visit though. Even though my Frommers Chicago book is current (2004), I came across 1 restaurant in the book that already closed down, and found hours to the Art Institute had already changed.

This user friendly book was a great help to us finding different places in Chicago. We went to a seminar downtown and it was very very helpful! Thank you Frommers!

It was a decent overview and has a useful tear out map for the city. I was disappointed because the map for Wrigleyville showed the Improv Olympic theather in the wrong place causing us to almost miss the show.