Chicago by Day and Night: The Pleasure Seeker's Guide to the Paris of America

by Bill Savage and Harold Richard Vynne

Book Overview

Chicago by Day and Night: The Pleasure Seeker's Guide to the Paris of America is an actual guidebook to Chicago for visitors to the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. This unauthorized handbook to the rowdy city outside the elegant fairgrounds explores pleasures high and low. The theaters and music, architectural glories, parks and boulevards, churches and synagogues, and other elevated pursuits the authors included in 1893 gave the book...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810129094
• ISBN13: 9780810129092
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.6" x 7.0"