A unique 297-page insider's budget guide to the Windy City that takes readers beyond the standard tourist grounds and highlights hundreds of free, inexpensive, and unusual things to do around town. Packed with useful information on every page, this is the perfect resource for tourists, business travelers, students, and resident Chicagoans alike.
Waterfalls in the city. Politics close up. Historic cemeteries. Architecture To Enjoy -- landmarks, churches, and oddities plus. $2 Breakfasts. $4 Lunches. $5 Dinners. Ethnic dining from Afghan to Laotian to Ukrainian. Free movies, theatre, comedy, poetry, and nightclubs. The range of recreation from archery, birdwatching, and bingo to ping pong, virtual reality, and wind surfing. Resale, flea market and outlet store shopping. City wide extravaganzas and neighborhood fests. Walking tours of luxury hotel lobbies and outdoor public art. All this and much more...
For those who want to venture into the nooks and crannies of real, every day Chicago, From someone who knows and loves this metropolis inside and out... You will not find a more indispensable handbook to America's Second City.
Review
Know More, Spend Less: A Native's Guide To Chicago offers offbeat suggestions side-by-side with more convention sightseeing information. Sharon Woodhouse provides insider information that only a well-traveled resident could dig up. Know More, Spend Less is a look at the Windy City well beyond the standards of ordinary tourist guides with its listing of hundreds of free and inexpensive things to do and see off the "beaten path" of most tourist travel groups or itineraries. Know More, Spend Less also encourages people watching at the airport, gives practical advice on public transportation, takes jaunts to historic cemeteries, hidden waterfalls, and the city council chambers. Know More, Spend Less is a "midwest traveler's must have"! -- Midwest Book Review
