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About This Used To Be Chicago
Product Description “Whether you want to explore the history of your neighborhood or remember the world you knew from your youth, this book has something for all ages.” - Chicago Tribune“With This Used to Be Chicago as your guide, you may never look at Chicago the same again.” - Chicago Financial Times “Joni Hirsch Blackman has got this awesome book.” - JBTV From the Inside Flap Warning: with This Used to Be Chicago as your guide, you may never look at Chicago the same again. Every building has a past author Joni Hirsch Blackman finds the stories behind more than 90 Chicago buildings that used to be something else: the liquor store that used to be a speakeasy during Prohibition; the yacht club that used to be a ferry boat; the countless condominiums that used to be cracker, shoe, postcard or piano factories and, perhaps the most incongruous, the circus school that used to be a church. Imagine what your favorite buildings will house in another 100 years thats this book backwards! Explore your own neighborhood with a new eye, find places you remember from your youth, appreciate a new part of town youve considered only as it is now. From the Back Cover Warning: with This Used to Be Chicago as your guide, you may never look at Chicago the same again. Every building has a past author Joni Hirsch Blackman finds the stories behind more than 90 Chicago buildings that used to be something else: the liquor store that used to be a speakeasy during Prohibition; the yacht club that used to be a ferry boat; the countless condominiums that used to be cracker, shoe, postcard or piano factories and, perhaps the most incongruous, the circus school that used to be a church. Imagine what your favorite buildings will house in another 100 years that's this book backwards! Explore your own neighborhood with a new eye, find places you remember from your youth, appreciate a new part of town you've considered only as it is now. About the Author Joni Hirsch Blackman has been a wire service writer, newspaper reporter, copy editor, magazine stringer, newspaper and magazine columnist. She has written three books ... and was the editor of her high school yearbook. When not writing, she shows off the breathtaking Chicago River to tourists as a volunteer for the Chicago Architecture Foundation. The third generation of her family to be born in a Chicago hospital, Joni grew up exploring the bustling city by walking as fast as she could to keep pace with her grandmother. Those memorable outings inspired her to research the stories behind the buildings that make up the city she was born to love.
