Chicago's Neighborhoods, Incorporated
Chicago's Books Press, an imprint of Chicago’s Neighborhoods, Inc. is an independent press that was established in 2003 and has now published numerous books about Chicago neighborhoods, downtown, North Michigan Avenue,
Lake Shore Drive, classic restaurants, and how the city developed over the decades,
as well as publications that focus on a cross-section of the city’s well-known personalities and places. The company was created by Dr. Neal Samors, who has authored, co-authored and/or published 20 books,
including the company’s five newest books:
Chicago's Classic Restaurants: Past, Present and Future, by Neal Samors and Eric Bronsky, with Bob Dauber,
Native American Trail Marker Trees: Marking Paths Through The Wilderness, by Dennis Downes,
Chicago From The Sky: A Region Transformed, by Lawrence Okrent,
Chicago's Lake Shore Drive: Urban America's Most Beautiful Roadway, by Neal Samors and Bernard Judge,
and
Never Put Ketchup On A Hot Dog, Collector's Edition, by Bob Schwartz.
Dr. Samors is a lifelong resident of Chicago who grew up on the city's Far North Side and
developed a passion for the history, neighborhoods and people of Chicago and its surrounding areas.
His books reflect a continued commitment to tell the
many stories about his hometown from its inception to the present.
Chicago's Classic Restaurants: Past, Present and Future
This book explores Chicago’s classic restaurants from pre-1900 until the present including classics like Henrici’s, Fritzels, Shangri-La, The Bakery, Le Perroquet, The Berghoff, The Pump Room,
The Cape Cod Room, The Walnut Room, and Gordon among many others.
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Native American Trail Marker Trees: Marking Paths Through The Wilderness
This book is by Dennis Downes, a renowned artist and sculptor, and focuses on the history of Native American trail marker
trees. The book is the result of the author’s lifelong passion concerning the role of trail marker trees by Native Americans
throughout their history, both pre- and post-European settlement in North America.
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Chicago From The Sky
This large format (11 x 11) book offers a 240-page pictorial history—from an aerial
perspective—of the far-reaching change that has occurred in Chicago and its region in
the span of a single generation, between 1985 and 2010. This history is presented
through more than 250 color photographs by Mr. Okrent, and a complementary selection of
maps and historic images drawn from his personal collections.
Spare, highly informative text and picture
captions serve to broaden the reader’s understanding of the period covered.
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Chicago's Lake Shore Drive, Urban America's Most Beautiful Roadway
Travel America's highways from Maine to San Diego and you'll find
almost universal agreement that no urban road compares to the
stunning beauty and charm of Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive. For
more than 19 miles it edges the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago
providing one spectacular view after another. It cuts through four
city parks, adjoins five major museums and one zoo, and is the
home address of Chicago’s cultural, business and political leaders.
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Never Put Ketchup on a Hotdog, Collector's Edition
This book is an insider's view of a love of hot dogs—
eating them, selling them, and talking about them.
First time author, Bob Schwartz, a Senior Vice
President at Vienna Beef, has spent the last third of
a century developing and enhancing strong emotions
for the business and for the people who operate hot
dog stands.
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Clark Weber's
Rock and Roll Radio
The Fun Years: 1955–1975
How many "ifs" have you had in your life? What if
I could take you back to when you were in your
teens or early twenties and didn't have a care in the
world? What if I could tell you stories about your
music and the people who made it that you've
never heard before?
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Downtown Chicago in Transition
It is like no other book about Chicago’s past and present—exploring the dynamic changes that have continuously shaped the greater Loop district from the late nineteenth century to the present time. Downtown’s evolution is vividly portrayed through historical photos interlaced with a tapestry of memories, experiences and thoughts related by interviewees such as Josephine Baskin Minow, Gary Johnson, Jerome R. Butler, James McDonough, Ann Roth, James O’Connor, Kay Mayer, Michael Demetrio, Bernard Judge, Paul Meincke, Potter Palmer IV and Marshall Field V...
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