Illinois
There are 199 books in this aisle.
Browse the aisle by Title | by Author | by Price
See recently arrived used books in this aisle.
 Used: $9.50 Trade Paper List Price $14.00 
add to wish list |
|
Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why It Often Sucks in The City, or Who Are These Idiots and Why Do
by Jen Lancaster  Publisher Comments Jen Lancaster hates to burst your happy little bubble, but life in the big city isn't all it's cracked up to be. Contrary to what you see on TV and in the movies, most urbanites aren't party-hopping in slinky dresses and strappy stilettos. But lucky for...
|
||||||
Used: $11.00 Trade Paper List Price $19.95
add to wish list |
|
Nature's Metropolis : Chicago and the Great West (91 Edition)
by William Cronon Publisher Comments In this groundbreaking work, a Yale University professor of history gives an environmental perspective on the history of 19th-century America. "No one has written about Chicago with more power, clarity, and intelligence than Cronon. Indeed, no one has...
|
||||||
Used: $8.95 Trade Paper List Price $16.95
add to wish list |
|
American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley: His Battle for Chicago and the Nation
by A Cohen Publisher Comments Now in paperback comes the story of Richard J. Daley, the last of the big city bosses, the patriarch of a political dynasty, and a major national figure in American urban politics. of photos....
|
||||||
New: $15.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
A Woman of Uncertain Character: The Amorous and Radical Adventures of My Mother Jennie (Who Always Wanted to Be a Respectable Jewish Mom) by Her Basta
by Clancy Sigal Publisher Comments A poignant and raucous memoir of a mother -- feminist, fighter against injustice, and unbridled lover -- and her madcap son....
|
||||||
Used: $9.00 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The Chicago World's Fair of 1893: A Photographic Record (Dover Architectural Series)
by Stanley Appelbaum Publisher Comments 128 rare, vintage photographs: 200 buildings -- 79 of foreign governments, 38 of U.S. states -- the original ferris wheel, first midway, Edison's kinetoscope, much more. 128 black-and-white photographs. Captions. Map. Index....
|
||||||
New: $19.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Biking Illinois: 60 Great Road Trips and Trail Rides
by David Johnsen Publisher Comments From Chicago's magnificent lakefront to the mountain trails of the Shawnee National Forest, no state has more varied terrain for the cyclist than Illinois. Large, full-detail maps guide you confidently on city streets or prairie back roads, and concise...
|
||||||
Used: $8.95 Trade Paper List Price $19.95
add to wish list |
|
The Q Guide to Classic Monster Movies
by Nelson Shay Publisher Comments They met in 1949 when Art Shay was a reporter for Life. Shay followed Nelson Algren around with a camera, gathering pictures for a photo-essay piece he was pitching to the magazine. Life didn't pick up the article, but Shay and Algren became fast friends....
|
||||||
New: $34.95 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Beneath an Open Sky: Panoramic Photographs (Visions of Illinois)
by Gary Irving Publisher Comments Pioneers once gazed in awe at the sheer majesty of the prairies sweeping across the American Midwest. Today, these smooth, even expanses seem to be meant for the dimensions of a camera's panoramic lens. On these pages a gifted photographer captures in an...
|
||||||
Used: $4.00 Trade Paper List Price $19.99
add to wish list |
|
University of Illinois at Chicago: A Pictorial History (College History)
by Fred W Beuttler Publisher Comments The University of Illinois was founded in 1867 and expanded into Chicago in the 1890s. Through time, demands for the growth of the urban campus were answered. Under the leadership of Mayor Richard J. Daley, the Circle Campus was created and located in...
|
||||||
New: $4.95 Maps
add to wish list |
|
Chicago & Vicinity Pocket Map (Travelvision City Maps)
by American Map Corp Synopsis The TravelVision line of state road and city maps covers America like nothing else. We employ a large scale that permits us to include more information, yet keep the maps uncluttered and easy-to -read. The maps feature points of interest, airports...
|
||||||
New: $39.95 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
A River Through Illinois
by Daniel Overturf Publisher Comments A River Through Illinois, an innovative collaboration by journalist Gary Marx and award-winning photographer Daniel Overturf, carries readers down the 330-mile Illinois Waterway, from the urban landscape of Chicago to the state’s most rural areas...
|
||||||
New: $14.95 Trade Paper 
available September 2008 add to wish list |
|
Grandparents Illinois Style: Places to Go & Wisdom to Share
by Mike Link Synopsis There's nothing like a grandparent-grandchild day together, but it can be hard to decide how best to spend this cherished time. Grandparents Illinois Style has the answer. The authors have selected nearly 70 of their favorite sites and activities...
|
||||||
Used: $10.50 Hardcover List Price $14.95
add to wish list |
|
City in Time: Chicago
by Ray Furse Publisher Comments How did a settlement founded in a swamp become one of the world's greatest metropolises in just 200 years? That's what happened to Chicago, and perhaps its success is best summed up in the words of Daniel Burnham, architect and city planner: ""Let your...
|
||||||
New: $22.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Chicago Metropolis of the Mid Conti 4TH Edition
by Irving Cutler Publisher Comments Chicago: Metropolis of the Mid-Continent provides a comprehensive portrayal of the growth and development of Chicago from the mudhole of the prairie to today’s world-class city. This completely revised fourth edition skillfully weaves together the...
|
||||||
Sale: $7.98 Hardcover List Price $16.95
add to wish list |
|
Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago (Crown Journeys)
by Alex Kotlowitz Publisher Comments For Kotlowitz, Chicago is the perfect perch from which to peer into America's heart. This is not so much a tour of a place as a tour of its people, a chronicle of its soul and lifeblood....
|
||||||
Used: $2.75 Trade Paper List Price $9.95
add to wish list |
|
Pink Houses and Family Taverns (Illinois)
by Becky Bradway Publisher Comments Much of what inspires Pink Houses and Family Taverns, a collection of creative nonfiction by Becky Bradway, is the author's upbringing in rural southern Illinois. Coming of age among a family of carpenters, housewives, and factory workers, Bradway works...
|
||||||
New: $21.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
The World's Columbian Exposition: the Chicago World's Fair of 1893
by Norman Bolotin Publisher Comments This exceptional chronicle takes readers on a visual tour of the glittering "white city" that emerged along the swampy south shore of Lake Michigan as a symbol of Chicago's rebirth and pride twenty-two years after the Great Fire. The World's...
|
||||||
Used: $11.95 Trade Paper List Price $18.00
add to wish list |
|
Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie
by John Mack Faragher Publisher Comments This is the fascinating story of the birth and development of a rural American community, from its origins at the turn of the century to the years that followed the Civil War....
|
||||||
New: $10.95 Trade Paper
add to wish list |
|
Chicago (Michelin Must Sees)
by Michelin Travel Publications Review Let the stars be your guide — Michelin stars that is. We've taken the shoulder-shrugging, head scratching, "gee I don't know" out of sightseeing by grouping attractions into three categories; the absolutely must sees — famous sights you should...
|
||||||
Used: $12.95 Hardcover List Price $22.00
add to wish list |
|
The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City (Chicago Visions and Revisions)
by Carl Smith Publisher Comments Arguably the most influential document in the history of urban planning, Daniel Burnham’s 1909 Plan of Chicago, coauthored by Edward Bennett and produced in collaboration with the Commercial Club of Chicago, proposed many of the city’s most...
|
||||||
