Finding Travel Books About Chicago

Travel Books About the History of Chicago

The book “City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America” by Donald L. Miller talks about the rise of Chicago from remote fur-trading outpost to a progressive, notorious, city. Miller shows how innovators Frank Lloyd Wright, and Richard Sears and Alvah Roebuck contributed to this.

Travel Books About the People of Chicago

“Lost Chicago” – a creation of David G. Lowe – bemoans the loss of the beauty that was Chicago in the past. Lowe’s stand is that many architectural wonders have been sacrificed for so-called progress. Lowe also gives us a glance at many products of Chicago (among them President Abraham Lincoln, surprisingly.)