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.
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